Lundi through dimanche — the seven days, plus aujourd’hui (today) and demain (tomorrow). French days are not capitalized and the week starts on Monday. Two habits per day — say today’s day when you wake, tomorrow’s when you sleep — and the set installs itself in a week.
| French | English | Say it |
|---|---|---|
| lundi | Monday | luh(n)-DEE |
| mardi | Tuesday | mahr-DEE |
| mercredi | Wednesday | mehr-kruh-DEE |
| jeudi | Thursday | zhuh-DEE |
| vendredi | Friday | vah(n)-druh-DEE |
| samedi | Saturday | sahm-DEE |
| dimanche | Sunday | dee-MAH(n)SH |
| aujourd’hui | today | oh-zhoor-DWEE |
| demain | tomorrow | duh-MA(n) |
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
Each word is read twice — say it back in the gap. Computer-generated voice; credits on the course page.
French writes lundi, never Lundi, and calendars begin the week on Monday. Say the full week as a chant — every day but dimanche ends in the same -di.
Aujourd’hui, c’est mardi. Demain, c’est mercredi. Two sentences a day, real and true, is spaced repetition without a flashcard — though the flashcards help too.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The French Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.
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