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The 212th topic is "Japanese-style month names".

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What’s up! Welcome back to my podcast “こんなときのにほんご”.

Hello! I'm Megumi! It’s great to have you tuning in!

It’s the 212th time.

Take another fun Japanese quiz. Let's get started.

Today, let's learn about “the alias of the month”.

今回は月の別名を学びましょう。

Wait? What is a month? What else is there besides January and February? Did you wonder?

Actually, in Japan, it can be called something else!

For example ,Which of the following represents the month of November?

①霜月

②睦月

③如月

The answer is One! ‘しもつき。’.

Repeat after me.

Excellent!

Now let's list them all, starting with January!

Incidentally, these are called Japanese-style month names.

睦月

如月

弥生

卯月

皐月

水無月

文月

葉月

長月

神無月

霜月

師走

It might be kind of cool to remember!

覚えてみると、ちょっとかっこいいかもしれません!

That's all for today. 

Thanks for joining me today, and I'll see you next week.

Until then, おつかれさまでした! Bye!