The days of the week in Spanish and English parallel each other in weird, eerie detail.
Lets start with the most obvious: Monday. It was originally the Moon-day — the day to worship the Moon.
The Latins felt the same way — and thus Lunes comes from Luna, the Latin for moon!
Stay tuned for the next installments, where it gets more interesting. A hint: Thursday = Thor’s Day; Jueves = Jove’s Day.
Nerds love to pattern-match, to find commonalities among everything. Our approach to learning languages revolves (the same -volve- that is in “volver”, to “return”) around connecting the Spanish words to the related English words via their common etymologies – to find the linguistic patterns, because these patterns become easy triggers to remember what words mean. Want to know more? Email us and ask:
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