Learn how to count to ten, along with the Chinese characters. We'll also look at zero.
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Count To 10 - 0:11
Count To 8 - 1:05
7, 8 - 1:34
Count To 8 - 1:48
7 - 3:05
8 - 3:09
5 - 3:14
6 - 3:18
8 - 3:22
7 - 3:26
Count To 10 - 3:34
9, 10 - 4:09
7, 8, 9, 10 - 4:45
9 - 5:08
Zhōu Jiǔ - 5:22
G O - 5:37
Jiǔ - 5:46
10 - 6:05
Count To 10 - 6:20
One-zero - 7:57
Zero - 8:10
Rising Tone Numbers - 8:20
Zero - 8:24

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║ Credits
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Producer - Fame Ketover

Writers - John Harvey, Lucille Barale, Roberta Barry, Thomas Madden, Susan Pola

Script Supervisor - Fame Ketover

Chinese Speakers - Chuan Chao, Ying-chih Chen, Hsiao-jung Chen, Eva Diao, Jan Hu, Tsung-mi Li, Yunhui Yang

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Partial transcript
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Hi, I'm Fame Ketover of Lenguin.com and this is Mandarin Chinese. So now we're going to learn how to count all the way to ten. So that you can really impress your friends.
Listen to the speaker count to 10.
yī
èr
sān
sì
wǔ
liù
qī
bā
jiǔ
shí

Again, a bit faster.
yī
èr
sān
sì
wǔ
liù
qī
bā
jiǔ
shí

Listen to the speaker count to 8.
yī
èr
sān
sì
wǔ
liù
qī
bā

Repeat after the speaker by pairs.
yī
èr
sān
sì
wǔ
liù
qī
bā

Try saying "7, 8".
qī
bā
qī
bā

Both are in the high tone.
Try counting to 8 by pairs ahead of the speaker.
yī
èr
sān
sì
wǔ
liù
qī
bā

Try counting to 8 alone and repeat.
yī
èr
sān
sì
wǔ
liù
qī
bā

Give the odd numbers so far: 1, 3, 5, 7 and repeat.
yī
sān
wǔ
qī

Give the even numbers so far: 2, 4, 6, 8 and repeat.
èr
sì
liù
bā

What's 7?
qī

What's 8?
bā

What's 5?
wǔ

What's 6?
liù

What's 8 again?
bā

What's 7 again?
qī

Alright, you're getting pretty good at this.
Now listen to the speaker count to ten.
yī
èr
sān
sì
wǔ
liù
qī
bā
jiǔ
shí

Repeat after the speaker by pairs.
yī
èr
sān
sì
wǔ
liù
qī
bā
jiǔ
shí

Try saying "9, 10".
jiǔ
shí
jiǔ
shí

9 is in the low tone. What other number have you had in the low tone? wǔ 10 is the first number you've had in the rising tone.
Repeat "9, 10" after the speaker, concentrating on getting the tones right.
jiǔ
shí
jiǔ
shí

Say, "7, 8, 9, 10" ahead of the speaker and then repeat.
qī
bā
jiǔ
shí

Notice that the Pinyin for the number 9 is abbreviated, leaving out the O which is clearly present in the pronunciation.
Listen.
jiǔ
jiǔ