I've always had trouble with being able to say high numbers in Chinese especially past 10,000. The English language, of course, groups its numbers by sets of three digits, separating thousands from millions, billions, trillions, etc. Not until last week when Evangelina and I were reviewing facts about Taiwan from Operation World (2010) did I realize that Chinese numbers are grouped by four digits, so that Taiwan's projected 2020 population 24,437,503 is literally translated "two thousand four hundred forty three TEN THOUSANDS, seven thousand five hundred three." The number in Chinese seemed to strike Evangelina as a kind of poem, so that even now she remembers it!
