Count from 0 to 10
In Aikido we count
1 ichi - 2 ni - 3 san - 4 shi - 5 go - 6 roku - 7 shichi - 8 hachi - 9 ku - 10 ju
合気道の日本語
We also count in Japanese.
In Aikido we count
1 ichi - 2 ni - 3 san - 4 shi - 5 go - 6 roku - 7 shichi - 8 hachi - 9 ku - 10 ju
Attention: the consonants are pronounced as in English, the vowels as in Italian.
Counting in Japanese the fingers are closed.
the Kanji, the Hiragana and the Katakana.
Hiragana and Katakana are two phonetic syllabic alphabets.
Katakana is commonly used to transcribe words of non-Japanese origin, for the scientific names of plants and animals, for the transcription of sounds and to emphasize some words.
Hiragana is used for everything else, such as the conjugation of verbs and the suffixes of words.
The kanji are the most complex part of Japanese writing, they originate from China and are several thousand of which around 1800 are the most commonly used.
In addition to these three systems of writing there is a fourth, rōmaji, which literally means "Roman characters".
Further explanations can be found at toitsu.de