Dicho español · Spanish proverb
«El que mucho duerme, poco aprende.»
Word for word
He who much sleeps, little learns.
What it really means
The closest English equivalent: He who sleeps a lot learns little.
Used to encourage productivity and discourage laziness; often said to students or young people who oversleep.
Hear it in a sentence
Levántate ya, que el que mucho duerme, poco aprende.
Get up already, because he who sleeps a lot learns little.
Why learn dichos?
Proverbs like this one are everywhere in spoken Spanish — dropped mid-conversation, usually just the first half, with the rest left for you to complete. Recognizing them is one of the fastest ways to sound less like a textbook and follow real speech. Every Lingocito edition signs off with the dicho del día, so you meet one a day next to news written at your exact level.