Kazoekata: Japanese Counters

Japanese counting is not a number stuck onto a noun. Three books is 三冊, three cats is 三匹, three long thin things is 三本 – and 本 does not even sound the same at three as it does at six. Kazoekata teaches the part that actually takes time: not the list of counters, but how they behave. THREE SKILLS, MEASURED SEPARATELY Knowing that books take 冊 is one thing. Saying 八冊 without stopping is another. Hearing ろっぷん and knowing it means six minutes is a third. Most apps average these into one number per counter. This one keeps them apart, because that is where the useful sentence lives: 本 Counter choice 95 % Reading 61 % After that you know what to open. After "本 78 %" you know nothing. THE PATTERN, NOT THE FLASHCARD 一本 いっぽん, 三本 さんぼん, 六本 ろっぽん are not three unrelated facts. One, six, eight and ten cut the number short and turn h into p; three voices it. That is one rule with three faces, and after…