I'm stuck on the days of the week anybody got any ideas that would help me memorize it? I don't… - Feed Post by Lilgenski

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  Kitagawa

  I found that the kanji meanings themselves really seemed to help me. 月 = moon, 火 = fire, 水 = water, 木 = wood etc... Thinking of the days as being like "moon day, fire day, water day..." Really stuck in my mind a lot better than just these abstract sounds. Hope that helps!!

  April 15, 2016 at 5:10pm
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  JACKBOSMA

  Nichi,Getsu,Kai,Sui,Moko,Kin,Do.........

  April 16, 2016 at 5:19am
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  h4jim3

  shouldn't it be Nichi, Getsu, Ka,Sui, Moku, Kin, Do...?
  Just split it into groups when learning. Memorise the order: Kinyoubi, Doyoubi and Nichiyoubi ( the weekend)
  Getsuyoubi before Kayoubi (the beginning of the week)
  Suiyoubi before Mokuyoubi (the middle of the week)

  April 16, 2016 at 5:53am
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  mog86uk

  I wish I could find the last post on here about the days of the week. I think I posted it about a year ago. I remember I went slightly over-the-top with detail in my answer, and even linked in the characters from Sailor Moon to explain it, haha. I probably posted it in a comment on someone elses post, or on the Chat page, so there's not a lot of chance of me finding it again unless someone for some reason knows where it is. Would be fun to read back what I wrote now. :P
  
  I'm tempted to write another really long post repeating what I can remember writing from last time. I'll try to post something brief for now though, hoping that I can find my old post instead:
  
  七曜（しちよう）= The seven(七) luminaries(曜). These are what were called "the seven planets", which are the seven "planets" that can be seen with the naked eye: the Sun, the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn.
  
  The names of the days of the week used by the Romans were those seven luminaries (in that order I wrote them in). In English we still have Sunday (sun+day) and Monday (moon+day), but we changed the names for the other days away from the names of Roman gods to Anglo-Saxon and Norse gods—except for Saturday (saturn+day). However, some other languages such as French and Spanish didn't change the names of those days. If you know one of these languages, then this order might be easy to remember.
  
  The first day of the week (in both Japan and the Roman week, and should be everywhere else) is the brightest luminary, the Sun. The second day is the next brightest, the Moon. And then the remaining five days of the week are those five planets that are possible to be seen with just the naked eye.
  
  日（にち）= sun
  月（げつ）= moon
  火（か）= fire
  水（すい）= water
  木（もく）= wood (/tree)
  金（きん）= metal (/gold)
  土（ど）= earth (soil)
  
  火星（かせい）= the planet Mars
  水星（すいせい）= the planet Mercury
  木星（もくせい）= the planet Jupiter
  金星（きんせい）= the planet Venus
  土星（どせい）= the planet Saturn
  
  So, the order is first sun and moon. Then it's fire and water, then the building materials wood and metal, then finally earth(soil/dirt). Sunday and Monday are easy enough, but just need to find a way which works for you for remembering the order of the remaining days. If we were still talking about brightness: fire is obviously brighter than water; wood, if you set on fire, then you can use it as a torch brighter than a slab of metal; and, well, it makes sense that dirt(earth) would be at the end thinking like this. :P
  
  (bleh, I wrote too much about nothing, even though I planned to post something brief...)

  April 16, 2016 at 8:31am
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  Lilgenski

  That really helped me though lol thank you it was a fun read too :3 Hopefully I can get off my butt and start learning again.

  April 16, 2016 at 2:42pm