Coffee Break Spanish - How to talk confidently about the weather | A Coffee Break with Anabel

Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome to Coffee Break Spanish. I'm Annabelle. My name is Annabel, and I am very happy to be in this episode with you. Here, at Coffee Break Spanish, we are enjoying working on our next podcast series for you. But in the meantime, I hope you enjoy this mini lesson. If this happens to be the very first episode of Coffee Break Spanish you are listening to, you should know that you can go back and learn Spanish right from the beginning by ordering the podcast episodes from the oldest and starting with copy break Spanish season one. As for this lesson, I would like to talk about something that in my experience is one of the biggest difficulties to learner of Spanish.

Starting point is 00:00:52 It is the weather. And so that it's a que a bit complicated in this is so because in Spanish we use different verbs

Starting point is 00:01:09 to English when we talk about the weather but not always. So that's why I thought it would be nice to revise some

Starting point is 00:01:17 common structures today. Perfecto, well here are a few basic expressions or structures that will

Starting point is 00:01:25 help you remember which verb we have to use in Spanish when talking about the weather. And we are going to start with Acer. Because Acer, as you may know, it's commonly used when talking about the weather. But not always, that's when the tricky part comes.

Starting point is 00:01:43 However, here is my tip for you. If we are talking about temperature, then we are going to be using Acer. And temperature is saying the degrees, saying if it's cold or if it's cold or if it's hot, that is temperature. And in these cases, we use Acer. For example, today today, it's hot because

Starting point is 00:02:09 it's 36 degrees. Today, it's hot because it's 36 degrees. In English, we are saying it's hot, it's 36 degrees. So we are using the verb

Starting point is 00:02:26 to be. But in Spanish, we use Acer. Ace Calor Ace 6 degrees. Perfect. Now, there is

Starting point is 00:02:38 one that it could look like an exception, but it is not. It is

Starting point is 00:02:43 it's windy. To say it's windy in Spanish, we use Acer. Its windy is

Starting point is 00:02:51 Ace viento. However, I don't think this is an exception. I love hiking and being outside.

Starting point is 00:02:58 And every time that I'm planning my hike, I always check the temperature. I always check if it's going to rain. And I always check if it's going to be windy. Because if it's windy, believe me, it's going to be colder. So it changes. It has an impact on the temperature. So here is my tip for you to remember that it's windy also uses azer in Spanish. So aster for temperature.

Starting point is 00:03:26 Now, we also use estar in Spanish, and we are going to use estar when we are talking about the appearance of the sky, how the sky looks like. For example, if it's cloudy, we can see the clouds in the sky, then we are going to use estar. It's cloudy is establedo. If it's clear, again talking about the sky appearance, then we are going to say, Estabespejado. And if we can see the sun, we can say, Estab soleado. Here I have a note that it's sunny is estat solado, but the preferred option in Spain is a

Starting point is 00:04:18 acesol. However, both are correct. So estar is used to talk about the sky appearance. Now, we also have weather verbs in Spanish, just like in English. We have jover to rain, nevar to snow, and granizar to hell. And remember that these are verbs. So we are going to conjugate them when we use them in a sentence. For example, It'ssayvian and ma'ana va a nevar. It's raining. And tomorrow, va a nevar. It's going to snow.

Starting point is 00:05:05 Fantastic. I hope you're following. Because we are just going to see the last structure, which is Ace plus time. So, ACA plus Tiempo and that Tiempo as weather, not time, bad weather. This is used to describe how the weather is, like if it's good weather, if it's bad weather, or how is the weather. So, for example, Ke tempo Aze Oi. So here we have Tiempo, and then we are going to use the verb Acer. What time, how is the weather today?

Starting point is 00:05:47 Or, for example, Ase very good time. It's very good weather. Vaya, menudo episode. But I think we have covered the majority of the topics that we can use to talk about the weather. Let's recap before we finish. We are going to use Acer when we talk about the temperature.

Starting point is 00:06:14 Estar when we talk about the sky appearance. We also have weather verbs like to rain, to snow, to hell. And we are going to use afe when we are talking about the weather in the sense of time. If it's good or bad weather or asking how is the weather. So for those cases, we use afer again. Now very quickly I'm going to give you some seconds to tell me a little bit about how the weather is like there where you are. What time does today there? How is the weather today there? Genial.

Starting point is 00:07:02 What good job. Here, the truth, is that it's that a little nubled. But a me me a lot because it's a lot of free. Here it's a little bit cloudy, but I like it because it's not too cold. Well, that I think is all for now. Don't forget to subscribe whatever you are listening to this episode for more content like this one. Also, 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.

Starting point is 00:07:44 Just go to coffeebreaklanguages.com slash Spanish. Now, so is all for now. I hope you have enjoyed

Starting point is 00:07:53 today's episode. Much animo like always and after the

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Coffee Break Spanish - How to talk confidently about the weather | A Coffee Break with Anabel

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