Learn to Count in Chinese

I have a few minutes before class so I will teach you all how to count in Chinese. If you can learn one through ten, you can easily learn one through one hundred. Here goes, with the number, the Chinese pinyin, and how it sounds in English...
(1) yi (sounds like E)
(2) er (sounds like R)
(3) san (sounds like san in Santa Maria)
(4) si (sounds more like su; say the wo in woman, but put a s in the place of the w).
(5) wu (sounds like it looks, like in woo-hoo)
(6) liu (sounds like Lee-you)
(7) qi (sounds like chee in cheese)
(8) ba (like a sheep says)
(9) jiu (sounds like gee-oo (like in oops))
(10) shi (sounds like the word sure).
So there are numbers one through ten: yi, er, san, si, wu, liu, qi, ba, jiu, shi.
If you can learn these, it is easy to move on, because the Chinese do not have any new words for the teens or words like twenty, thirty, forty, etc. All they do is combine these ten characters to make a larger number. For instance, the next number, 11, is shi yi (which is basically 10-1). Twelve is shi er (10-2). Thirteen is shi san (10-3). And so on up to nineteen: shi jiu (10-9).
The next number is twenty. In Chinese, twenty is er shi (pronounced R-sure). This means 2-10. The next number is 21, which is er shi yi (pronounced R-sure-E). So on and so forth. Thirty is san-shi (3-10), pronounced san-sure. If you can understand and follow this pattern, it goes all of the way up.
So quiz yourself:
What is
1. 37
2. 55
3. 28
4. 79
5. 83
Answers:
1. san shi qi (3-10-7), pronounced san-sure-chee;
2. wu shi wu (5-10-5), pronounced woo-sure-woo;
3. er shi ba (2-10-8), pronounced R-sure-ba;
4. qi shi jiu (7-10-9), pronounced chee-sure-G-you;
5. ba shi san (8-10-3), pronounced ba-sure-san.

This goes to 99, jiu shi jiu. One hundred is yi bai (pronounced E-buy). One hundred one is yi bai yi. One hundred eleven is yi bai yi shi yi. Nine hundred is jiu bai.
So even though I said that you should be able to count to 100, you should actually be able to count to 999 (jiu bai jiu shi jiu).

Time for class. Here is a quick picture of me trying to watch television.