Life & fun · February 27, 2017
Master Numbers in a Foreign Language
Practice listening to numbers, phone numbers, and times in 26+ languages including Spanish, French, Japanese, and Chinese. Train with region-specific pronunciation, adjustable speed, and real-world number comprehension exercises.
Master Numbers in a Foreign Language launched on February 27, 2017 with 112 votes, #353 of 3,156 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.
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Master Numbers in a Foreign Language is a listening comprehension tool for practicing numbers, phone numbers, and times across 26+ languages including Spanish, French, Japanese, and Chinese. The tool offers adjustable playback speed and region-specific pronunciation to help learners recognize spoken numbers from zero to over one million, as well as ordinal numbers. It's designed for language students who need to understand everyday situations like market prices, addresses, phone numbers, and directions in their target language.
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A simple tool to improve the listening comprehension of numbers in your foreign language. “After 30 minutes, my ability to understand German numbers skyrocketed .” Practice hearing and recognizing spoken numbers from 0 to over 1,000,000. Build the speed you need to understand prices at markets, addresses, quantities, and everyday math in your target language. Train your ear for positional numbers like 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. Ordinal numbers come up constantly when discussing dates, floor numbers, rankings, and directions in a foreign language. Phone numbers are spoken differently in every language. In French, digits are grouped in pairs. In Japanese, specific grouping patterns are…from foreignnumbers.com
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