📖LearnModule 1 · Lesson 26 of 30Basic User · CEFR A1, first halfUnit 6 · My week, my likes
Los días de la semana — the days
Module 1 of the free Spanish course (CEFR A1, first half), lesson 26 of 30: Spanish writes lunes, never Lunes, and the week begins on Monday. On this page: 10 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.
The words
Spanish
English
Say it
el lunes
Monday
ehl LOO-nehs
el martes
Tuesday
ehl MAR-tehs
el miércoles
Wednesday
ehl MYEHR-koh-lehs
el jueves
Thursday
ehl HWEH-behs
el viernes
Friday
ehl BYEHR-nehs
el sábado
Saturday
ehl SAH-bah-doh
el domingo
Sunday
ehl doh-MEEN-goh
hoy
today
oy
mañana
tomorrow
mah-NYAH-nah
hoy es martes
today is Tuesday
oy ehs MAR-tehs
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.
Hear the words
Each word is read twice — say it back in the gap. Computer-generated voice; credits on the course page.
La regla · The rule
Spanish writes lunes, never Lunes, and the week begins on Monday. The days are all el-words, and the weekday five end in -es — chant them and the shape carries you.
Y también · And also
Two true sentences a day install the set: Hoy es martes. Mañana es miércoles. Say both every morning for a week — real, true and self-updating spaced repetition.
Ojo · Watch out
The days take no capital letter: lunes, martes. And "on Monday" is just el lunes, with the article and no word for on.
Do it now — on paper
Say all 10 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with el lunes.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write two sentences of your own that get the watch-out line right, then the two practice pages of workbook lesson 26 in Module 1 are the written half of this page.
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 Spanish Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
Keep these words
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.