Oh fun fact about the Japanese language, counting is difficult to pick up

Like to start with there are two different sets of numeral words, one Sinitic and one from Japanese/Korean roots

But past that each class of thing to be counted has its own counting word that you have to learn and use separately

Like you don’t say “I want two newspapers”, you say “I want newspapers in the amount of two 「sets of bound papers」”

It is incredibly tedious, learning all this shit. And it’s ambiguous as hell! The professor that ran my Japanese lectures, his research involved going to a McDonalds in Japan, posting up against the back wall, and tracking how many people ordered hamburgers in terms of 「general things」, 「meal courses」, 「flat objects」, 「small circular objects」, etc.