It’s nice to be in Europe for Mardi Gras. In Portugal this week it’s been carnaval, and whilst not quite as fun as Rio de Janeiro, it’s a nice holiday mood, especially on a warm February day.

Mind you unlike French (“mardi”) or Spanish (“martes”), in Portuguese Tuesday has nothing to do with “mardi”, they use a similar system to China. Over there Tuesday is “week day two”, in Portugal it’s “day three”.

Japanese still sticks to the “Day of Mars” theme. So along with “Saturn Day”, “Sunday” and “Moonday”, Tuesday is quite easy to remember as it’s written as “day of the fire (planet)”. Anyway, to help you remember the rest, here’s a nice new animation of the days of the week in Japanese. Plus don’t forget the very NASA-like days of the week in English picture cards. Just the thing to get sci-fi crazed boys interested in class!

P.S. Did you know that if you write to NASA they nearly always write back? How cool would that be for your students!