[Nagoyankee]

The significance is greater than what anyone will tell you, trust me.

In English and many other languages, you count just about anything the same way.

5 apples, 5 pensils, 5 cars, etc...

In Japanese, this doen't work. You need to use the counter to count anything, and the counters change depending on what you're counting.

Before I go on, let me ask if you can read hiragana. I hate to explain things using romaji.