Some of my older students are learning the months of the year this week!  They are really easy, because once you can count in Chinese, and know the word for month 月 (yuè), then you know the months! One of my students pointed out that the character for month in Chinese also means ‘moon’.  That’s because months in China were originally counted by the moon cycle!

Learn this song so that you know the months off by heart:

Lyrics to the song are:

一年有几个月？ 请你告诉我。

一月，二月，三月，四月，五月，六月， 七月，八月，九月，十月，十一月，十二月

没有十三月！

yī nián yǒu jǐ ge yuè ？ qǐng nǐ gào su wǒ 。

 yī yuè ， èr yuè ， sān yuè ， sì yuè ， wǔ yuè ， liù yuè ， qī yuè ， bā yuè ， jiǔ yuè ， shí yuè ， shí yī yuè ， shí èr yuè

 méi yǒu shí sān yuè ！

How many months in a year?  Please let me know.
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.
There is no month 13!

Then you can play this months of the year game to help you listen out for the correct month!