December – diciembre
(Pronounced dee-see-em-bray)
To remember that December is pronounced dee-see-em-bray (diciembre) in Latin American Spanish, use the following mnemonic:
At Christmas (December), I like to go deep-sea fishing and embrace (diciembre) the cold weather.
NOTE: The way Mammoth Memory remembers December is to think of Christmas. See our Remembering Months section.
Please also note that names of the months in Spanish do NOT have a capital letter at the start, so it's diciembre, NOT Diciembre.
In Spanish, all of the months of the year are masculine, so it’s el enero, el febrero, el marzo, el abril, el mayo, el junio, el julio, el agosto, el septiembre, el octubre, el noviembre and el diciembre.
Imagine elephants that take a bath once a month.