Months and Days of the Month | Japanese From Zero! Video 22 

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Hello George, i just wanted to say that today i had a pretty cool experience thanks to you. I work in a highly asian populated town where i serve food. A customer came and pointed at the vegetables he wanted, but wasn't sure how to ask for them. I took a shot and asked "yasai?" He looked at me (i'm white so i imagine he didn't expect it) smiled and shook his head "hai!, yasai" a few minutes later i went to his table, and asked him "nihongo ga hanasemasu ka" after that we had a short, and extremely simple conversation in japanese, mostly just an introduction "スティーブ tomoshimasu, yoroshiku onegaishimasu. at the end i was able to ask him if the food was delicious as well (oishii desu ka) sorry for the essay, but I'm only here on lesson 8 and i was able to make this cool little connection i never would have before. in my first interaction with a native speaker, i knew what i wanted to say, and was able to confidently. as simple of a conversation as it was, it totally reassured me that i was making progress throughout these courses. you're a great teacher george, thank you!

Since you were wearing a hat this video, I will always remember the 20th day as HATS-ka

23:44 george: "Is it... nanagatsu?" *Smily face :D me: *smiles too george: "NO" me: QAQ

Arigatou Luigi Sensei!

This man is my favorite human being

Honestly George, aside from my own desires, looking at you and listening to you motivates me to learn japanese, and at the same time it ensures me that it's possible, as long as I hang on and make sure to properly absorb the material. It's been a long time since I've felt so passionate about something, so I can't help but be excited about every new thing you teach us and I try to apply it to every single sentence that I can possibly build with what you have taught us so far.

That story in the middle is a reason why I trust George's teaching and expertise.

I've been following your videos for about 3 years-ish now lol I'd say I'm an intermediate Japanese learner but I've been following bits of this series as a sort of recap/revision. Watching this has reminded me how baffling this concept was when I first came across it. I remember showing some of my Japanese friends your "How to speak like a pro!" video and they thought you were brilliant and loved the way you teach! I've made tons of notes from your videos over the years. The Japanese in 5 series was invaluable to me when it came to self-studying grammar. Thanks for all you do and for being entertaining while you do it :)

Yes you’re correct about the Arabic Numbers. Although some numbers trickled down from the Indian region under Islamic rule, the numbers were perfected along with algebra in the Middle East where the numerals took their final form in the Arabic way.

Our number system is usually referred to as "Arabic numerals", but that isn't really true. They were invented in India around 200 a.d, then spread to arabic mathematicians a few hundred years later, and in turn spread to westerners some time thereafter. Nowadays if you look it up, you will sometimes see it written as "Hindu-Arabic numerals", but the former has been around for so long that it has just stuck. Love you :^)

I'm studying Japanese at university as a side module to my major. I find your books have saved me when it comes to understanding stuff better. I studied from your books to get me through my first speaking exam. I got a first! I also have been practicing Japanese with my Japanese friends at uni and online with my friends who are from Japan. They are all Impressed with my progress. Before I found your videos my pronunciation was bad. Your videos are a good asset to the series. Thank you so much for taking the time to make these.

Its been 7 years since you uploaded this videos but all i can say that thank you very much for teaching for free people they couldn't get the books❤❤

I’ve tried learning Japanese multiple times now and dropped it twice because of frustration. This is the only course/series of videos that is actually getting me anywhere. I feel a lot less overwhelmed and swamped with random info, and I like that it’s more focused of conversational Japanese, what you’d actually say, rather than like repetitive and unnecessarily long textbook sentences. “This is a cat. This cat is grey. This cat is cute.” Vs “This is a grey cat. It’s cute.” And the random facts keep my adhd happy lol. I’m Canadian and don’t know shit about US presidents but now whenever I think of 44 I think of Obama.

I got stuck on this lesson got angry for half the day then re watched it when your advice to absorb the information watched the video again read through the lesson and took it slow thanks it really helped

Hello Mr. George! I’m a 14 year old studying Japanese, and I want to thank you for being a great teacher. I’ve genuinely found Japanese really easy because of all your sources. It has been exactly 2 weeks ever since I started practicing Japanese using the JFZ book 1 and I’ve learnt so much! I’m certain I will finish the book in less than a month and I will jump right into the second book! This video might be old, but I’m here after 4 years, and I want to thank you so much for letting me benefit and learn a lot from you.

