Spring months in English. Months in English or “Hello, January

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And here I posted the information as it will be in English

Seasons in English

• Winter - Winter - [ˈwintəɹ]
• Spring - Spring -
• Summer - Summer - [ˈsʌməɹ]
• Autumn – Autumn /brit/ – [ˈɔːtəm]
• Autumn - Fall - /amer/ -

Pronunciation of seasons - British accent

Pronunciation of month names - British accent

Pronunciation of the names of the months - American accent

It wouldn't hurt to hear how to pronounce the word Months. Pronunciation of this word sometimes causes difficulties, because... This word contains the sound ‘th’, which is difficult to pronounce for Russians.
And also, below, I have posted sentences with translation using the months of the year in English.

How to pronounce Months in English

1. What season is now? What time of year is it now?
2. When is New Year? When is New Year?
3. When is your birthday? When's your birthday?

Example answers:

1. It's Summer. It's Spring. It's summer, spring.
2. In Winter. New Year in winter.
3. In Fall. My birthday is in the fall.

Sentences with months of the year in English with translation

1. I’ll see you in January. See you in January.
2. In February it snows a lot. There is a lot of snow in February.
3. In March it seems like it’s always raining. It always seems to rain in March.
4. Last April we went to Europe. Last April we went to Europe.
5. My birthday is May 5th. My birthday is May 5th.
6. In June Summer begins. Summer begins in June.
7. In July we celebrate the birthday of America. In July we celebrate America's birthday.
8. In August it’s always so hot. It's always so hot in August.
9. In September we begin our school year. Our school year begins in September.
10. October is the beginning of Fall. October is the beginning of autumn.
11. November is my favorite month. November is my favorite month.
12. In December we have Christmas. We have Christmas in December.

Learning the months in English is as easy as shelling pears, because their names come from the Latin language and, to some extent, resemble their Russian counterparts. It would be more interesting to learn a little about the history of the origin of these “names,” as well as some grammatical rules associated with their use in speech. So, go ahead!

Months in English: writing, transcription, usage

We write and pronounce correctly!

“How can I list the English months in order?” - those who are just beginning to master the wisdom of a foreign language will ask. Greet them one by one!

NB! And remember that their names (as well as the names of the days of the week and seasons) should be written with a capital letter!

In this table we have indicated the months in English with transcription so that pronouncing them will not cause you any difficulties. To create a “complete picture of the year”, get acquainted with the seasons:

NB! The American version of the word “Autumn” is Fall.

Example sentences:

My favorite month is June. – My favorite month is June.

I arrived in Saint-Petersburg last September. – I arrived in St. Petersburg last September.

Name all the seasons and months

Let's learn to use it in speech!

In order to correctly use the months of the year in English in speech, both written and oral, you need to learn the following rules.

1. In writing, you should separate the day and month from the year using a comma:

   The house was built in October, 2003. – The house was built in October 2003.

2. When specifying dates in full (including day, month, year), it is necessary to use ordinal numbers to indicate the number and cardinal numbers for the year:

   on 23 February, 1478 = on the twenty third of February, fourteen seventy eight (February 23, 1478)

   NB! In such cases, we omit “year” in speech.

Prepositions with months in English

Regarding grammatical points, it is worth paying attention to the following:

• Prepositions are not used in expressions like “*** + name of the month” with the words one, next, last, this/that, every, all, any.

  I was in Moscow last June. – I was in Moscow last June.

  I’m going to my cousin this March. – I'm going to visit my cousin this March.

• The preposition IN is used with the name of the month in time circumstances.

  In May - in May, late in August - at the end of August.

• The preposition ON is necessary when, in addition to the month, there is an indication of a date or day.

  On January 2, 1389 – January 2, 1389, on a warm September day – a warm September day.

• The preposition OF is needed if the attributive function of the month is implied.

Let's get acquainted with abbreviations!

The information will be incomplete if we do not talk about the reduction of months in English. Similar abbreviations are often found on various forms, travel tickets and, of course, calendars.

NB! Short forms generally contain only three letters. Exceptions are June, July (where you can keep the word unchanged) and September (2 options are allowed here: Sept and Sep).

Abbreviations, like full forms, are always written with a capital letter. A period is added at the end of the abbreviation in American English, or the punctuation mark is omitted if we are talking about the British version of the language.

Brief writing example

From the history of the names of the months

Surely, you will be interested to know why the months sound so similar in English and Russian. The reason is that they all come from Latin and have ancient Roman roots.

