I asked Sandra Salsbury (the main artist for the Most Awesome Lists) if I could commission her to create images that could be used to learn the 7 days of the week in any language without using translations. She delivered some wonderful paintings. Enjoy!
Sunday:
Monday:
Tuesday:
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday:
Saturday:
Here is another format so the week starts on Monday
Monday:
Tuesday:
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday:
Saturday:
Sunday:
Purchased your book and i am very pleased its information. Really makes learning a new language lots of fun.
Nice series for us yanks. I believe most of Western Europe thinks the week starts with Monday though.
Isn’t that why they call it weekEND, so at the end of the week it is Saturday and Sunday?
No we don’t.
So in Chinese these images are not quite as helpful – the first day of the week is Monday (instead of the Sun-Sat week, their week is Mon-Sun). Monday = Xīngqí yī (week 1) Maybe reorienting the dates on the bottom would be helpful in that case. If you truly want to “think” in Chinese it is helpful to view Monday as the first/starting day of the week.
Not everyone works, you know? 😉
These are great – and thanks for the plan to have a ‘Monday first’ series. It sounds like a small thing but I get sooo confused when I have to use a calendar where the week starts with a Sunday! It just makes sense to me to have the weekend days together…
Regarding the day of the week image issues we just commissioned new versions this week and it should be ready in about a week.
Hello, Gabriel.
Great site, and great images.
I have a question. People are supposed to make their own images, I know, but it takes time, and I wonder what you think about beginning to sell a deck a white flashcards that have an image on one side and let’s the user write (with a crayon or pencil) the name of the word on the other side, for the 625 words?
@LikeaRollingStone That’s partially what the trainers are but as far as word list goes, the point is to make your own because it helps your learning process
-Rachel (assistant)
The drawings are great, but quite culturally biased. For instance, for Arabic (and certain Muslim countries), I would expect to see Thursday as the end of the work week instead of Friday, and Sunday as the start of the week instead on Monday. Drinking in a bar might not be the best example for a typical Saturday night activity either!
🙂 You got to that comment before me, though I would have said it differently. They probably weren’t being biased, just drawing out of all the cultural awareness they had or were thinking of at the time. There is a lot to consider and maybe impossible to make one set that is perfectly suitable for all cultures . . .
These are great! Arigato-gozimasu, Sore wa arigataidesu
Thanks! These are great.
As far as the image fitting the day of the week…. just rearrange the image to fit your personal image or mood for that day of the week or find your own that fits your mood for that day. For example for me, Wednesday is Tai Chi evening, Saturday is a shopping/cleaning/work on Anki decks/study MOOCs day for me, while Sunday is Church, visit friends, park ormuseum/ as well as a continuation of work on Anki decks/study MOOCs day.
Great idea! Fellow (modern) Hebrew learners will want to modify the images. Our weekend is Friday and Saturday, making Sunday the first day of the work week and Tuesday “Hump Day.”
For those willing to substitute own calendar highlights and numbers for the calendar strip at the bottom, using numbers 1 through 7 (instead of 19-26) for the dates could take advantage of an inherent mnemonic – many days of the week are named the number position the day holds in the week (with Sunday as #1).
Great pictures, if the pictures don’t fit into your culture/calendar stop complaining here, instead, just search another pictures or do it yourself, because this is usefull for a lot of people for several countries and the pictures don’t be modified just because you want it.
Hello, Gabriel! What beautiful images. I am reading your book, Forever Fluent, right now. I bought it for myself (learning languages is a passion of mine; I speak English and Spanish fluently, and learned (and forgot!) French, Greek, and Hebrew) but it is also turning out to be more useful for *teaching* English than I had expected. (I teach English as a Foreign Language to kindergarteners in Lima, Peru.)
Also, I must add, I love your writing style. It is personable, chatty, and witty. Reading your book is quite delightful; I’m having trouble putting it down to go do important stuff (you know, like work, dishes, sleep, all that stuff).
Thank you so much for saying so! And I’m very glad to hear it’s been helpful in your teaching, as well.