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N5 numbers & time数と時間

Counting things and people, dates, months, the time, and the counters with sound changes (いっぽん, さんびき, ろっかい…). Forms from JMdict, and for the counters JMdict barely lists, from Wiktionary's counters appendix. The first chapter is free.

What you'll learn

  • ひとつ一つone
  • ふたつ二つtwo
  • みっつ三つthree
  • よっつ四つfour; 4
  • いつつ五つfive
  • むっつ六つsix

From the free chapters. Word and kanji data: JMdict and KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA); sentences: Tatoeba (CC BY). Sources

14 chapters

learn: new items, a round of up to 10 at a time, until each is right.

  1. 第1話Things (ひとつ, ふたつ…) · 9 wordslearnFREE
  2. 第2話People (ひとり, ふたり…) · 10 wordslearnMEMBER
  3. 第3話Months · 12 wordslearnMEMBER
  4. 第4話Dates (ついたち, ふつか…) · 13 wordslearnMEMBER
  5. 第5話O'clock · 12 wordslearnMEMBER
  6. 第6話Minutes · 10 wordslearnMEMBER
  7. 第7話Long things (〜本) · 10 wordslearnMEMBER
  8. 第8話Age (〜歳) · 11 wordslearnMEMBER
  9. 第9話Small animals (〜匹) · 10 wordslearnMEMBER
  10. 第10話Cups and glasses (〜杯) · 10 wordslearnMEMBER
  11. 第11話Small objects (〜個) · 10 wordslearnMEMBER
  12. 第12話How many times (〜回) · 10 wordslearnMEMBER
  13. 第13話Books (〜冊) · 10 wordslearnMEMBER
  14. 第14話Flat things (〜枚) · 10 wordslearnMEMBER