ichiran

Yes, they are different from English. In English you say "one herd of cattle", "two herds of cattle", and so on. You just need to know a plural of "herd" and the regular numbers. In Japanese the numbers themselves depend on the counter. You can't say "one day", "two days", "three days". You can only say "one day (ichinichi)", "foobar (futsuka)", "bazbar (mikka)", and so on. And this counting system is used pretty much only for days. Except similar words to "foo" and "baz" here are also used to count some things. But not the others. Also the rules of combining a numeral and the counter are very inconsistent. Here's my implementation of Japanese counters, suffices to say the English version would be like 5 lines of code: https://github.com/tshatrov/ichiran/blob/master/dict-counter... And here's the pronounciation generator for so called "r