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Skip the reading and go straight to the Days and Months in Spanish Video. Although, I’ve found that reading each Spanish lesson first, helps in understanding it all.

Here are the days of the week in Spanish (los días de la semana):

lunes — Monday
martes — Tuesday
miércoles — Wednesday
jueves — Thursday
viernes — Friday
sábado — Saturday
domingo — Sunday

All of the days of the week are masculine–el lunes, el martes, etc., so I’ve left that off the list–see my lesson on Spanish noun gender for a brief explanation. When you want to say “On Saturday…” (or any other day), ‘on’ is equal to el (or los) in Spanish. For example:

El sabado voy a la playa. — On Saturday I'm going to the beach.
Los viernes no trabajamos. — On Fridays we don't work.

Perhaps you’ve noticed already that in Spanish, the days of the week are not capitalized. Something to be aware of if you want to learn how to write Spanish (or know what you’re looking at when reading Spanish).

Here are the months of the year in Spanish (los meses del año):

enero — January
febrero — February
marzo — March
abril — April
mayo — May
junio — June
julio — July
agosto — August
septiembre — September
octubre — October
noviembre — November
diciembre — December

The names of the months in Spanish are also, not capitalized.

So, what do you say if a friend asks you:

"¿Cuándo es tu cumpleaños?" — When is your birthday?

If it’s on Tuesday, the 18th of August, you would say:

"El martes, dieciocho de agosto." — On Tuesday, the 18th of August.

Note: The literal translation for ‘eighteenth’ (18th) is decimoctava, but I don’t think ordinal numbers are used after ‘tenth’ (décimo(a)) in Spanish–a subject for another lesson.

Here are some Spanish words I’ve presented in this lesson:

(el) día — day
(la) semana — week
(el) mes — month
(el) año — year
(el) cumpleaños — birthday

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Not too difficult, is it? Well, keep practicing, and…

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The literal answer to the question: How do you say “who’s there?” in Spanish? — would be:

"¿Quién es allí?" — Who's There?

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…but this is the automatic translation and is generally incorrect.

The slightly longer answer to the question of how to say “Who’s there?” in Spanish, is: It depends on your motive for asking the question and to whom you are asking it. If, for example, you’re on the phone and your friend says to you:

"Ven a mi casa." — Come over to my house.

…and you want to ask her “Who’s there?” (because you don’t want to go if her ex-husband is there), you would say:

¿Quién más está allá? — Who's there? (who [else] is there?)

If you want to answer the door (someone’s knocking), you would say:

¿Quién es? — Who is it? (an English speaker might say "Who's there?")

As you can see, we did not say “¿Quién es allí?” — the allí is implied.

If you want to answer the phone (and the inconsiderate person on the other end hasn’t identified themselves) you could say “¿Quién es?” but, to be polite you may want to say:

¿De parte de quién? -- Who's calling? (literally, 'on whose part', like, to whom am I speaking?)

I hope this helped you figure out who’s there.

Allí, allá and ahí will be the topic of the next lesson.

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Has someone ever asked you what your name is in Spanish? Well, they have asked me. The name Alex in Spanish would be Alejandro if my name was Alexander. It is not. Just plain old, Alex. So, in Spanish my name is…Alex. If you like, you can say it with a Spanish pronunciation, which brings me to the subject of name inquiry.

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How do ask someone what their name is in Spanish? Or, how do you know when someone is asking you what your name is? Here’s how:

¿Cómo te llamas?

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The literal translation is ‘How you are called?’ However, it really means ‘What is your name?’ — that’s just how Spanish speakers do it. You could say:

¿Cuál es su nombre?

…which does translate to ‘What is your name?’ But if you do, you’ll be revealing that you really don’t know Spanish. However, you may be asked for your name with ¿Cuál es su nombre? if, for example, someone wants your name to fill out a form, application, etc., so be aware of that possibility.

Up to now, I’ve given you a way to ask someone their name if you want to be their friend or consider yourself “equals” with that person. As you will discover while learning Spanish, there are two forms of address in Spanish–familiar and formal. Without going into detail here, what you need to know at a minimum is; when addressing an authority figure–your teacher, your girlfriend’s parents, etc.–use the formal form of address.

How do you ask your girlfriend’s father what his name is? (if she forgot to introduce you!) Here’s how:

¿Cómo se llama, usted?

Ok, you say. I’ve got it. Now, how do I answer them when they ask me what my name is in Spanish? If your name is Alex, you say:

Me llamo Alex.

That’s it. Easy huh? Of course I haven’t discussed the “why” of it here. If you’re curious and would like to know more, here are some more in-depth online Spanish lessons–and, they’re free:

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What is your name in Spanish? Leave a comment and I’ll look it up for you.