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The Days of the Week ...
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Húi !!! |
| El
día trece ... |
| Trece
es el número de
la mala suerte ... |
la
suerte |
"Buena
suerte" is "Good luck." |
"Mala
suerte" is "Bad Luck." |
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| Yesterday
you learned the days of the week ... didn't you? |
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go through them again right now: |
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| Notice
that the days of the week are NOT capitalized. |
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English, when we say the day of the week, we often
add "on" - although it doesn't have to be there. |
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following sentence can be finished in two ways in
English: |
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We're
gonna go out and work in your yard for you |
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on Monday. |
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...
Monday. |
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on Tuesday. |
or
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...
Tuesday. |
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on Wednesday. |
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...
Wednesday. |
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Spanish, when you're talking about something happening
on a certain day of the week, you
leave on the "el." |
| Whenever
you state on what days of the week you're
doing something |
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a certain day of the week: |
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every
certain day of the week: |
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| on
Monday (el lunes) |
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every
Monday (los lunes) |
| on
Tuesday (el martes) |
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every
Tuesday (los martes) |
| on
Saturday (el sábado) |
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every
Saturday (los sábados) |
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| There
isn't a word for "on"
in this instance, ... so don't try to put one there. |
| Go
through the days of the week over & over again,
calling to mind that in just saying the names (el
lunes, el martes, etc.) you're also implying "on"
that day of the week. |
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practice them in their plural forms respectively and
think about how you're saying every
Monday, every Tuesday,
etc. |
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Hoy
no es el lunes. |
Hoy
no es el martes. |
Hoy
no es el viernes. |
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ayer
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Hoy
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mañana
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yesterday |
today |
tomorrow |
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Starting Points in Language
Study:
Did you happen to pick up on what a diphthong
is in your pronunciation studies?
When you have 2 vowels together, they
CAN form a diphthong. Spanish has 2 weak
vowels: I
and U.
When either of these vowels is combined with another vowel,
they lose ground to the other vowel - whether it comes
first or second.
The other vowels: A,
E, and O
are strong vowels. They carry more weight (in pronunciation)
than the weak vowels.
What do you remember
about accents?
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