There are two questions commonly used to ask about days and dates. ¿Qué fecha es? (What is the date?)... to which we would respond with the previously mentioned structure. Hoy es el 15 de octubre. (Today is October 15th.)
¿Qué fecha es? is used to ask about the date, but if we wanted to ask which day of the week it is today, then we ask what is below.
¿Qué día es hoy?
To respond to this question we would use the structure:
Hoy es (día de la semana).
Let's look again at those two questions and answers.
¿Qué fecha es hoy? (What is the date today?)
Hoy es el 15 de octubre (Today is October 15th.)
Y, ¿qué día es hoy? (And, what is the day today?)
Hoy es martes. (Today is Tuesday.)
In the dialogue, we mention hoy, or today. Other key vocabulary to talk about days and dates are:
ayer (yesterday) and mañana (tomorrow).
La semana means week and el fin de semana (weekend).
But, how do we talk about the day on which something occurs? For example, 'On Monday I have my Spanish class.'
El lunes tengo mi clase de español. (On Monday I have my Spanish class.)
Note that we say 'el' lunes and not 'en' lunes.
If we have our Spanish class every Monday, we would make the 'el' plural and say
Los lunes tengo mi clase de español. (On Mondays I have my Spanish class.)
