#19 - ¡Caliente! The REAL meaning 🔥🥵

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In this episode, we break down the hot word “caliente”—when to use it, when not to, and why saying “estoy caliente” might get you the wrong kind of attention 🔞

You’ll learn how to talk about heat (and hot people) the right way en español.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
When Reese Witherspoon was promoting her movie Hot Pursuit, she
dropped a few words in Spanish during an interview. Those caliente,
those moujarees calientes. Are you sure about that? Rice? Let's
find out what calenthe really means in this episode? Are

(00:22):
you ready for a quickie? Sure? Caliente is a Spanish
adjective that means hot. It's mainly used for things, and
that's the key aspect things, not people. For example, if
your coffee is too hot, you say el cafe is

(00:44):
the galiente? Or if you're running a bath and the
water is burning, you say, e lawa, is that calienthe?
That kind of hurt. Totally fine, But when you use
calienthe to describe a person, it has a different meaning.

(01:04):
The temperature in your body goes up, but for a
different reason because galliente, if you use it with people,
that means horny. So when rich said those galiente, she
may have meant two hot women, but what she actually
said was two horny women. That's a different kind of movie.

(01:33):
So to fix that mistake, you could say those headed
sexies or attractivas, but not caliente. And if you feel
physically hot because of summer heat. Don't say a story galliante.
You could say thang calore, literally I have hit. That's

(01:54):
how we express this idea of I feel hot, tango calo,
not a stoy caliente. Let's recap. Caliente is hot for temperature,
normally for things. If you want to refer to people
as hot, say attractivo or sexy, but not caliente. That

(02:17):
means horny. And if you're feeling hot, say then go calore,
not a stoy caliente. And that's all for today. Grassias
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(03:01):
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