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Spanish Lesson 3 - Time, Days and Months |
This lesson is to help you learn how to tell the time in Spanish and to know how to write and pronounce the days of the week and months of the year.
Tell the time
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| English
| Spanish
| Pronunciation
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What time is it?
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¿Qué hora es?
| keh or-ah es
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it’s 1
o´clock
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es la
una + “de la tarde” optional (pm)
| es la oo-na (de la tar-deh)
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es la
una + de la mañana (am)
| es la oo-na (de la man-ya-na)
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it’s 2
o´clock
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son las
dos
| song lass doss
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it’s 3
o´clock
| son las tres
| song lass tress
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it’s a quarter past two
| son las dos y cuarto
| song lass doss ee kwar-toe
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it’s
three twenty
| son las tres y veinte
| song lass tress ee baing-te
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it’s
four thirty
| son las cuatro y media
| song lass kwa-troh ee meth-ee-ah
| it's twenty to five
| son las cinco menos veinte
| song lass think-oh men-oss baing-te
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it’s
four forty
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son las
cuatro cuarenta
| song lass kwa-troh kwa-ren-ta
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it’s a
quarter to six
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son las
seis menos cuarto
| song lass say-z men-oss kwa-troh
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it’s
five fourty five
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son las
cinco cuarenta y cinco
| song lass think-oh kwa-ren-ta ee think-oh
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it’s
five to seven
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son las
siete menos cinco
| song lass see-et-eh men-oss think-oh
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it’s
six fifty five
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son las
seis cincuenta y cinco
| song lass say-z think-wen-ta ee think-oh
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Days of the week
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| Monday
| lunes
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loo-ness
| Tuesday
| martes
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mar-tess
| Wednesday
| miércoles
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mee-er-co-less
| Thursday
| jueves
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chwe-vess (ch like in Welsh or Scottish)
| Friday
| viernes
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vee-er-ness
| Saturday
| sábado
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sa-bad-oh
| Sunday
| domingo
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dom-in-go
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Months of the year
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| January
| enero
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en-er-oh
| February
| febrero
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feb-rare-oh
| March
| marzo
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mar-th-oh
| April
| abril
| ab-reel
| May
| mayo
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ma-yo
(like yo-yo)
| June
| junio
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choo-knee-oh (Welsh and Scottish ch sound)
| July
| julio
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choo-lee-oh
| August
| agosto
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ah-gost-oh
| September
| septiembre
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set-ee-em-breh
| October
| octubre
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ok-too-breh
| November
| noviembre
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nov-ee-em-breh
| December
| diciembre
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dee-thee-em-breh
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