Monday, January 19, 2009

japanese numbers/time

http://www.genkienglish.net/genkijapan/learnjapanesenumbers.htm
いち ichi 1
に ni 2
さん san 3
し shi 4
ご go 5
ろく roku 6
なな nana (しち shichi) 7
はち hachi 8
きゅ kyu 9
じゆ jyu / zyu 10
じゅーいち jyu-ichi 11

http://www.genkienglish.net/genkijapan/tellingthetimeinjapanese.htm
Once you've done the numbers, telling the time in Japanese is very simple. You just add "ji" to the number to get the "o'clock" part.

http://www.genkienglish.net/genkijapan/monthsoftheyearinjapanese.htm
Luckily, unlike in English where the "8th month", October, is actually the 10th month of the year, in Japanese they haven't had any Roman Emperors messing around with things so it's really, really simple, "1 month" or "ichi gatsu" is January, " ni gatsu" is February, right up to " jyu ni gatsu " which is December.

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