Numbers problem

Hi, Intermediate Japanese learner here who still stumbles over both recognition and recall of numbers (especially large numbers) in the wild, especially in speech. Does anyone have any tips?

I am making an anki deck with general numbers I encounter at work etc, for both recognition and recall, but it is not really working for me yet.

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  1. I had troubles with large numbers until I moved to Japan and started using Japanese currency. Then after I had actually used ¥1,000 and ¥10,000 notes in transactions, I began to envision them when I thought of large numbers. For example, if I needed to say “50,000” I’d think to myself “ok, 1万 is a ¥10,000 note, so 5万 is just 5 of these, so it would be “ごまん”

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