Maruhi Academy: Counting with Measuring Words

[@Kaihatsu]

畳 is still used for floor measurements. When I was apartment hunting in Japan all of the floorplans I looked at usually measured the floor space in 畳.

[@MildlyUseless]

Greate video

[@BAMB00STE]

Thanks for these magnificent videos. I will now continue to bing all of them and then eagerly wait for more

[@aizuni]

I swear Japanese is the most random language

[@athdot]

I don't know how native English speakers learn Japanese, I started learning Latin and at least that is still PIE, but it makes me in awe of people who learn Japanese

[@maruhigakuen]

I won't quit until every single last one of you guys are at least familiar with Japanese

[@debilista]

In euro languages there are sort of similar archaic ways of counting like in japanese in this video. Though the 'extension word' after the number is entirely optional, used only to signify what specifically is being counted without having to explain everything from the beginning many times. Most cases are so obvious that they dropped it entirely though. If i remember correctly even bible in the Book of Numbers counted people of israel as 'heads' or wherever i found it. Bunches of items like many flowers tied together - have a name for their collective. Ive heard it used in my language a few times because if you collect flowers it might be confusing if you got 10 flowers or 10 bunches of flowers especially when they are hard to find. And cows were counted as heads too. If you hunted you could say that you got x "tongues" of an animal. That is because every animal has a tongue and it was used as a proof of hunting -because tongues were easy to cut out and each animal had only one tongue.

[@olivem.6944]

This is miserable, thanks for explaining 👍

[@marcocrescenzi1387]

粒😮

[@Loveflowerh]

Great video. Very concise and accurate

[@marcocrescenzi1387]

一軒家😊

[@willthompson8209]

Bump

[@hiramzaldana153]

lol 畳(or 帖) is still used to measure the square footages of rooms

[@apophis2504]

How about making a video on japanese myth and religion

[@itsyaboi1245]

I think instead of calling this smile and joy numbers we should call them pain and suffering numbers

[@jamesslag_]

So much info in a 6 minute video 😂

[@alexpaw3493]

Yas, more obscure shit

[@elijahjflowers]

why did you call it joy & smile #s ; you lost me by using arbitrary descriptors