Name: Talking About the Date and Time in Japanese
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01. The History of the Japanese Calendar
02. Japanese language course for you. "What time is it now?" (Source: Aphiwat Chuangchoem) This is how you’d ask that question: “ima nanji desu ka?” (今何時ですか) . In this sentence, “desu ka” indicates that we’re asking a question. The kanji “何” (nani) can be translated to mean “what” while the “時” refers to the hour or time. For example, if you wanted to say that it was five in the morning, you’d say “ima wa gozen goji desu” (今は午前 5時). While the numbers here are written using Arabic numerals, if you really want to learn Japanese, you should learn the kanji for numbers since they can use both systems in Japan. After all, if you ask a person what the time is in Tokyo, they’ll tell you the answer in Japanese rather than showing you the time with the numbers we're used to. Therefore improving your proficiency for speaking Japanese is essential if you are thinking about living in Japan. Remember. 分 is the kanji for minutes. 時 (ji) is the kanji for hours. Just like learning some expressions relating to greetings and how to introduce yourself, learning how to tell the time will be useful right from the get-go, as it will likely feature in any Japanese conversation that you ever have, Japanese classes London" to learn more about timekeeping in Japan! The 12 Months of the Year in Japanese If you’re going to be telling the time and saying the dates in Japanese, you’re going to have to learn the months of the year. Before you go to Japan, you should learn how to ask what the date and time is. (Source: pixabay.com) English Rōmaji Hiragana Kanji January ichigatsu いちがつ一月 February nigatsu にがつ二月 March sangatsu さんがつ三月 April shigatsu しがつ四月 May gogatsu ごがつ五月 June rokugatsu ろくがつ六月 July shichigatsu しちがつ七月 August hachigatsu はちがつ八月 September kugatsu くがつ九月 October jūgatsu じゅうがつ十月 November jūichigatsu じゅういちがつ十一月 December jūnigatsu じゅうにがつ十二月 Note that April can also be called “yongatsu”, July “nanagatsu”, and September “kyugatsu”. February can also be written as: 如月. It’s interesting to note that the months in Japanese also have a translation dating back to the calendar used before 1873. Nevertheless, these are not currently used and are only found in poetic texts. It should be noted that they’re largely literal translations, too. For example, January (known traditionally as 睦月) would be translated as the “month of friendship”. In Japanese grammar, there are several suffixes used when counting which are somewhat different to the way we count in English. Thus, you can’t use the same suffix when counting people as when counting cylindrical objects or pills. Fortunately, this rule doesn’t apply to counting the months. You can use “getsu” for counting months. Like this: One month = ikkagetsu Two months = nikagetsu Three months = sankagetsu Four months = yonkagetsu Five months = gokagetsu Six months = rokkagetsu Seven months = nanakagetsu Eight months = nikagetsu Nine months = kyuukagetsu Ten months = jukkagetsu Eleven months = juuichikagetsu Twelve months = juunikagetsu One Last Thing About Years When we talk about a year, we use the kanji 年. As we saw earlier, the Japanese use the Gregorian calendar. However, there’s one thing you should note about how they use it: they use dates according to the current emperor. This means that we’re currently in the 29th year of Heisei 平成 which started on January 7, 1989 when the reign of Akihito ended. Each emperor gets their own era. Thus, according to the Japanese calender, it’s 平成２９年, which means the Heisei 29. With such beautiful places to visit, learning Japanese is a great idea. (Source: pixabay.com) “Gengou Free” is a mobile app you can use to convert Japanese dates to Gregorian dates. This can be really useful if you find yourself talking to Japanese natives who express the date in this way. Japanese lessons online to be found in towns and cities across the world.
03. Japanese classes London" to learn more about timekeeping in Japan! The 12 Months of the Year in Japanese If you’re going to be telling the time and saying the dates in Japanese, you’re going to have to learn the months of the year. Before you go to Japan, you should learn how to ask what the date and time is. (Source: pixabay.com) English Rōmaji Hiragana Kanji January ichigatsu いちがつ一月 February nigatsu にがつ二月 March sangatsu さんがつ三月 April shigatsu しがつ四月 May gogatsu ごがつ五月 June rokugatsu ろくがつ六月 July shichigatsu しちがつ七月 August hachigatsu はちがつ八月 September kugatsu くがつ九月 October jūgatsu じゅうがつ十月 November jūichigatsu じゅういちがつ十一月 December jūnigatsu じゅうにがつ十二月 Note that April can also be called “yongatsu”, July “nanagatsu”, and September “kyugatsu”. February can also be written as: 如月. It’s interesting to note that the months in Japanese also have a translation dating back to the calendar used before 1873. Nevertheless, these are not currently used and are only found in poetic texts. It should be noted that they’re largely literal translations, too. For example, January (known traditionally as 睦月) would be translated as the “month of friendship”. In Japanese grammar, there are several suffixes used when counting which are somewhat different to the way we count in English. Thus, you can’t use the same suffix when counting people as when counting cylindrical objects or pills. Fortunately, this rule doesn’t apply to counting the months. You can use “getsu” for counting months. Like this: One month = ikkagetsu Two months = nikagetsu Three months = sankagetsu Four months = yonkagetsu Five months = gokagetsu Six months = rokkagetsu Seven months = nanakagetsu Eight months = nikagetsu Nine months = kyuukagetsu Ten months = jukkagetsu Eleven months = juuichikagetsu Twelve months = juunikagetsu One Last Thing About Years When we talk about a year, we use the kanji 年. As we saw earlier, the Japanese use the Gregorian calendar. However, there’s one thing you should note about how they use it: they use dates according to the current emperor. This means that we’re currently in the 29th year of Heisei 平成 which started on January 7, 1989 when the reign of Akihito ended. Each emperor gets their own era. Thus, according to the Japanese calender, it’s 平成２９年, which means the Heisei 29. With such beautiful places to visit, learning Japanese is a great idea. (Source: pixabay.com) “Gengou Free” is a mobile app you can use to convert Japanese dates to Gregorian dates. This can be really useful if you find yourself talking to Japanese natives who express the date in this way. Japanese lessons online to be found in towns and cities across the world.
04. The 12 Months of the Year in Japanese
05. One Last Thing About Years
06. Japanese lessons online to be found in towns and cities across the world.

According to the Japan Foundation, there are thousands of students who choose to study Japanese every year. The majority learn Nihongo, the type of Japanese studied by any foreigner who wants to learn the language.

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There are some facts about Japanese that you should be aware of before you start learning about the Japanese writing systems and learn kanji and kana (hiragana and katakana). You should probably learn some basic Japanese phrases, too, such as telling the time and talking about, times, days, dates, and months.

Before travelling overseas to Kyoto, Yokohama, Tokyo, Mount Fuji, Osaka, Hokkaido, Kyushu, or Kansai, it’d be useful to do a little study session on dates and time vocabulary so that you can buy tickets for a bus or train or just get a table at a restaurant or reserve a hotel.

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