The number counting series and this one have been so valuable and helpful.

Thank you for all these videos! Very helpful!

Your teaching is so great. You inspire me every day to learn Japanese and get me so excited to learn! I'm struggling to memorize some of these new vocabulary words but I know I will be able to soon

Just want to thank you for doing these so much, learning this language is like climbing up a huge mountain for me and you are being a really helpful with learning and motivation. I hope you have good karma for the rest of your life. :)

Sensei, you look so swag in that midori set. I love your videos, you made me want to learn Japanese seriously. The story times really make the lessons more fun. Looking forward to your next lesson!

i basically watch your videos before going through the book and it helps me a lot better than when i was only trying to understand the book . luckily i found this playlist . ありがとうございます

Its at the days of the month that I keep getting confused, each time I try learn Japanese. And before I'd just stumble past it or give up. But you're such great teacher, really enthusiastic and you make your students feel so proud of the work they've done so far! I love your book!

best japanese course i've ever seen on youtube, teach step by step . . . NC one . . .

its amazing and motivational, to say the least, how you still put in maximum effort into these lessons, even though you offer them for free! respect

you are the best !! I really like your lessons! I learn so much!

Because of my busy life I can only listen for the most part. But I can understand the difference between all the particles in between. Bought the first book just to support you. In 2 months I have learned so much since I listen to multiple lessons for about 8hours a day. Thanks

I am amazed at how far I have came due to taking up your lessons. I watch your videos as well as use the book. At first, learning Japanese was somewhat difficult but as time (not long actually) went on, it is becoming easier and easier to understand what I am learning. Sometimes I will forget certain things initially but I am now able to correct the mistake on my own. One more column and I will know all hiragana, katakana is next. Many thanks

Hey George. I'm from brazil. I'm watching your videos. It is so great. You are a great teacher. arigatou gozaimasu.

To remember 4日 (よっか) and ８日 (ようか), I tell myself that yooka is twice longer tan yokka when you prononce. So if it is twice 4, it's 8. And slightly similar, ６日 (むいか) is almost ３日 (みっか) but twice longer to pronounce, so 3 x 2 = 6. いつか (someday) and いつも (always) are related to いつ (When) (as nanika and nanimo are related to nani) and now, thanks to you, I can relate to day 5 (５日) which helped me a lot to remember all the days of the month. I learn Japanese in a Japanese school but reviewing your videos helps me to reinforce what I learned so far and to make new neuronal connection (like いつ and５日). Great job!

We love you, George!!!! You're the best!!! :)

Also at 19:20 you spell the tenth month with "juu" written in hiragana but on the next slide it is in Romaji.

Very helpful! Thanks!

Hi, this is so true, I got stuck and frustrated for weeks because I was learning all numbers+age+time+month and days of the month in one time via some Skillshare class. I almost gave up, then I decided to skip it, moving forward and comeback to those later. I'm actually re-learning from zero via you and I enjoy it a lot. Thank you

Really helpful as always - thanks for the content :)

we really do love u sensei..arigato gozaimasu

im watching these in the playlist for review and suddenly seeing you go from your last outfit to this all green was such a hilarious surprise 😭

Awesome vid! Keep doing what you do!

Even I do not have your books, I have only online subscription, those vids are great addition! Thanks for making them!

I gotta say i always do the lessons on your website first, then come here, and knowing i'll get to watch another of your videos soon always keeps me motivated to do the lessons. Thank you Geroge! Also i gotta say, yeah the ko-so-a-do things are kind of funny. At first it's pretty hard to understand, but once you have the first set of them down the concept gets pretty easy and you quickly notice when that pattern comes up again. Like at the very beginning when we learned it about items (using -re and -cchi) it was really hard to understand. But then the same concept came up for places again and i was like "Oh yeah it's that thing from back there just using a different ending now, that's easy). I agree, if all of those had been in the same lesson i think my brain would have overheated. That's a typical case of too much information then.

Whooo, still great help a year later!!!

