Learn foreign numbers.
A simple tool to improve the listening comprehension of numbers in your foreign language.
“After 30 minutes, my ability to understand German numbers skyrocketed.”
248 ratings on the App Store
You can practice listening to:
Cardinal Numbers
Ordinal Numbers
Phone Numbers
Telling the Time
Hoşgeldiniz! I am currently trying to learn Turkish and one challenge I have is quickly understanding numbers when someone says them quickly. In stores and markets, quickly recognizing numbers is an important skill.
I found that even though I "knew" all the numbers, I was not able to quickly understand them when they were spoken. So I set out to create a tool to let me practice. Thus Foreign Numbers was born.
It has one simple purpose: to help you become fluent in number comprehension.
Why focus on numbers?
- Numbers are everywhere and getting them exactly right is very important! Whether it is at the market, with your friends, or at the tax office; catching the difference between 4, 40, and 400 can prevent a costly mistake!
- Numbers serve as a good tool to improve listening comprehension. Since learning the numbers themselves is pretty easy, they are easily used to train yourself to quickly hear and recognize words you already know.
What Learners Say
Helpful way to practice an important skill!
“I've learned 4 foreign languages as an adult, but I've always found numbers to be one of the toughest nuts to crack. After about 30 minutes worth of playing with it, my ability to accurately understand those "backward" German numbers skyrocketed and they were no longer a problem!”
junoba57 — Canada Learning German & Hungarian
Exactly what I needed
“I was looking for this exact kind of app, but didn't think it would exist. I'm so glad it does! Learning numbers and being able to understand it when natives tell you a big number at full speed, is a completely different game. This app is perfect to train our number listening skills.”
Thibaud Chaumard — France Learning Spanish
Amazing learning app
“I've been looking for ways to practice my Japanese numbers listening skills and finally found this which has been so helpful. It's a simple app but super effective in strengthening your speed.”
Nekowakowai — New Zealand Learning Japanese
Brilliant app!
“It's so important to get practice listening to numbers in a language you're studying but resources are few. I love this app, it is so useful.”
kalinkapost — United Kingdom Learning Russian
Helps to Master the Numbers!
“I am having a hard time with learning French numbers. But luckily I have improved greatly with just 15 minutes a day for 1-2 weeks!”
WaRaWh — United States Learning French
Best way to learn numbers
“This is an essential tool for anyone learning a foreign language. I use it for Mandarin Chinese and it works great. Most importantly, numbers are very often encountered in the real world as lightning-fast spoken prices, times, and phone numbers.”
Sven979 — United States Learning Mandarin Chinese
Count in 26 Languages
Arabic
7 = سبعة (sabʿa)
Arabic uses its own set of Eastern Arabic numerals (٠١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩), which are the ancestors of the Western digits used...
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Chinese
7 = 七
Chinese uses two sets of characters for numbers: simple (小写) for everyday use and complex (大写) for financial documents....
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Czech
7 = sedm
Czech numbers interact with grammar in complex ways. The numbers one and two have gendered forms — jeden/jedna/jedno...
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Danish
7 = syv
Danish has one of the most unusual counting systems in Europe, using a vigesimal (base-20) system inherited from the...
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Dutch
7 = zeven
Like German, Dutch places the ones digit before the tens — so 24 is vierentwintig ("four-and-twenty"). English once...
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English
7 = seven
English numbers are mostly regular, but "eleven" and "twelve" stand out as oddities. They come from Old English words...
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Finnish
7 = seitsemän
As an agglutinative language, Finnish builds number words by stacking suffixes together. Tens are formed by adding...
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French
7 = sept
French counting famously mixes base-10 and base-20 (vigesimal) systems, a legacy of the Celtic peoples who once...
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German
7 = sieben
German places the ones digit before the tens in compound numbers — 25 is fünfundzwanzig ("five-and-twenty"). This...
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Greek
7 = επτά (eptá)
Ancient Greeks assigned numerical values to each letter of their alphabet — a system still used today for ordinals and...
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Hebrew
7 = שִׁבְעָה (shiv'a)
Hebrew traditionally represents numbers using letters of its alphabet — aleph (א) for 1, bet (ב) for 2, and so on...
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Hindi
Hindi uses Devanagari numerals (०१२३४५६७८९), the direct ancestors of the Western digits the world uses today — what we...
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Hungarian
7 = hét
Hungarian, a Uralic language unrelated to its Indo-European neighbors, has a logical and recursive decimal number...
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Indonesian
7 = tujuh
Indonesian has one of the simplest and most regular number systems in the world. Once you learn the digits 1–10, larger...
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Italian
7 = sette
Italian teens have a quirky split: 11–16 end with -dici (undici, dodici...) but 17–19 flip the order and start with...
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Japanese
7 = 七 (shichi/nana)
Japanese uses two parallel number systems: Sino-Japanese numbers (borrowed from Chinese over a thousand years ago) and...
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Korean
7 = 칠 (chil)
Korean has two complete number systems used in daily life: Sino-Korean (from Chinese characters) for dates, money, and...
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Norwegian
7 = sju / syv
Norwegian (Bokmål) has a straightforward decimal counting system, but with a few twists. The number "one" has two forms...
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Polish
7 = siedem
Polish numbers are among the most grammatically complex in Europe. They must agree in gender and case with the nouns...
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Portuguese
7 = sete
Portuguese numbers have gendered forms — um/uma (one) and dois/duas (two) — and the hundreds also change to match:...
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Romanian
7 = șapte
Romanian is the only Romance language that forms its teens with the word spre ("towards") — so 15 is cincisprezece,...
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Russian
7 = семь (semʹ)
Russian numbers decline through six grammatical cases and interact with nouns in complex ways: after 1, the noun is...
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Spanish
7 = siete
Spanish numbers 0–15 each have unique names that must be memorized, but from 16 onward the system becomes predictable:...
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Swedish
7 = sju
Swedish numbers follow a clean decimal pattern, but "one" comes in two forms — en (common gender) and ett (neuter...
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Thai
7 = เจ็ด (jèt)
Thai has its own set of numerals (๐๑๒๓๔๕๖๗๘๙) that follow the Hindu-Arabic positional system. While Arabic digits are...
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Turkish
7 = yedi
Turkish numbers are beautifully logical and consistent, reflecting the language's agglutinative nature. Compound...
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