Time Traveler
Tell the time, name any day or month, and pin down real plans out loud.
Ask with ¿Qué hora es? — and answer with son las for every hour except one o'clock: Son las dos, but Es la una. Add y media for half past, y cuarto for quarter past, and if the time actually matters, say en punto — because ahorita in Mexico can mean five minutes or two hours, and la hora latina makes arriving a bit late socially normal. One more thing that flags a learner: days and months are lowercase in Spanish — lunes, enero, never capitalized mid-sentence.
Below: the days, the months, and the clock phrases lesson by lesson, the cultural time-traps — and a way to schedule real plans out loud, no clock worksheets.
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Regional Spanish
Textbooks teach one word. Locals use several — pick your region's and stay consistent.
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Olivia
Your vocabulary teacher for this pack
No clock faces to label, no calendar drills. In the Time Traveler lessons, Olivia makes you use time the way you will in the street: she asks ¿Qué hora es? and you answer for real — Son las dos y media. Then you're confirming a restaurant reservation by phone: day, date, time, and you repeat each back once to lock it in — en punto if it has to be exact. By the last lesson, el finde has plans on it, in Spanish.
Blank mid-sentence and nothing bad happens — she waits. That's the practice, without unnecessary judgement.
Finish the 5 lessons and Time Traveler is yours — earned, not given.
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Quick answers
¿Qué hora es? is the standard everywhere. In Mexico you'll also hear the very colloquial ¿qué horas son? — plural, technically ungrammatical, completely normal in speech.
Es la una — one o'clock is the only singular hour. Everything else takes the plural: son las dos, son las tres.
No. Write lunes and enero, not Lunes or Enero — they're only capitalized at the start of a sentence. It's one of the easiest ways to spot (or stop being) a beginner in writing.
Anywhere from five minutes to two hours — it is deliberately not literal, like al rato. If you genuinely need an exact time, the key phrase is en punto: a las 3 en punto.
Y media is half past and y cuarto is quarter past — son las dos y media. Quarter to is menos cuarto, and Argentines round loosely with las dos y pico — a little after two.