Love ur videos

When you mentioned はつか and then asked how to say 20 years old in Japanese. It reminded that when I was watching an anime the other day, a guy yelled out 「はたち！！！！ 」All because a middle schooler called him old. I'm glad that you've taught about the 20th and 20 years old. I had forgotten how to say it, and whenever I asked other people the other ways to say 20, they'd just reply with 「二十」- it was really frustrating. I eventually forgot that I had been searching for that answer until you did your lessons. Thank you. (:

Hey George, just wanted to share a quick story. Thanks to this lesson and repeated practice I was able to go to the nearby Japanese grocery store today (Jan 9) and ask someone "今日はここのかですか" - to which he replied "ここのか?はいそうですよ". That was the first time I ever actually tried saying something in a different language in the wild and am sure I was grinning like an idiot all the way back to my car. I look forward to learning more and trying again. ありがとうジョージ先生!

So I've been binging your vids up till this point over the weekend (got a lot of time on my hands) and I realised this just doesn't work like that. You're going to reach a point where everything you've absorbed will explode because it's too much at once. For me that is now. So one concept a day here on out lol. But I can't believe I can read hirigana and speak very basic Japanese already. It's only been a weekend, you're awesome. Can't wait to get your books :) you're a great and funny teacher. Learning Japanese is so much fun. ありがとうございます

Good job, again! I love your green outfit! Very trendy!

I completely forgot what Golden Week was. Now I'm reminded thanks to this video. It's mentioned often in the monogatari series, so now I understand it better.

I'm watching this vid expectly on January 1° 2024. Perfect method and great book!

Thanks to you I am making so much progress! Arigato Gozaimasu ^_^

Well George sensei after around four years someone who likes your teaching is correcting you .that foundation of Math like zero, decimal and basic algebra was formed in India but when people from Arab came India for exploring they took that knowledge and it spread through the world.

ありがとうございます。

thank you jo-jisan.....you are so funny i enjoyed watching ur videos at the same time i learned alot from you....

Yay I can say my birthday in Japanese now! I would say: "わたしのたんじょうびは1(いち)がつ18(じゅうはち)にちです。" which says "Tanjoubi wa ichigatsu juuhachinichi desu." which means My birthday is January 18th. :) ありがとうございますジョージせんせい。

Weeell. I decided to pass on days of the month. I'll come back to them when they seem easier to remember. Right now, my brain can't cope.

ジョージさんはかっこいいです😃

my brain is melting after this lesson

Thank you so much for the video. :) ^^ it's useful and fun. :) ^^

i watched your video twice and didn't skip the rant the second time because i like your ranting.

You look great on your みどりのシャツ! Very Luigish!

When im watching anime and i still cant understand clearly i get a little dishearted, but then i hear little words that i didn't understand before, or i can tell what they want to say ahead of time, and that feels nice ( いいきもちです)

How I remember birthday: I do not want Bon Jovi playing at my たんじょうび。

20:54 not him trying not to laugh after saying that

I think it was ancient India that invented numbers written in that way. Numbers in Sanskrit look similar in some ways. I know that the concept of zero was said to have originated there.

Hello, George. I think I see a pattern as to when you use Shi vs Yon, as well as Shichi vs Nana. I don't know for sure, but I'll float the idea by you and let you mull it over. Japanese seems to use the sound that's closer to chinese (Si is 4 in chinese, and qi (chi) is 7 in chinese) when it is part of a compound word, similar to how in english, we say 'hydro electric' instead of 'water electric.' Something about it being a compound word seems to change whether they use the japanese pronunciation vs the pronunciation similar to chinese.

14:26 ThaT SOuNdS SooOOoOO cOOl

Trombley-sensei reppin' the Gangsta-Yoshi outfit like a boss. DAISUKI!

You can notice that when you do sums you do from right to left, which is how some arabic writing works :)

You make a Pretty Good Sensei...

Little study before going back to work.

I'm actaully jotting down your examples for references and then hearing my name made me stop HAHAHAHAAH it's actually weird hearing my name lol and I know I'm not the only one with that name 🤣 So I guess, what I'm feeling right now is how people feel when they see or hear their names used as examples. It makes me giddy that I cannot explain in any way (but in a good way). Thank you for your hard work sir!

