Learning a new language is an exciting and rewarding experience. One of the first things you need to learn in any language is the days of the week and the months of the year. In this article, we will explore how to write and pronounce the days of the week and the months of the year in Spanish.
Days of the Week
In Spanish, the days of the week are:
- lunes (Monday)
- martes (Tuesday)
- miércoles (Wednesday)
- jueves (Thursday)
- viernes (Friday)
- sábado (Saturday)
- domingo (Sunday)
To pronounce these words correctly, keep in mind that Spanish is a phonetic language, which means that words are pronounced exactly as they are written. Here are the phonetic pronunciations of the days of the week:
- lunes: loo-ness.
- martes: mar-tess.
- miércoles: mee-air-coh-less.
- jueves: hway-bess.
- viernes: bee-air-ness.
- sábado: sah-bah-doh.
- domingo: doh-meen-goh.
Months of the Year
In Spanish, the months of the year are:
- enero (January).
- febrero (February).
- marzo (March).
- abril (April).
- mayo (May).
- junio (June).
- julio (July).
- agosto (August).
- septiembre (September).
- octubre (October).
- noviembre (November).
- diciembre (December).
To pronounce these words correctly, remember that the letters «c» and «g» have a different sound when followed by «e» or «i» in Spanish. They sound like the English «s» and «h», respectively. Here are the phonetic pronunciations of the months of the year:
- enero: eh-neh-roh.
- febrero: feh-breh-roh.
- marzo: mahr-thoh.
- abril: ah-bree-ll.
- mayo: mah-yoh.
- junio: hoo-nee-oh.
- julio: hoo-lee-oh.
- agosto: ah-goh-stoh.
- septiembre: sep-tee-em-bray.
- octubre: ohk-too-bray.
- noviembre: noh-bee-em-bray.
- diciembre: dee-see-em-bray.
In addition to learning the names and pronunciations of the months and days, it is important to note that in Spanish, the days of the week and months of the year are not capitalized, except at the beginning of a sentence.
