Video summary

Days of the Week and Days of the Month - Japanese Lesson 3

Main summary

Key takeaways

Educational

Main ideas / lessons

  • The video teaches how to say:
    • Days of the month (e.g., “11th”, “12th”, etc.)
    • Days of the week (e.g., Monday, Tuesday, etc.)
  • It emphasizes pronunciation practice through repetition and chunking:
    • Learn patterns
    • Then review them in order

Method / instructions for saying days of the month

Basic rule (default pattern)

  • Attach “-nichi” to the number to form the ordinal day.
  • Examples:
    • 11th → jyuu-ichi-nichi
    • 12th → jyuu-ni-nichi
    • 13th → jyuu-san-nichi
    • 15th → jyuu-go-nichi
    • 16th → jyuu-roku-nichi
    • 17th → jyuu-shichi-nichi (also mentioned variant: jyuu-nana-nichi)
    • 18th → jyuu-hachi-nichi
    • 19th → jyuu-ku-nichi

Irregular forms / special words (20–30+ range)

  • For 20–24+ and other irregular numbers, the lesson uses specific forms rather than “number + -nichi” alone:

  • Examples given:

    • 21st → ni-jyuu-ichi-nichi
    • 22nd → ni-jyuu-ni-nichi
    • 25th → ni-jyuu-go-nichi
    • 26th → ni-jyuu-roku-nichi
    • 27th → ni-jyuu-nana-nichi (also mentioned: ni-jyuu-shichi-nichi)
    • 28th → ni-jyuu-hachi-nichi
    • 29th → ni-jyuu-ku-nichi
    • 30th → san-jyuu-nichi
    • 31st → san-jyuu-ichi-nichi

Special/irregular day names called out as tricky

Some day names are taught as irregular or particularly important to pronounce correctly:

  • 4th → yokka
    • Also spoken as “youka” / with a stressed long “o” sound; the lesson emphasizes the long vowel.
  • 9th → kokonoka
  • 10th → tooka (also appears as “took-a”)
  • 14th → referenced via a “yokka” family complexity in the lesson subtitles (the subtitles focus on the “yokka” pattern)
  • 6th → muika
  • 2nd → futsuka
  • 3rd → mikka
  • 7th → nanoka
  • 1st → tsuitachi
  • 8th → youka

Review sequence (memorization)

The lesson includes a review sequence from 1st onward, repeated for memorization:

tsuitachi, futsuka, mikka, yokka, itsuka, muika, nanoka, youka, kokonoka, tooka, jyuu-yokka, hatsuka, ni-jyuu-yokka

(Note: Some items may reflect subtitle pronunciation oddities, but they are presented as the practice list in the lesson.)

Instructions for saying days of the week

Rule

  • Add “-youbi” to each weekday name.
  • The subtitles first suggest practicing the weekdays without “youbi”, then adding it.

Weekdays (as taught)

  • Monday → getsuyoubi
  • Tuesday → kayoubi
  • Wednesday → suiyoubi
  • Thursday → mokuyoubi
  • Friday → kinyoubi
  • Saturday → doyoubi
  • Sunday → nichiyoubi

Practice order emphasized

  • Base forms: Getsu, ka, sui, moku, kin, do, nichi
  • Then with “youbi”: getsuyoubi, kayoubi, suiyoubi, mokuyoubi, kinyoubi, doyoubi, nichiyoubi

Speakers / sources

  • Unnamed instructor / narrator (no personal name given)
  • Japan Society (mentioned as the outreach/channel context: “See you at Japan Society”)

Original video