Learning Chinese III

Today we'll be doing days, weeks, and months. Something I quite like about Mandarin is that rather than give these things individual names like, for example, english Monday, Tuesday etc, they have a "day designator", a "week designator" and a "month designator" word that you simply add to those numbers that you already know (remember - lesson II ;))

So you have:

Day/tian (like tee-an) using "xingqi" (like sheeng-chee) to get:

Monday xingqiyi (like sheeng-chee-ee) 星期一
Tuesday xingqier (like sheeng-chee-urr) 星期二
Wednesday xingqisan (like sheeng-chee-sahn) 星期三
Thursday xingqisi (like sheeng-chee-suh) 星期四
Friday xingqiwu (like sheeng-chee-woo) 星期五
Saturday xingqiliu (like sheeng-chee-leo) 星期六
*Sunday xingqitian (like sheeng-chee-teean) 星期天


Week/xingqi (like sheeng-chee):

1 week yi xingqi (like ee sheeng-chee) 一 星期
2 weeks er xingqi (like urr sheeng-chee) 二星期
etc
this week zhei-ge xingqi (like jay-guh sheeng-chee) 这个 星期

Month/yue (like yuu- eh) to name or list the months but if you are giving a date you use ri (like ree):
January Yiyue (like ee-yuu-eh) 一月
February Eryue (like ur-yuu-eh) 二月
March Sanyue (like sahn-yuu-eh) 三月
April Siyue (like suh-yuu-eh) 四月
May Wuyue (like woo-yuu-eh) 五月
June Liuyue (like leo-yuu-eh) 六月
July Qiyue (like chee-yuu-eh) 七月
August Bayue (like bah-yuu-eh) 八月
September Jiuyue (like jeo-yuu-eh) 九月
October Shiyue (like shr-yuu-eh) 十月
November Shiyiyue (like shr-ee-yuu-eh) 十一月
December Shieryue (like shr-urr-yuu-eh) 十二月