If you are in the process of learning English, you just need to know the name of the days of the week in English. The topic is simple, the words are simple, but meanwhile they will be useful to you during everyday communication with native speakers or in the office, when you work with programs in English.
How easy is it to remember the days of the week in English?
Below you can see the days of the week with transcription in English. Read them out loud. Take your time, repeat each title several times. You can also open the application with a translator on your smartphone and listen to these words so that they better settle in your memory. This will be more effective than just reading the days of the week in English with a translation.
As you know, words are best taught in context. Therefore, under each day of the week in English, read the phrases that serve as the context for these words. The main task now is to remember them, so try to read sentences with expression, emotionally coloring them. This is a great way to learn them faster and more reliably. It really works much better than just learning the days of the week in English with translation. Turn on the imagination and come up with your associations to each of the words. Best of all, of course, right away in English - after all, your task is to learn the days of the week in English, in Russian you already know them perfectly.
But what if, after all, new words do not want to fit into your head? A good way to learn the days of the week in English is to hang a calendar in English at home or in the workplace. Choose such that the font was large and bright. You need words to catch your eye: every time you plan a meeting or any business and refer to your calendar, you will see the names of the days of the week in English.
Table with translation, transcription and examples
| Title | Transcription | Transfer | Example |
| Monday | ['mʌndei] | Monday | - Are you all right? - I am okay, yes. I just hate Mondays, and you know it. - Are you okay? “I'm fine, yes.” I just hate Mondays, and you know that. |
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| Tuesday | ['tju: zdei] | Tuesday | - Hey, I have news for you. John will arrive on Tuesday morning. “Hey, I have news for you.” John will arrive on Tuesday morning. |
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| Wednesday | ['wenzdei] | Wednesday | - Good bye! See you on Wednesday. - Bye! See you on Wednesday. |
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| Thursday | [ˈΘɜːzdei] | Thursday | - What day is it today, Tom? - Today is Thursday. “What day is it, Tom?” - Today is Thursday. |
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| Friday | ['fraidei] | Friday | - Friday is our half day off. “We have a short day [at work] on Friday.” |
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| Saturday | ['sætədei] | Saturday | - Just imagine, we go shopping every Saturday. I'm tired of it. - Keep calm, Zeek. My wife and I go shopping every Saturday too. I don't like it, but she does. “Just imagine, we go shopping every Saturday.” I'm already tired of this. - Calm down, Zeke. My wife and I also go shopping every Saturday. I don’t like it, but she loves it. |
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| Sunday | ['sʌndei] | Sunday | Let me see ... Wow, your birthday falls on Sunday! Let me see ... Wow, your birthday is Sunday!
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Now you have familiarized yourself with the days of the week in English along with their translation. As you can see, everything is simple: only the first half of the word changes, and the second always remains in place. Is it true, it sounds much easier than in Russian?
Learning the days of the week in English using idioms
By the way, in English there are many interesting idioms about the days of the week. Here are just a few of them. If you remember even a few of these idioms, you can make your speech more lively and, of course, better understand native speakers. Let's try!
- Blue Monday - so briefly it can be expressed what Monday is a difficult day, how difficult it is to go to work after the weekend. The phrase eloquently reflects the longing for the past weekend.
- Monday feeling - Americans say so, expressing a feeling of disgust for work when there is absolutely no desire to work after the weekend. Is it true that most of us know Monday feeling?
- Black Monday - 1) If you heard this idiom in a conversation, then the expression may be slang. Students use it, and it means the first day after their holidays. It is easy to imagine with what reluctance students take to study after the holidays, how they do not like this date. 2) Also, these words denote Monday at Thomas' week (church).
- To keep Saint Monday - the phrase means "take a break from a hangover." No comment here.
- Man Friday is a devoted servant, a person who can help and who can be trusted (this expression appeared on behalf of the character of Friday in the book "Robinson Crusoe").
- Girl Friday - an office assistant who holds a low position; girl working as a secretary.
- With the same meaning they also say: " a person Friday."
- To have a Friday face / a Friday look - have a gloomy expression on your face, a sort of gloomy mine. To imagine this well, remember, for example, the physiognomy of passengers in the subway early on Monday morning.
- Good Friday - (Church): Good Friday, Friday on Holy Week.
- Saturday night special - there can be several meanings: 1) special “Saturday offer” - sale, goods with a good discount; 2) Saturday evening issue, hastily filmed program; 3) cheap stuff (slang expression); 4) the so-called cheap pocket gun (slang expression); 5) "Saturday Night Surprise" - the situation in the United States, when someone suddenly tries to take over the company, publicly offering to buy shares at a fixed price. Often such an offer is limited in time until the end of the week, and the transaction occurs at the end of the week.
- A month of Sundays - a very long time. A similar expression in Russian will be the phrase "forever." For example: "How long have you been choosing a dress? I have been waiting for you for ages!".
- When two Sundays come together, you can literally translate "when two Sundays meet," which means never. The phrase is comparable to our phraseological units “after a rain on Thursday”, and “when the cancer on the mountain whistles” is also suitable here.
- Sunday's child - 1) a child who was born on Sunday; 2) a lucky person.
- Sunday driver - 1) a driver who drives only on Sundays / weekends; 2) a poor driver, slow, possibly inexperienced (the phrase as if hints that such a poor driver can only be driven on Sundays when there is not so much traffic on the roads).
- Sunday clothes or Sunday best - the best (beautiful, festive) outfits. Clothes "on the way out" for some special occasions. An expression has appeared thanks to the tradition of dressing the newest and best clothing for Sunday church service.
Repetition - the mother of learning
Now that you have a little "revived" the days of the week in English by reading examples and idioms with them, you will definitely remember them. The main thing - do not forget to repeat! One of the best memorization techniques is this: you need to repeat the word immediately after learning, then after half an hour, then after a few hours, a day, after 2-3 weeks and, finally, after a couple of months. This repetition mode was developed on the basis of patterns that the German psychologist German Ebbinghaus identified back in 1885. He was seriously involved in the experimental study of memory. The “Memory Curve” presented by him is well known all over the world, and the memory technique described above is also widely used.
Try this method and you, then a new word will be reliably imprinted in your memory!