Full list of teacher resources here. Online Spanish Tests. Use our free online Spanish test to estimate your level of fluency. Spanish Courses. We offer free self-study courses for students of all levels. Free Online Spanish Games. Games and activities featuring high-quality images and audio. Learning Spanish should be fun. Spanish for Kids. You can find a separate post on days, months and seasons vocab here. The major difference here is that in Spanish, the month always comes after the day, whereas in English, the month can go before or after the day.
Just like in English, there are two ways to express certain years, depending on how specific you want to be. With certain periods i. When stating the entire date, the year usually comes after the month and day, just like in English.
Write "primero" for the first of the month. Typically when you're writing the long form of a date in Spanish, you'll use a numeral for the day. This changes with the first of the month, when the word "primero" meaning "first" typically is used. Abbreviate the date using letters and numbers. Each month of the year has a three-letter shortened form in Spanish. Occasionally you will see the date written with this numerals for the day and year with this three-letter abbreviation for the month.
For example, you might see the date "July 11, " abbreviated in Spanish as "jul Method 2. Write the months in Spanish. If you want to write the long form of a date, you need to know and be able to spell the names of each of the months in Spanish. Knowing how to spell the names of the months also is essential to recognize the abbreviated form of the name.
February is febrero. March is marzo. April is abril. May is mayo. June is junio. July is julio. August is agosto. September is septiembre. October is octubre. November is noviembre. December is diciembre. Learn the words for numbers in Spanish.
It's true that you don't need to write out the word for the day of the week when writing the date in Spanish. But understanding how the words are spelled will help you when you're reading a written date aloud. Two is dos. Three is tres. Four is cuatro. Five is cinco. Six is seis. Seven is siete. Eight is ocho. Nine is nueve. Ten is diez. Learn the words for numbers after Since there are as many as 31 days in a month, you can't stop learning the numbers at In Spanish, the numbers 11 through 15 have their own names, while the names for the rest of the numbers follow a pattern.
You'll see that the verb " ser " "to be" goes before the time. This will always be " son ", except for when you're saying "one'o'clock", when it will be " es ". It's feminine because it's referring to " la hora ".
Again, this will always be " las ", except in the case of one'o'clock, when it's the singular " la ", because it's just one hour. In many Spanish-speaking countries, you'll use the hour clock, so you won't need to clarify whether that dentist appointment is at two in the afternoon, or two in the morning.
But in a lot of Spanish-speaking countries, you wouldn't roll out the " de la noche " until around 8pm. Most of the time it won't be exactly 2'o'clock, so here's how to deal with that:. Did you see how there are two ways of saying " twenty to two " or " quarter to two "? Just like we can either say "it's one forty" or "it's twenty to two", you can do the same thing in Spanish. When you want to talk about what time a class is, or what time you'll meet someone, you'd use "at" in English.
In Spanish you'll use " a las
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