Memorizing Cardinal Numbers

• 1). Look at your reference and find the translation for the numbers 1 through 30. Repeat the Spanish words for these numbers until you can confidently recite them without looking at the words. Take a 10-minute break and try reciting them again to make sure they're memorized. Memorizing them in chunks of 10 may be easier.
  
  
• 2). Look for translations of the numbers by 10s from 30 to 100 (30, 40, 50 and so on). You will notice that 31 in Spanish is literally "thirty and one," or "treinta y uno." Similarly, 99 is pronounced "noventa y nueve." Spanish numbers through 119 all follow this logic, so knowing the cardinal numbers makes learning the rest much easier.
  
  
• 3). Notice how numbers higher than 119 follow a similar logic. In English, the translation of 146 is "one hundred forty-six," in Spanish "ciento cuarenta y siete." Notice that although 100 is "cien," the numbers 101 through 199 use "cieto."
  
  
• 4). Learn how to translate 1,000 into Spanish, which is "mil." Similarly, 2,000 is "dos mil" and 3,000 is "tres mil."
  
  
• 5). Repeat and relearn steps one through four as often as needed to fully understand the way Spanish numbers are written. Pay close attention to the underlying logic instead of just the numbers. This will make learning higher numbers easier.