Module 5 of the free Spanish course (CEFR A2 mastery + the B1 bridge), lesson 10 of 30: The calendar machine, whole: Hoy es jueves, doce de marzo. 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.
| Spanish | English | Say it |
|---|---|---|
| ¿qué fecha es hoy? | what is the date today? | keh FEH-chah ehs OY |
| ¿qué hora es? | what time is it? | keh OH-rah ehs |
| son las diez y cuarto | it is quarter past ten | sohn lahs dyehs ee KWAR-toh |
| ¿qué tiempo hace? | what is the weather like? | keh TYEHM-poh AH-seh |
| nieva | it snows | NYEH-bah |
| normal | normal | nohr-MAHL |
| es invierno | it is winter | ehs een-BYEHR-noh |
| el sol | the sun | ehl SOHL |
| la lluvia | the rain | lah YOO-byah |
| el reloj | the clock | ehl rreh-LOH |
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.
The calendar machine, whole: Hoy es jueves, doce de marzo. Son las diez y cuarto. Hace frío y nieva — es normal, ¡es invierno!
Say today's full line — day, date, time, weather — every morning until Module 5 ends. It is the warm-up every Spanish classroom in the world uses.
nieva is what the sky does; la nieve is the snow. hace sol is the weather; el sol is the sun itself. One is a verb phrase, the other a thing.
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.
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