🌦️ How do you talk about the weather in Spanish?
In this episode of Speaking Spanish for Beginners, you’ll learn essential Spanish phrases to describe the weather—hot, cold, sunny, or cloudy.
We’ll practice with real examples and show you how to ask ¿Cómo está el tiempo? and answer like a native.
Perfect for small talk and everyday conversations en español.
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Episode Transcript
Is it hot or cold? And more importantly, how do
you say that? In espanel? Let's find out in this
episode of Speaking Spanish for beginners. Gital meyam Marco, you're
Latino Spanish teacher. In this episode you'll learn some basic
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words to describe the weather, a classic topic for small
talk in espanel. Are you ready for this, mamma el TmPo.
That's how we say the weather in Spanish. To start,
let's listen to a short dialogue between my friendly Titia
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and me. She is in Minnesota and I'm in Costa Rica.
Pay close attention to the words we used to describe
the weather in each place. Here we go, all Alicia.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Ola, Marco pain Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Minnesota, Henielle just doing Costa Rica de vacaciones aga acca, lore, yesta, soliado,
como style tempo Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Agaci, frio, yesta promegusta.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Okay, let's break it down. Did you catch the words
to describe the weather in Costa Rica a Minnesota. I'll
give you a few seconds to think of your answer.
Let's see about Costa Rica. I said acca, lore yesta, soliado,
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it's hot and sunny, and in Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
A caci fri yesta it's cool and.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Cloudy too fast. Let's have a look at all of
this in more detail. To get started the question to
ask about the weather. The question I used was como
esta el tempo that means what's the weather like? Repeat
after me commostal tempo perfecto. Tempo is a tricky word
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because it can also mean time, So how do we
know exactly what it means? Well the context. If you're
asking commost a tempo, your amigus will know you're asking
about the weather because that's how we phrase it in Spanish,
so no confusion there. Another option is kit tempo asset
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Repeat after me kit t tempo asset perfecto. Now, let's
have a look at how you can answer to commostal
tempo and espanel. In the dialog, we use two main structures,
one with the verb asset and one with the verb is.
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Start with a cert we con'jugate the verb as assey
in the third person singular assay, and then we ad
the noun of the weather condition. So as say calore
is hot, I say frio it's cold. Don't translate that
literally into English because that's like saying it makes heat
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or it makes cold. I know it's sons strange, but
that's how we spressed in Spanish. I say calore, I
say frio. Repeat after me I say calore, I say frio. Good.
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You can also use the verb a star to be.
A star is commonly used to describe current weather conditions,
and in this case, it's similar to the way you
phrase said in English. In the dialog, we said a
star soliado it's sunny, and a star new blado it's cloudy.
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So after you include the adjective that describes the weather
conditions like soliado and new blado, repeat after me estar
soliado esta new blado.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Good.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Okay, now that you know the vocabulary, let's listen to
the dialogue one more time. Here we go all aldia Ola.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Marco Piena Kin Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Minnesota, gnial, just doing Costa Rica de vacaciones aga aca lore,
esta soliado como style tempo Minnesota agusta better this time.
If you need extra help, the summary of this lesson
is on my blog at latinel dot com. You'll find
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explanations plus a fan quiz to practice. Chake the link
in the episode description and now it's your turn, I'll
ask you what's the weather like in your city. When
you hear this sound reply in Espaniel, ready comes that
a timpan to see that movie en And that's all
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for today, Glass says pot Scutars speaking Spanish for beginners.
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If you want to go deeper on this topic. In
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on the weather with a study guys and quizes to practice.
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