January, January - on behalf of the ancient Roman god Janus.

February, February - from the name of the Roman festival of cleansing Februa.

March, March – on behalf of the ancient Roman god Mars (Martius/Mars).

April, April - on behalf of the ancient Greek goddess Aphrodite (Aphrilis).

May, May - on behalf of the ancient Greek nymph, one of the lovers of Zeus, Maya (Maius).

June, June - on behalf of the ancient Roman goddess Juno.

July, July – on behalf of the famous Julius Caesar (Julius). It was he who began to reform the Roman calendar.

Augustus, August – on behalf of the equally famous Octavian Augustus. And he completed the reform of the calendar.

September, September - from septem (seven, seventh month).

October, October - from octo (eighth, eighth month).

November, November – from novem (nine, ninth month).

December, December – from decem (ten, tenth month).

12 months in English: for children and more

With the help of various pictures-schemes, you can start studying the months and seasons even with preschoolers; bright colors and funny drawings will be interesting to them:

Studying with children

To remember the number of days in each month, you can use an interesting poem:

Another interesting exercise that will be interesting for both children and adults is “Names of the months in English: name, write, draw.” Make 12 abbreviation cards, either with only the first letters or with numbers from 1 to 12. Turn them over with the pictures facing down. Pulling out one at a time, say the name of the corresponding month, write its name on a piece of paper and next to it draw an association picture with this month.

Thus, with various exercises and training, you will achieve brilliant results in a short time and learn the names of all months in English.

Mini-lesson for remembering the names of the months:

Each of us is looking forward to some event: a birthday, a wedding, the onset of the summer holidays. Have you ever counted down the months or weeks until the big day? How the names of the months, seasons and days of the week will sound in English will be discussed in the article.

Seasons

Dates, seasons and months are usually studied in the very first English lessons. This is necessary, because dates and numbers often appear in oral speech and on the pages of documents.

Before learning the names of the months in English, you need to understand the seasons. Their names are not consonant with the Russian version:

1. Spring - sounds like [sprin]. Translated it means "spring".
2. Summer. Transcription [same] - summer.
3. But autumn has several sound options, depending on what country you are in. For Britain it sounds like autumn [autumn]. In American, autumn is written and sounds like Fall [foul]. The vowel in this case is pronounced protractedly.
4. Winter. The transcription looks like this: [uinte]. The first two vowels are pronounced quickly so that the sound is similar to Russian [v], but softer.

Months in English

Now that the seasons have been sorted out, we can move on to the months. Below are the names of the months in English with pronunciation in Russian:

1. Junuary [jenyo:ri] - January.
2. February [February] - February.
3. March [ma:h] - March.
4. - April.
5. May [may] - May.
6. June [jun] - June.
7. July [julay] - July.
8. August [August] - August.
9. September [septembe] - September.
10. October [oktoube] - October.
11. November [novembe] - November.
12. December [desembe] - December.

Pay attention to the names of the months in English with transcription: the colon in it indicates, according to the rules, the longitude of the pronounced sound. The letter r at the end is not readable.

Rules related to months and seasons in English

The use of month names in English in speech and writing follows certain rules that are easy to remember:

1. Month names in English are always capitalized.
2. The day of the month is separated by a comma from the year. For example, like this: It happened in August, 1982. It happened in August 1982.
3. If you need to put a date in writing, use the abbreviation: Dec 17, Nov 22. Please note that the name of the month comes first with a capital letter, and then the number.

Use of articles and prepositions

Articles and prepositions often cause difficulties when learning English. We will analyze further what prepositions are used with the names of months.

The following prepositions are used with the word month:

1. By meaning "every month".
2. For a when you need to say that the action takes place throughout the month.
3. In a if you want to say that some action will happen in a month.
4. If a sentence contains a temporary circumstance, for example, when you need to say that something happened in May, the preposition is used in: My son was born in May. - My son was born in May. When a specific date is required, the preposition changes to on: My son was born on 13 of May. - My son was born on May 13.

When articles and prepositions are not used

Prepositions are not used if words such as:

• This - these.
• Every - everyone.
• All - everything.
• Any - any.
• Next - next
• Each - which.

And also when using the seasons together with these particles: I"l study English next week. - I will study English next week.

How can a child remember the seasons and days of the week?

