"Today is February second."

Translation: 今日は二月二日です。

[SlightlyNormal]

Would 今日は二日二月です。not be valid in everyday speech?

[Tara166383]

The month goes before the day

[kzulu92]

It should be the largest unit of time to the smallest, year/month/day/hour/minute/etc.

[benhyk]

Pretty much only the US uses that format. Japan actually uses year month day format. To make it more confusing they use 2 different systems day to day. There's the Gregorian calendar then there's the imperial calendar. They starting from the year the Emperor was crowned. As an example, in the 10th year of the Showa emperor would be Showa 10.

[Yalraurest]

You mean only the US uses year/month/day

Day then month is used by most places

[varkentje123]

Neither. year-month-day is the ISO standard (but with some more specifics), but Europe uses day-month-year, and the USA uses month-day-year.

[GkhanSolak]

二日 : ふつか not ににち

[Oni]

I always drop "ha" after dates and leave a small pause, unless I really want to emphasize TODAY!
My Japanese must be very loose these days :)

[pegafix]

I entered exactly 今日はニ月二日です and it was marked as wrong! WTF duolingo

[TyrantRC]

2 → 二ニ ← に in katakana

[pegafix]

OMG, treacherous jp keyboard ;_; thank you!

[MeowMaria87]

Can someone explain to me the pronounciatiin of days, and why 'second' is not pronounced 'ni nichi' please??

[eleamira]

Why is it wrong without は?

[Wgdfazg2j]

I forgot about the です at the end of the sentence and it accepted me. Is it some daily speech when you don't need to add it?

[Akarigoji]

二 日 would have be together as it would be "two days" when seperated. When it appears as 二日 it is classified 2nd.

As the sentence said "February 2nd" the sentence was actually "Today is February Two Days."

But you can use it in sentences like: 彼女は_に二日かかりました。(She took two days to ___.) or 二日間雨が降っています。(It's been raining for two days)

[talkingodlor]

Groundhog Day meets Lost in Translation.

[Jake590855]

Also, there needs to be the particle "no" in between the month and the year. The month "possesses" the day in Japanese.

[kzulu92]

Particle の is not necessary for dates. However you can use の like in the following example, 来週の月曜日.