I’ve been studying japanese for the past 2 years, tried N3 last month, and I’m currently preparing for N2. The problem is that I have a really bad time when it comes to recognizing numbers in a speech. It’s pretty easy to understand 1,2,3…10 but that’s it, I struggle with bigger numbers and unless I don’t repeat the audio 3 times I can’t understand what number they’re saying. I’m constantly listening to japanese content and I’ve even tried videos that are specifically made for number recognition training, but it doesn’t work.
What should I do?
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You can practice by doing simple maths questions in japanese
I heard good things about the Numbiro app, check out their advertisement [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/comments/tdvs4t/i_made_an_app_called_numbiro_for_practising/)
I bookmarked a number listening practice site mentioned a few months ago here which has large number ranges also.
[https://langpractice.com/japanese/](https://langpractice.com/japanese/)
I wonder if you’re only focusing on listening and not speaking. The suggestion for maths questions is a great one, but beyond that, if you have lessons or a learning buddy, why not try talking about something with numbers, like sports, the stock market, COVID trends, whatever you can? Force your brain to come up with the pronounciation in the middle of a conversation.
When you learn in a single context, you can only remember in that context. You’ve gotta learn multiple different ways so you have a bunch of ‘threads’ in your brain to that nugget of knowledge.
I find this too. I don’t translate words in my head but I still do with numbers, and the conversation has moved on by the time I figure it out. Also 万 and currency conversion on top of this I am lost lol