How to help your child remember the names of the months of the year in English? The best way to memorize, of course, is in the form of a game. Beautiful pictures with the names of the months, similar to those given here, coloring pages and copybooks with your favorite characters, songs and poems, as well as simple but effective exercises will help you. Every child has a favorite toy. Invite your child to tell his soft friend the words he has learned, or to retell a passage of text with new words.

Examples of exercises in English

With the help of the proposed exercises, you can not only learn the names of the months in English with transcription, but also consolidate any lexical material without the usual memorization. Their significant advantage is that not only the sound is remembered, but also the spelling of the words being studied.

Exercise 1

Match the names of the months in English with transcription and translation:

Exercise 2

Translate the sentences into Russian, find the correct statements:

It's raining in June.

The weather is fine on May.

September is the first month of the year.

The weather is still cold in April.

Exercise 3

It can be used for any words that you are going to reinforce. Its essence is that the letters in the letter are rearranged, and you need to return them to the correct sequence. For greater effectiveness, it is recommended to perform it in pairs or in a small group.

Poems for remembering the months in English

Short memory poems will help you quickly and easily learn the names of the months in English with translation:

• January is coming to us, hello, Christmas tree, New Year.
• Blizzards rush across the ground - February is outside.
• Can you hear the icicles crying? March is coming to us soon.
• April begins, streams run along the roads.
• It's May outside the window today - holidays are at the door.
• A sea of ​​light and warmth - June - it's time for summer.
• On the July calendar - run, jump, sunbathe.
• August is in the yard - the harvest is on the table.
• The trees will put on a bright outfit, September will gather the children at school.
• Leaves are flying from the trees to the ground, October - hello, leaf fall.
• The birds have flown to where it is warm, which means November is knocking on the window.
• December will soon leave patterns on houses and trams.

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Learn and remember the names of the months in English in an easy and interesting way. This will be another step towards fluent conversation with native speakers. Thematic videos will help you master the language faster.

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The words in English that are responsible for the names of the months largely coincide in written and spoken versions with similar words in Russian and many European languages. This fact is not at all surprising: all these countries use the Gregorian calendar as the basis for calculating the year by months. Therefore, learning how to write and how to pronounce months in English is not at all difficult, but there are some nuances that are difficult.

Historical knowledge about the origin of these words will help you understand how months are written in English. Then memorizing them in writing and in speech will become meaningful and easier.

History of names

These words are not purely English in origin, but have Latin roots. Here is the path to development of each month's name with a brief background, as seen in writing and in modern English.

January

The first winter month in England before the introduction of the Gregorian calendar was called "Wulf (wolf) Month" (now and henceforth - first written in Old English). This meant “wolf month”, because during this period in England, due to cold weather and lack of food in the forests, wolves came out to villages and began to attack livestock, even people. The name we have now comes from the name of the two-faced Janus, the Roman god of the beginning and the end.

February

The second winter month in Britain was once called "Sprote Kale Month": this meant that cabbage (kale) began to sprout in the pantries. And in the ancient times of Rome, the month of February was a period of repentance, remission of sins, hence the origin of the name - in honor of the god of purification and remembrance of the dead, Februus.

March

The beginning of spring in the old English calendar was associated with strong winds, which is why this time was called “Hyld Month” - the month of winds. The Gregorian calendar system brought with it a word that arose from the god of war, Mars: March was for a long time in the Roman Empire the first month of the year, accordingly it was named after the main deity.

April

April, in which, with the introduction of Christianity in Britain, the holy holiday of Easter was always celebrated, was previously called “Easter Month” (Easter - Easter). The emergence of a later name is the subject of many years of debate among linguists. Some argue that the word arose from the name of the Greek goddess Aphrodite. Others are more inclined to the version that the ancestor of the word “April” in English was the Roman word “aperio”, meaning “to open, to bloom.” This option is more plausible, because it is in April that the leaves bloom on the trees and the first flowers appear in the meadows.

May

The wonderful month of May, when the meadows were covered with fresh grass, was called by the British in the old days “the month of triple milking” - “Thrimilce (three milk) Month”. The cows happily ate fresh grass after the boring winter hay and gave so much milk that they had to be milked three times a day. The Romans gave May the name in honor of the goddess Maia, who was highly revered by them as bringing fertility and prosperity.

June

June, due to the onset of droughts, was called in old England “Dere Month” (dere is the previous version of the word dry), that is, “dry month.” The Romans named this period in the calendar after Juno, the wife of Jupiter. The ancient goddess, patroness of marriages, was very loved by Roman women.

