The tenners in German are pretty easy as well. Take a look:

20 - zwan.zig

30 - drei.ßig (there's always one that wants to be different)

40 - vier.zig

50 - fünf.zig

60 - sech.zig (lost the -s again)

70 - sieb.zig (lost the -en again)

80 - acht.zig

90 - neun.zig

100 - hund.ert (looks like hund.red, just nicer :P)

1000 - tausend (looks pretty much like thousand if you ask me)

I hope you see that intead of -ty in EN we use -zig in DE:

twen.ty = zwan.zig and that's about everything you need to remember.

Pronunciation wise you'll struggle with "sech.zig" but if you remember the pronunciation of "ich", you should get this right soon enough.

Preaching Practice

You know the drill by now:

20

30 (remember the ß)

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

1000

That's it for now with the German numbers. I'll add a review to this course at a later stage. Whenever you come across a number in real life, think that number or ideally speak it out loud. And every now and then just count up and down (!) - the down counting makes it more memorable - in front of Speechnotes or use the dictation feature of your phone.

If the text Speechnotes transcribed is different by a lot from the transcription below, don't worry about it. You will do this a couple more times and you will see an improvement. If Speechnotes doesn't understand you, try to speak slowly, more articulated and use an external microphone e.g. a headset.