Age, Days & Months in Japanese - Complete Beginner's Guide - JLPT N5 Must-Know!

Hello and welcome to your eighth lesson of Japanese for beginners course. This is your teacher Rosie again and I'm so excited to learn even more new things with you today. So if you feel the need to review what we have learned in our previous lesson, please go back and review it. But today, let's start learning new things right away. So today we will learn how to ask for someone's age. How old are you? Right. So, let's take a look at the first question. What? Sai years for age for years old when we're talking about someone's age. And this means is RM and K question marker. So, is a very common question to ask for someone's age. Now, uh what I didn't know when I went and started living in Japan is that there's one more way to ask for someone's age. And usually when someone asked me for my age, they asked in the second way. And the second way sounds like this. It also means how old are you is just another way to ask it. So keep this one in mind as well. Okay. And very good. Now let's learn how to say years for age from 1 to 10. Okay? Because uh it will not always be like there will be some exceptions. So let's get started. Isai one years old. Nai 2 years old. Sansai 3 years old. Yonai. Yonai. Yonai. Four years old. Goai. Goai 5 years old. Roai Rousai Rousai 6 years old. Nana 7 years old. And our second exception is Hai 8 years old. 9 years old and for 10 years old. There are two ways to say it. The first one is and the second way is pay attention here that here we have these small t that make the consonant coming afterwards sound double. And the same goes for and isai. Very good. Now for 11 years old, it would be and afterwards we would just add a number to number 10. And another exception is 20. So if you want to see your 20 years old, you would say Now, if we're talking about 30, 40, 50, we just add three, four, five, whatever in front of number 10. So, it would look like this. So, 30 years old would be 40 years old would be so four, 10, and years old. Now I'll ask you a question. How old are you? And you can reply in two ways. The first way [Music] is so let's say I would want to say I'm 25. Or you can just reply like this. So now can you try to answer this question by yourself? I will give you five seconds to answer this question. How did it go? Was it all good? Okay, now we can move forward and now we will learn months in Japanese. Let's start off from January. February March, April She got she got she got May goats goats goats. So month in Japanese is called guts guts. Very good. And as you can see we have an exception with April. So as you can see we have an exception with April. It's not it's not it's very good. So we have now let's take a look at other six months uh from June. July, August, September, October. So from all of those six months, we have two exceptions. With July, where it's not nana, but it's and with September where it's not, but it's very good. So we have very good. Let's take a look at the last two months. So November will be and December will [Music] be very good. Now let's learn days of the month from the first day to the 10th day. So we do not say likei because that wouldn't make sense. days of the month in Japanese have specific names for them from the first day to the 10th day. Okay, so let's start off with the first day. The second day would be futska footska footska. The third day would be mika mika mika with a small t right here. So that's why the consonant coming after becomes double mika. And the same goes for the fourth day where it's ya ya. We have a small t again. And the fifth day would be. The sixth day would be ma ma ma. The seventh day would be nanoka nanoka. The eighth day would be ya ya ya. The ninth day would be coona coa coa and the 10th day would be to very good. So I know that it might be difficult to memorize all of the names of these 10 days. Um so what you can do you can make a short rhyme to memorize it easier or you can try to save them very very fast. All right. So what I did, I made like a short rhyme to memorize them faster and um I want to share it with you. Maybe it will help you out as well. So it would be like this. Well, I hope it will help you out and if not, maybe you will find your own way to memorize these days of the month. And now let's take a look at other days of the month. So when we move from 10, we move to 11th. And from 11th, it will be easier because we don't need to memorize special names. It will be just normal numbers 11, 12, 13, etc. And then we will need to addi. Soi is the Japanese word for day. So we will say 11i and theni day and then it will be 11th day and etc. So let's take a look. So 11th day would be 12th day would be 13th day would be 14th day would [Music] be so this comes from the last 10 days that we learned four. Okay. 15th day would be 16th day would be 17th day would be 18th day would be 19th day would be and the 20th day would be hatska So only for the 20th day would we use when we will be talking about 212 22 then we would use again. So now how do we ask when is your birthday? So first we need to know the word for birthday. Uh the word the word birthday in Japanese [Music] is and if we want to ask when is your birthday we would ask we add and I marked it in red because it's like a honorific that it makes it makes birthday sound more polite because we're talking about someone else's birthday. Very good. So before we learn how to talk about our own birthday, we need to learn a very important particle. Particle no. Particle no is a possessive particle. It's pronounced as no. No. And it shows that something belongs to someone. Okay. So let's take a look at the first example. We have so we already know that means I or me. If we add no toi, it becomes my or mine. If we take a look at the second example, we have anata in Japanese means you. And if we want to say your yours, we would say then let's take a look at this one. We have so in Japanese means us. And if we say then it would mean our. And the last one, if we want to say that Rio's, we have a girl named Rio, we would say it like this. [Music] Rioan. Okay. So, it would be Rio's bag. Rio's bag. So, don't forget to add sun to someone's name to make it sound polite. Now, the way we would reply to the question, when is your birthday? is the way it is written here in this sentence. [Music] So so this is the number of the month and then this is the day. So you can make a long answer like this. For example, I can say that my birthday is on the 1st of December. I would reply like this. December and then first or I can skip this part and just say the month and the day. So here I would say and that makes my answer way shorter. Okay, now let's practice. I would like you to tell me when is your birthday. So I will ask you when is your birthday and I will give you five seconds to reply. Okay, let's go. How did it go? How's it good? All right, then let's move forward. Here we have an example. 1st of December. All right. And now I would like us to check here. Which month and which day would it be? I will give you five seconds to think of the answer. Okay. So it's 2nd of January. Very good. 3rd of February. Very good. 7th of March. 8th of April. Very good. Our next one, 9th of May. 11th of July. First of August. Very good. [Music] 30th of September. 20th of October. Very good. November. Perfect. And now let's learn days of the week from Monday to Sunday. So let's take a look. The part that will always repeat itself will be yi. Yi. So y means week, b means day. So day of the week. Okay. And the only thing that will change will be the beginning of the word. Okay. So let's start from Monday. [Music] [Music] Coyi Wednesday [Music] Thursday [Music] Friday Saturday doi [Music] Sunday. Very good. So we have Now I want you to try to remember these days. Okay, I will give you 10 seconds. How did it go? Let's take a look. Did you remember them correctly? [Music] Very good. Now, how would we ask which day of the week is it? Let's take a look at this sentence and its structure. So today means is so today is why is a topic particle as for today nan means what day of the week means is and k is a question indicator. So what day of the week is it today? It would sound like this. And we would reply in this way something or without we can just say [Music] something. Very good. So how could we say it's Monday? I will give you five seconds and then we will check our answer. Monday. Very good. How about Tuesday? Very good. Now let's move on to Wednesday. Now Thursday now Friday now Saturday. [Music] And our last day is Sunday. Great job. Now, let's practice. I will ask you, how old are you? And you will see a number on the screen. and I will give you five seconds to try to tell me the answer in Japanese. Okay. 20 years old. Very good. 18. 21. [Music] 85. Nonis 25. [Music] 46. 55. worked so hard and you have learned a lot of new vocabulary today. You have learned months, days of the week, and days of the month. And you learned how to tell your age. I'm very proud of you. Congratulations, and I will see you in our next lesson.