Colours - Blue, Red, White

Experimenting if learning how to say things in three foreign languages (that I'm partially familiar with) helps me remember better than just learning how to say things in one foreign language:

English	Japanese	Cantonese	Spanish
Blue	あお (ao)	laam4 sik1 (藍色)	azul
Red	あか (aka)	hung4 sik1 (紅色)	rojo
White	しろ (shiro)	baak6 sik1 (白色)	blanco

Assorted Words

New Japanese words I learned:

ちかてち pasokon (personal computer)

おてら otera (temple)

つまらない tsumaranai (boring)

なし nashi (pear)

まずい mazui (not tasty)

きたない kitanai (dirty)

じんざ jinja (shrine)

べんり benri (convenient)

ちかてち chikatetsu (subway)

How do you tell time in Japanese? (Part 1)

The first thing to learn is how to ask what time is it?

いま なんじ ですか (ima nanji desu ka?) – what time is it? (Literally, “now, what hour is it?”)

Next, the twelve hours:

1 o‘clock – 1-じ (ichi-ji)

2 o‘clock – 2-じ (ni-ji)

3 o‘clock – 3-じ (san-ji)

4 o‘clock – 4-じ (shi-ji)

5 o‘clock – 5-じ (go-ji)

6 o‘clock – 6-じ (roku-ji)

7 o‘clock – 7-じ (shichi-ji)

8 o‘clock – 8-じ (hachi-ji)

9 o‘clock – 9-じ (ku-ji)

10 o‘clock – 10-じ (juu-ji)

11 o‘clock – 11-じ (juuichi-ji)

12 o‘clock – 12-じ (juuni-ji)

To say a.m., say ごぜん (gozen).  To say “p.m.”, say ごご (gogo). But you must say them before the time.  So, 8pm is ごご 8-じ  (gogo hachi-ji).