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

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Yo, soy an abel. My name is an abel 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 coffee 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 It is the weather You Say que puede ser un poco complicado en español This is so because in Spanish we use different verbs to english when we talk about the weather but not always So that's why I thought it would be nice to revise some common structures today Perfecto pues here are a few basic expressions or structures that will help you remember Which verb we have to use in Spanish when talking about the weather And we are going to start with hacer Because hacer as you may know, it's commonly used when talking about the weather but not always that's when the tricky part comes However, here is my tip for you If we are talking about temperature, then we are going to be using hacer and temperature is Saying the degrees saying if it's cold or if it's hot that is temperature and in these cases we use For example Hoy hace calor porque hace 36 grados 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 to be but in Spanish we use hacer hace calor hace 36 grados Perfecto Now there is one that it could look like an exception, but it is not It is it's windy to say it's windy in Spanish. We use hacer It's windy is hace viento. However, I don't think this is an exception I love hiking and being outside and every time that I am 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 hacer in Spanish. So hacer for temperature 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 esta nublado nublado If it's clear again talking about the sky appearance, then we are going to say está despejado And if we can see the sun we can say está soleado Here I have a note that is that it sunny is está soleado But the preferred option in Spain is hace sol. 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 llover to rain nevar to snow and granizar to hail And remember that these are verbs so we are going to conjugate them when we use them in a sentence. For example está lloviendo y mañana va a nevar está lloviendo it is raining y mañana and tomorrow va a nevar. It's going to snow Fantástico, espero que me esté siguiendo. I hope you're following because we are just going to see the last structure which is hace plus tiempo So hace plus tiempo and that tiempo has weather not time but 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 que tiempo hace hoy So here we have tiempo and then we are going to use hace the verb hacer que tiempo hace hoy How is the weather today? Or for example hace muy buen tiempo It's very good weather vaya menudo episodio pero creo que hemos cubierto la mayor parte de los temas 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 hacer when we talk about the temperature 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 hace When we are talking about the weather in the sense of tiempo if it's good or bad weather Or asking how is the weather? So for those cases we use hacer 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 que tiempo hace hoy allí? How is the weather today there? Genial que buen trabajo Here the truth is that it's a little cloudy Pero a mi me gusta porque no hace mucho frío Here it's a little bit cloudy, but I like it because it's not too cold Pues eso creo que es todo por ahora Don't forget to subscribe wherever 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 Just go to coffee break languages.com slash Spanish Ahora sí eso es todo por ahora. I hope you have enjoyed today's episode Mucho ánimo como siempre y hasta la próxima. 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