Days and months in Japanese

Days written in Japanese script:

Sunday - 日曜日
Monday - 月曜日
Tuesday - 火曜日
Wednesday - 水曜日
Thursday - 木曜日
Friday - 金曜日
Saturday - 土曜日

Months written in Japanese script:

The character 月 (gatsu) means month in Japanese. Months in Japanese translate literally into '1 month', '2 months' and so forth. If you haven't yet learned the numbers up to 12 using kanji script, play the Japanese numbers 1-12 game.

January - 一月
February - 二月
March - 三月
April - 四月
May - 五月
June - 六月
July - 七月
August - 八月
September - 九月
October - 十月
November - 十一月
December - 十二月

The seasons in Japanese are as follows:

spring - haru 春
summer - natsu 夏
autumn - aki 秋
winter - fuyu 冬

Also, see Kanpai Japan's page 'how to write the date in Japanese'.

About this time in Japanese quiz

Learn to express time and date in the Japanese language with this fun interactive language arts vocabulary game. Free to use language study resource for teaching students everyday spoken Japanese. Online Japanese practice game designed for a relaxed learning experience and a break from the language textbooks. With the vocabulary in this game, you will be able to give the dates for booking a Shinkansen (bullet train) ticket. This game uses Japanese rōmaji (Japanese written with roman characters). Below is the vocabulary featured in this Japanese game written using kanji characters.

Further Japanese learning games:

Go to the main Japanese games page for a large selection of Japanese games that are free to use and can be accessed from both PCs and mobiles. Some of the fun Japanese language games in the learning section include Japanese a Japanese color game with 11 common adjectives, a Japanese vocabulary game for learning essential everyday words and a fun Japanese animal words game. Most of the vocabulary games in the learn Japanese section feature audio and script study options.

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