"金よう日"
Translation:Friday
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Is the difference that you do a little pause between kin and yo? Or is there another difference?
ん is a weird sound. It's a uvular N, pronounced almost like an ng in English but without fully closing the back of your mouth. This means that んよ sounds very different from にょ.
(Also, fun fact: tempura（ 天ぷら） is pronounced similarly in Japanese as in English because ん followed by a p sound turns the ん into an m sound! It's much easier to pronounce. Try saying "inpressive" or "anperage"!)
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It is more or less like the nasal sound in french, which becomes m before p, b or another m
Thanks for the comment! Very helpful indeed. To add even more, I've seen that it does sound like an English “ng” when it's follow by a 'G' or a 'K', and sound like a 'n' when followed by 'D', 'T' and another 'N' itself (as in “kon'nichiwa”). Can you confirm that?
I WAS going to ask for some good puns to help me remember the days of the week, but I found more than enough to help out.
Arigatou!
Kin almost sounds like king and the top of the kanji looks like a crown. On fridays I feel like a King!!
Party and party and party and party and party and party and party on the weeeeeekend
Unless I am missing something it is completely random when kanji, kana or kanji+kana is required for a correct answer. In this particular case 金曜日 was NOT accepted?! Having to commit to memory which particular answer is correct for a given question is really annoying and a waste of brain power. One solution could be to accept both kanji and kana answers.
The combinations of correct answers are fixed by the course contributors. In this case the contributors thought that the kanji 【曜】 was too difficult as per the standard JLPT N5 level, thus it was excluded from the initial correct answer. The contributors need to enter each combination of answers manually in the Duolingo database to make that particular answer correct, but it seems that although a number of feedbacks have been sent, nobody has taken any action and I have never heard of any reasons from them. It may be fixed in the upcoming 2.0 course update because they promised a lot more kanji are included.
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Why does Duolingo accept the 曜 Kanji some of the time but not others? It's really annoying to type out the kanji for 金, stop to type out よう, and then type the 日 Kanji.
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I really love how the days of the week in Japanese are expressed. Germanic and Romance days of the week are based off Gods and Celestial bodies, while Japanese days of the week are based off down-to-earth nature. I don't know why but I love that.
I don't get why 曜(よう) is in Hiragana but the first and the last characters are in Kanji. It looks very inconsistent.
This lesson is inconsistent in what it accepts. For all of the listen and type ones, grading is the following:
Tuesday: 火曜日 Wednesday: 水曜日 Thursday: 木曜日 Friday: 金よう日
Using 金曜日 for Friday is graded as incorrect.
