Numbers
In Chinese, the words we use for numbers are simply the combination of one to ten, hundreds, thousands and so on.
There are no "eleven" or "twelve" that makes things complicated. Plus, each word only has one syllable making it even
more easy to remember.
yi er san si wu liu chi ba jiu shi
一二三四五六七八九十
Above is number one to ten. To move on just add say the number as how it looks like a roman numeral.
So it will sound something like this:
11 50 98 76 33
十一 五十 九十八 七十六 三十三
Now when it comes to hundreds or above, its about the same, but only three variations.
First of all, hundred is 百 (bai). So some numbers in the hundreds will be see as:
一百 三百五十 七百二十三
So about the variations, first of them is 2s. When we put twos in the hundreds or above, they change into a different word: 兩 (liang)
Examples will be: 兩百二十 兩百九十三
Second variation: 1s. When English we say one hundred and ten, in Chinese we don't use the "and", we say "one".
Here is how it works:
一百一十
Last variation is the zeros. Like the 1s, in Chinese we don't say one hundred and three, we say one hundred zero three (just like how the roman numerals looks like: 103). Zero in Chinese is 零 (ling).
So one hundred "zero " three will look like this: 一百零三