In this lesson you will be learning about the days of the month, the months themselves and the year. 

Days of the week:

There are obviously seven days of the week but on a Spanish calendar (Calendario) the week begins with monday not sunday. Just a little fun fact.

Monday- lunes
Tuesday- martes
Wednesday- miércoles (accent over the 'e')
Thursday- jueves
Friday- viernes
Saturday- sábado (accent over the first 'a')
Sunday- domingo

NEVER EVER capitalize the days of the week. Why? No idea but you just don't, keep them lower case at all times.

-> in spanish, there are 2 groups of substantives: nombres propios ("own names") and the rest of the substantives. The "own names" or nombres propios are those names of things that belong only to that thing.
An easy example about this are the names of people. Juan, Alex, Benjamin -> they're all capitalized, because those are names that belong to people.
Same thing happens with all the names, such as river Thames (río Támesis) or names of streets or bridges or buildings.
When you capitalize in spanish, you mean that's a personal name or something special. The nombres propios are supposed to design a one and only thing. Months and days of the week get repeated month after month and year after year, so they are not capitalized - same as you wouldn't capitalize "table" - there are a million tables around the world.

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The months of the year or Meses as they are known in Spanish are the same as the days of the week in that they can't be uppercase (unless they're the first word in a sentence of course)! There are 12 months in a year as expected and they're close to English, so they're not that difficult to learn.

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

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Now when you write the date you can write the traditional - June 14, 2005. You would have to write it like this:

14 de junio de 2005 or to make life easier 14.6.05
-> NOTE: in spanish the DAY goes before the MONTH. It goes from the smallest unit to the biggest, so it's day, month and year.

Now should you want to type out your day and year digits then you use the normal numeral systems learned in previous and later lessons.

Ejemplo: December 23, 2007

Repuesta: veinte tres de diciembre de dos mil siete

Seeing as it's going to be 2000 for the next thousand years, for the year all you need to write is 'dos mil ___'
The blank spot is where you put the digits that are not in thousands place, ie. everything but the first '2'.

2007 - dos mil siete
2249 - dos mil doscientos cuarenta y nueve
2999 - dos mil novacientos noventa y nueve


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Keep in mind that the date is said exactly as it's written (obviously :P) and you can't really get away with exceptions. I haven't been to a Spanish speaking country to justify this but I know you'd sound silly if you said the date '23 december 2007' here so I can assume.

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