📖LearnModule 2 · Lesson 16 of 30Basic User · CEFR A1, completedUnit 4 · The date and the weather
Los meses — the months
Module 2 of the free Spanish course (CEFR A1, completed), lesson 16 of 30: Twelve months, none capitalized, most of them recognizable at a glance: enero, febrero. On this page: 12 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
enero
January
eh-NEH-roh
febrero
February
feh-BREH-roh
marzo
March
MAR-soh
abril
April
ah-BREEL
mayo
May
MAH-yoh
junio
June
HOO-nyoh
julio
July
HOO-lyoh
agosto
August
ah-GOHS-toh
septiembre
September
sehp-TYEHM-breh
octubre
October
ohk-TOO-breh
noviembre
November
noh-BYEHM-breh
diciembre
December
dee-SYEHM-breh
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.
La regla · The rule
Twelve months, none capitalized, most of them recognizable at a glance: enero, febrero, marzo… Two sounds to watch: the j of junio and julio is the breathy h, and the z of marzo says s.
Y también · And also
Mi cumpleaños es en mayo — my birthday is in May. En works for every month, and the months are all masculine words: el mes de agosto.
Ojo · Watch out
The months take no capital letter: enero, mayo. And junio and julio start with the breathy h-sound of jugo, never with an English j.
Do it now — on paper
Say all 12 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with enero.
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 16 in Module 2 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.