Telling time and asking questions. Telling time in Japanese is a little strange because there are some variants from the normal counting system, but thankfully not a lot. For instance, ichiji is one o'clock. That makes sense because ichi means one, and you just add 'ji' at the end. However four o'clock is not jiji, it's yoji (also nine o'clock is not kyuji but kuji.) Han is also half, so if you want to say 1:30 you would say ichiji han. AM and PM are gozen and gogo respectively, and are always before the time. So 1:30 pm would be gogo ichiji han. Apart from time I learned some very important concepts. The particle no, indicating ownership, requires the point of the sentence to be placed first. For instance a professor at a university would be daigaku no sensei (university no teacher). So since the teacher belongs to the university, university comes first. It's the same when formulating questions or statements about someone related to you; Watashi no kodomo wa Liam desu (My child is Liam.) I also learned some important vocabulary... 1. Doru = dollar 2. Ima = now 3. Gakusei = student 4. Senkou = major 5. Ryuugakusei = international student 6. Suma = wife 7. Sai = years old 8. Kagetsu = months old.