One of the most difficult things to master in a foreign language: cases where the target language uses multiple words (subcategories) for a concept for which your previous languages only have one word. You're simply not used to parse reality into these new subcategories.
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Sanbon biru anegaishimasu!
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For beer it's actually sanhai (counter for drinks)
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Similar with Chinese, bird, fish, land animal, even plants...
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Or birds are a type of bunnies
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Personally, the cases that I find more interesting are those where the native speaker chose the wrong classifier for the counted object. It looks like a demonstration of prototype theory
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