July

The British called the next summer month “Maed Month” (maed – modern meadow – meadow), “month of meadows”: flowers and herbs bloomed wildly in the pastures. The Romans based the name of July on the name of Emperor Julius Caesar, who was born in this month.

August

“Weod Month” (weed - herbs, plants) - this is what August was called in old England, because the harvesting of hay for the winter began. The Romans chose the nickname of Emperor Octavian Augustus for the name of this month: “August” meant “divine.”

September

“Harvest Month” or “harvest month” is the old name for the first autumn month. The Roman version comes from the number “sept” (seven): since March was once the first in the Roman calendar, September was correspondingly the seventh.

October

October, when they started making wine, the British called “Win ​​(modern wine) Month” - “wine month”. The Roman version is also associated with a number, specifically with the eighth place of October according to the old calendar - “octo” in Latin.

November

November was once called “Blod (blood) Month”, translated as “bloody month”. In the pre-Christian period, it was a time of sacrifices (sometimes even human) to pagan gods. The Romans, again, did not think too much and gave November a name based on the serial number from the Latin word “novem” - nine.

December

Before the introduction of the Gregorian calendar, the British called December “Halig (holy) Month”, that is, “holy month”: after all, Jesus Christ was born in December. The Romans again named the last month of the year by number, specifically “decem”, ten.

Seasons

From school lessons we know that the year consists of four seasons - seasons: winter, spring, summer, autumn.

Spelling months in English, their use with prepositions

The first information important to remember is: The month in English is always written with a capital letter and is not placed in front of it..

September is the least favorite month for me: I always have vocation in August and have to begin working in September.
September is my least favorite month: I always have a vacation in August, and in September I have to start work.

If the month is mentioned in speech as an adverbial of time, then the preposition in is used.

If it is possible, I would like to have vocation in August: I am planning to go to Anapa, and the weather in August there is the best.
If possible, I would like to get a vacation in August: I am planning to go to Anapa, and the weather there is the best in August.

However, if and is called together with the month, then the preposition on (hereinafter referred to as the ordinal number) is placed before the number, and the preposition of is placed before the month.

My nephew Tim was born on the second of December.
My nephew Tim was born on the second of December.

In combination with the words every (each), last (last), each (each), this (this) prepositions are not used.

Last January, I remember very well, the weather was cloudy and muddy.
Last January, I remember very well, the weather was cloudy and slushy.

This April we did not have days-off at all: we had a very busy schedule.
This April we had no days off at all: we had a very busy schedule.

Writing and pronouncing dates with months

Abbreviations

Abbreviating the names of months in English in writing (if necessary) is done as follows:

May, June, July never abbreviated, always written as a whole word;

September reduced to four letters, looks like the short version – Sept. (dot required);

the remaining months are shortened to three letters and must be followed by a period. For example, Jan.- this is the short version of January.

How to quickly learn the names of the months

The simplest and most effective way is poetry, songs and associations.

For example, here is a short children's song about the months of the year - a great way to memorize words for both children and adults.

And after reading this poem, you will certainly not forget the names of the months in English.

January brings the snow, (January brings snow)
Makes our feet and fingers glow. (Feet and fingers burn from the cold)
February snows again
And sometimes it brings us rain. (And sometimes it rains)
March brings sunny days and winds (March gives sunny days and wind)
So we know that spring begins. (So ​​we know that spring has begun.)
April brings the primrose sweet, (April brings sweet primroses,)
We see daisies at our feet. (We see daisies under our feet)
May brings flowers, joy and grass (May brings flowers, joy and herbs)
And the holidays for us. (And holidays for us.)
June brings tulips, lilies, roses. (June brings tulips, lilies, roses.)
Fills the children`s hands with poses. (Fills children's hands with bouquets.)
Hot July brings apples and cherries (Hot July gives apples and cherries)
And a lot of other berries. (And many other berries.)
August brings us golden corn, (August brings golden grains,)
Then the harvest home is borne. (Fills the bins with harvest.)
Warm September brings us school, (Warm September we go to school)
Days are shorter, nights are cool. (The days are shorter, the nights are colder.)
Fresh October brings much fruit (Fresh October brings a lot of fruit)
Then to gather them is good. (Which are so fun to collect.)
Red November brings us joy, (Red November brings us joy,)
Fun for every girl and boy. (Entertainment for every girl and boy)
Cold December brings us skating, (We go skating in Cold December)
For the New Year we are waiting. (And we are waiting for the New Year.)

P.S. You might be interested in reading about each month of the year.

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