3:40 6:10 17:40 19:20

LOL " I got so excited that I forgot to breathe" IT KILLED ME! 😂

きょうはいつですか？きょうはきょうです。lol. Thanks for the lessons, they really have been helping so much.👍🏻

The 0-9 numbers were invented in India and popularized by the Arabs an the Persians. In Arabic and Farsi, the digits are written differently than what we are used to.

You may be cool but you're not as cool as George sensei.

4:07 5:37 (I'm just putting this here so it's easy to skip to where I wanna review these next few days)

You will understand the sentence how meaningful if your wife asks 'kyou wa istudeska". 😅😊

Arigatou gozaimasu

please make some video about listening

George fixing the typo mistakes is my ASMR

Just marking to review this later

Thank you so much George Sensei. Just I've got one question. You said in this video that "ichi nichi" means one day but not first day of the week, does it mean that "ju ichi nichi" can be eleventh day of the month and eleven day? Thanks for the answer dear Sensei :)

“Moving right along” k e r m i t Also 14:25 everything sounds scarier in japanese

,those numbers are invetented with the zero by an arabian mathemetician called alkhawarazmi and they are far different from the hindi numbers witch still used in many arabian country.

17:23 If that conversation actually happened, it would be so funny.

Question: I'm a big fan of Ranma 1/2, so I've been keeping its Japanese audio going to help get me comfortable with the language. There's an episode that features a special pill that's supposed to last for one day. Now, I'm just getting started on all this, haven't even gotten past book 1 yet (thanks for making the digital ones so cheap, by the way), but I started to pick up on いちにち being used a lot. ついたち seems to be used for both the 1st day and "1 day," and I thought # + にち was incorrect for < 10 days. Ranma is almost 20 years at this point, so is this a trend in changing language, or something else going on that I'm missing? For reference (since it's on Hulu), it's S3 E53: "All it Takes Takes is One! the Kiss of Love is the Kiss of Death." The "one-day pill" is discussed a lot around 15 minutes in.

Sensei wear hat... Me: I shall wear my hat too!

Arya Bhatta of India invented Zero eons ago. The numbers we use are actually from India. They were perhaps spread around the world by Arab traders.

What video covers rankings? 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.

Hello George sensei. I have learned all the hiragana till yo, but it takes time to recognize a word written fully in hiragana and it's a little bit frustrating to remind all the hiragana to get one that's written. How should I improve myself to read hiragana faster?

How bad is it if I mistakenly say ついたちにち？ I think some beginners would always say nichi after the day even if it is the first 10 days of the month.

thank you for this lesson... I was really waiting for this one because I suck at dates (pun intended ^^)... I already did the N3 JLPT but I almost instantly forget all those exceptions like はつか、ついたち、よっか and ようか... this is so frustrating because I don't use them often... I'll rewatch this lesson until my brain says 分かってるよ！馬鹿だろう？

ok well now ik 2 parts of the your lie in april title in japanese. Shigatsu wa something something. now i need to learn the rest :D

What’s the rule for the following being incorrect when asking “what day of the month is it?” “なんにちがですか。“ I understand after you mentioned the correct answer of きょうはなんにちですか。but I was just wondering why the former sounds wrong now. Thanks! Btw, I’m on week 3 of my journey to Japanese and I must say your videos are awesome. Of all the things I’m using, your videos tend to be the glue that hold all the other supplements together. They are fun and informative! ありがとうおございます❗️

7:34 aren't 19 and 29 exceptions too? 19 is juukyuu, but the 19th is juukunichi. The kyuu becomes ku. Same happens with 29.

Arigatou But I gotta admit Learning dates is actually REALLY hard for a person like me whose English is her second language and never managed to learn English months. Cuz we use a totally different calendar here in Iran.

What’s the hiragana after the ju before the u on your list of months next to the 10 at 19:10?

Even though he was angry at 14:25, I kinda laugh, sorry Georgie sensei. 17:19 Georgie sensei thug life compilation moment.

Should I do grammar before extensive vocabulary? Any advice would help.

Do you have to say the month first and then the day (i.e. the american way)? Or can you put the day first and then the month like we do in Europe?