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

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🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Would you like short, mini-episodes to keep your Spanish ticking over in between our main seasons of Coffee Break Spanish? Then we hope you enjoy this mini-lesson with Anabel!

Today’s topic? The weather! ☀️🌧️ Anabel will teach you how to talk confidently about the weather in Spanish. You’ll learn useful vocabulary like:

➡️ Hace calor / hace frío

➡️ Está lloviendo / está nevando

➡️ Hay niebla / hay tormenta

➡️ ¿Qué tiempo hace?

By the end of the episode, you’ll be ready to chat about the forecast confidently! And to keep improving your Spanish, discover more content like this and get free lessons straight in your inbox, visit coffeebreaklanguages.com/spanish/ 📩

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0:00.0	Welcome to Coffee Break Spanish.
0:03.0	I'm Annabel.
0:04.0	My name is Annabel, and I am very happy to be in this episode with you.
0:10.0	Here at Coffee Break Spanish, we are enjoying working on our next podcast series for you.
0:18.0	But in the meantime, I hope you enjoy this mini lesson.
0:23.8	If this happens to be the very first episode of Coffee Break Spanish you are listening to,
0:29.3	you should know that you can go back and learn Spanish right from the beginning
0:33.7	by ordering the podcast episodes from the oldest and starting with coffee break
0:39.2	Spanish season one.
0:41.7	As for this lesson, I would like to talk about something that in my experience is one of the biggest
0:48.7	difficulties to learner of Spanish.
0:52.2	It is the weather.
1:03.9	Thank you. of Spanish. It is the weather. And so that's what's a bit more complicated in this is so because in Spanish we use different verbs to English when we talk about the weather, but not always.
1:13.4	So that's why I thought it would be nice to revise some common structures today.
1:19.8	Perfecto, well, here are a few basic expressions or structures that will help you remember which verb we have to use in Spanish
1:30.4	when talking about the weather. And we are going to start with acer. Because afer, as you
1:37.1	may know, it's commonly used when talking about the weather, but not always that's when the
1:42.3	tricky part comes. However, here is my
1:45.3	tip for you. If we are talking about temperature, then we are going to be using a-ser. And temperature
1:53.9	is saying the degrees, saying if it's cold or if it's hot, that is temperature. And in these cases, we use to say, for example,
2:06.6	today, it's hot because it's 36 degrees.
2:13.6	Today, it's hot because it's 36 degrees. In English, we are saying it's hot, it's 36 degrees. So we are
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