I spoke with someone from Japan on Tandem and she said to me “今日はどんな一日でしたか?”
and I’m wondering why 一日 was used since I thought that meant the first of the
month?
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Why is 一日 used instead of 日 to ask how your day is?
In this case, it would be read as [一日]{いち・にち} which just means "(one) day" as
opposed to [一日]{≪ついたち≫} which means first of the month.

My gut says that in this case 一日 is acting like "your day" in particular,
trying to evoke your subjective answer of how it was in particular for
**you**. If she had just asked you 「どんな[日]{ひ}でしたか？」, it would sound to me like
a more objective question, perhaps wanting to know what the weather was like,
or some other "fact" about the day.

Just my ￥2, and they could perhaps even be interchangeable.
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