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Y: Perfect Chinese your way, in only five minutes a day. Welcome to Chinese Studio.     I'm Yajie.
C: It's good to be back.I'm Cam.Ni hao Yajie.
Y: Ni hao!Today we'll learn more numbers. Before continuing with more numbers this     time, let's first review what we learned during the last two lessons, 'cause what we     are going to learn this time has an intimate relationship with them.
C: Well, during the last two lessons we learned how to say the numbers from 1 to 10     in Chinese.
Y: Cam, could you please have a try to speak them out?
C: Ok. No problem. From 1 to five they are yī èr sān sìwǔ. Right?
Y: Exactly.Then what about those from six to ten ?
C: They are liù qī bā jiǔ shí.
Y: Great! Then we'll learn more numbers. First let's check our key words of the day!

Key words of the day
Today we'll learn more numbers from 11 to 100. 11. 14. 16.
C: Wow, that sounds challenging.Let's get started!
Y: Ok.The numbers from 10 to 20 are very easy. 10 is shí. We learned it during the last time.The pronunciation of 10 is similar to "sh" of the English word "shield". The second tone,10 (shí).11 is shi yi,12 is shí èr, and so on.
C: shí yī, shí èr.
Y: Right! And 14 is?
C: shísì.
Y: And 16 is?
C: shí liù.
Y: you got it.In Chinese, double digit numbers are said the same way from 20 onwards.20 is er shi. Literally, 2 and 10.Thirty is san shi.33 is san shi san.
C: sān shí sān
Y: 32 is san shi er.
C: sān shí èr.
Y: And 85 is bā shíwǔ.
C: bā shíwǔ.

Y: Last time we learned how to say "10 books" in Chinese? Do you still remember     that, Cam?
C: Yes, it's shí běn shū. Ben is a measure word, and Shu means book.That's easy!     So I can say" Wo you er shi san ben shu", I have 23 books.
Y: Wo you er shi san ben shu.There is an important verb in the sentence.It's "you".     Here "you" express possession. Wo you, Wo, I. you, have.
   Yeah, and also "Wo er shi san sui"."wo" is I , and "suì" means year. So "Wo er shi    san sui","I'm 23 years old".

Key words reminder

19 is shíjiǔ, 47 is sìshíqī, 82 is bāshí’èr and 100 is yìbǎi.
And also Wo er shi wu sui, Wo san shi yi sui.

C: Then what about 100?
Y: It's yì bǎi。
C: yìbǎi. My grandfather is yìbǎi suì.
Y: Really?
C: haha, I'm joking!
Y: Well, that's it for today. Don't forget you can win a gift by answering the question of the day in Chinese: From one to one hundred what's your favorite number?