It's real hard to learn numbering in Japanese.

I am learning Japanese and i have realized it too. Counting number in Japanese is very difficult. You have to remember many pronouciations coz it seems most pronounciations of the numbers in Japanese are not regular. It's a difficult job to remember it. what's more, even you can remember it, you still get problem in distinguishing it.

hmmmm...i think its just as difficult as English. I mean when you read it on English its three hundred thirty-three. and its even longer in Tagalog. hehe! i think its not even hard to remember it. of course you have to memorize hundred=hyaku, 3=san, 10=jyuu.same as you're memorizing this same in Mandarin. they just change h to b because they can't really pronounce san with hyaku, so san byaku. just like in mandarin de becomes du in pronouncing.

Not to mention the many counters that they put after the on yomi of numbers like: wa for birds-ichi wa; ni wa; san wa. hon for anything long-ippon; nihon; sanbon. mai for thin sheets like paper-ichi mai; ni mai; san mai. Anyway, I still want to learn more of the language.

I will say for every new language we learn, there are bound to be some difficulties in learning as we are not familiar with the language. Once we are familiar with them, we will not find that difficult. Well, give yourself some time to practice using it, as you had just learnt the numbers yesterday only. You will find them easier in no time. By the way, 333 in Mandarin is San Bai San Shi San. San Bai San means 303 in Mandarin.

Its not san bai san for 333. San bai san is 303. 333 in chinese is san bai san shi san. Anyway, if u learning numbers in japanese, just remember the patterns. Ichi, ni, san, yon/shi, go ,roku, nana/shichi, hachi, kyu/ku, ju, ju ichi, ju ni etc. 100 is hyaku, 1,000 is sen, and 10,000 is man. So 35,645 is sanman gosen roppyaku yonju go. Pretty long, but its cool. Like chinese, learning number in japanese need practice. I hope this helps.

Well think about it... San byaku san jyuu san - that's 6 syllables (not counting stretching syllable for jyuu) for 333. Three hundred and thirty three - that's 7 syllables in English. So it's shorter than English... And in Mandarin, it's actually: san bai san shi san - which is 5 syllables, only one less than Japanese. Wait until you start having to learn all the counters.... that's the worst bit.

i think they are equally difficult... since i'm not used to it..but when u learn the pattern you can learn to count numbers in japanese.. like hyaku is 100 and san is 3 so sanbyaku is 300.. sometimes, they change some letters for convenient of speaking..like sanbyaku which is more easy to say than sanhyaku..