Coffee Break Spanish - 3 fun expressions with 'estar' & how to use them | A Coffee Break with Anabel

Episode Date: August 7, 2025

Join Anabel from the Coffee Break Spanish team in a little espresso lesson in between the main seasons of Coffee Break Spanish.Today, we’ll have a closer look at three expressions that use the verb estar, like estar al loro. Ready to sound more like a native speaker in your next adventure?✅ Subscribe to the Coffee Break Spanish and discover more content like this by clicking here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to Coffee Break Spanish. I'm Annabelle. My name is Annabelle, and I am very happy to be here because I'm bringing you a little espresso episode in between main seasons of scenes from the Coffee Break Spanish Cafe. And in today's episode, I'm bringing you some expressions that use the verb estar. And what I like about these expressions is that they are very useful because you can use them in your day-to-day conversations. Actually, recently, in the team, we have been working on creating more a coffee break with type of videos for coffee break TV. And the videos are about expressions that you can use on a regular basis on your conversations. So if you are a member of the club, keep an eye on it so you don't miss them.

If you are not a member yet, but would like to, you can visit coffeebreaktivy.com. But well, in this episode, we're going to be looking at other expressions. In this episode, we are going to be looking at other expressions. Three expressions in total and the three of them use the verb start. We'll see the first one. The first one is

Estar Asta in La Sopa. I am a big fun of having soup any time of the year. So I feel I have to start with This literally means to be even in the soup. If something is even in the soup, it means that it's everywhere. We use this idiom to express that someone or a certain topic is everywhere. It's mainstream. Let's see one example.

Taylor Swift and his concertos, they're still in la Sopa Taylor Swift and his concerts means

Taylor Swift and her concerts and then we have our expression They

are they are everywhere they ask Taylor Swift and her concerts

are everywhere they are mainstream perfect that was our first expression the next

one is Estar Al Loro. For example, Me Encanta

Estar Al Loro of the ultimas tendencies. Here we are using

the idiom Estar al Loro which literally means to be to the

parrot. Of course this doesn't make any sense in English. This expression means

to keep yourself updated about a particular topic or that you are aware of something that goes on about something. So then, Me Encaanta Estar al-Loro of Las Ultimas Tendizias, means that I love to be up-to-date the latest trends, or I love to be in the know about the latest trends.

So you like to be keep in the loop of what's going on related to the latest. trends, the last tendencies. Let's see one more example. Estas

al-a-loro de la situation political. Here we are using start a loto and

then de la situation political of the political situation. So this

can be translated as are you aware of the political situation? Do you

keep yourself updated with the political situation? So as

you can see, Estar a lot is a very useful expression. Now, if someone not is a loro of something that's after in the or in other words, they don't know what's mainstream,

what's going on, then we can use another expression. Estar in las nubes. Estar in las nubes or to be in the clouds is used to say that someone is distracted or not paying attention or that they don't know much about a certain popular topic. Let's see an example.

Como no says who is that you're in the news? How do not know who is that gives us our context? It means how is it possible that you don't know who that actor is. And then we have our expression. Estes in las nubes. You have your head in the clouds. How is it possible, no,

that you don't know who that actor is? You have your head in the clouds. We can also use Estar in Las Nouvees as to be distracted. For example, Los Travadores are in Las Nubes those Biernes for the

Tard. Los workers are distracted. Los Viernes for the day.

On Friday afternoons. Okay, perfect. Then to wrap up, we have seen three expressions using Estar.

Estar Asta in the soup to be mainstream, to be everywhere. Estar a loro.

to be up to date, and to be distracted. Well, well, that's all for this video. If you would like to keep improving your Spanish, you can receive regular free mini lessons straight to your inbox by signing up to our newsletter. Just go to coffeebreaklanguages.com slash Spanish.

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