Making Small Talk About the Weather - Part 1

Learn how to discuss the weather

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¡Hola! Soy Brenda Romaniello, tu profesora de español.

Hello! Welcome to today’s Spanish class! My name is Brenda Romaniello, and I’m your Spanish teacher.

Today, we’re going to talk about the weather in Spanish. How to talk about the weather in Spanish. This is such a useful lesson because now you’re going to be able to chitchat and talk about the weather with people. Don’t we all talk about the weather when there’s nothing to talk about, right? So this lesson, hopefully, will be extremely helpful and useful to you.

So we’re going to start with a dialogue, we're going to listen to a conversation. We're going to hear two neighbors who meet in the elevator and then they start talking about the weather in Spanish.

We can say,

¡Qué calor hace!

Sí. How hot! Or, maybe in English, we say, "It's so hot, right?" "It's so hot!"

¡Qué calor!

¡Qué calor hace!

And the other person says,

Sí, ¿verdad?

"Yes, right?" "That's right!" "Ugh! I know!"

So, Sí, ¿verdad?

Sí, ¿verdad?

¡Qué calor hace!

Sí, ¿verdad?

Muy bien. So let's have a look at some examples that we have here. So, we're going to look at the pattern in a minute, but we use the same pattern to talk about the weather with different weather conditions.

So we can say, ¡Qué frío hace!

Repite después de mi.

¡Qué frío hace!

repeat after me.

¡Qué frío hace!

¡Qué viento hace!

¡Qué calor hace!

Muy bien, very good. So ¡Qué frío hace! means "How cold!"

And ¡Qué viento hace! "How windy!"

Or "It's so cold today," "It's so windy."

Muy bien, vamos a ver la estudio, let's have a look at the pattern for talking about the weather in Spanish.

So we're going to have Qué, plus the weather condition, and then the verb hace.

And this means "How [weather condition]," or "What a [weather condition]." We'll talk about this in a minute.

So qué, plus the weather condition, hace. We have the verb here, hacer, muy bien, and it's hacer. And this word is a verb that literally it means, in Spanish, "to make" or "to do." But for the weather, to talk about the weather in Spanish, we use this verb and we use it in the third person singular - hace.

Hace.

And this is just an impersonal verb, how we use it here, it's just to talk about the weather, kind of like when we say "It's hot," or "It's cold." There's nothing, it, is just the weather. Ok? So it's very similar in that aspect in Spanish. When we use the verb hacer in the third person singular, hace.

¡Qué [WEATHER CONDITION] hace!

Let's take a look at some vocabulary to talk about the weather in Spanish.

So, repeat after me.

Calor

So this means "hot" when we talk about the weather, ok?

¡Qué calor hace!

"How hot it is!"

Bochorno

¡Qué bochorno hace!

And that means "How muggy!"

Yes, I'm from Argentina, yes, and in Argentina, we actually use this word to talk about the humidity or how muggy the day is, we say humedad.

¡Qué humedad!

¡Qué humedad hace!

So, bochorno, humedad.

Humedad, which would be something like ¡Qué humedad hace! "How humid it is!" right?

Frío

Repetir.

Frío

Frío "cold"

Viento

So viento significa, it means "wind," yes.

And of course, when we put it in this structure, ¡Qué viento hace!

¡Qué viento hace! significa, it means "How windy it is!" or "It's really windy."

Buen tiempo

Buen tiempo significa "nice weather."

Sí, ¡Qué buen tiempo hace!

¡Qué buen tiempo hace! "What a nice weather we have today!" or "It's a beautiful weather."

Lluvia

Lluvia means "rain" and lluvia would be the exception for all these weather conditions because we're not going to use lluvia with this pattern, with this word hace. We're going to say ¡Qué lluvia!

It doesn't require hace when we want to describe the weather condition that it's rainy or how heavy it's raining. If we want to comment on how heavily it's raining, then we can say ¡Qué lluvia!

So you can completely delete hace from this expression, from this sentence, from this exclamation to talk about the weather, and say ¡Qué lluvia!

Repite, repeat after me.

¡Qué lluvia!

And that means "What a downpour!" or "it's raining heavily." Yes.

¡Qué lluvia!

So that's when we talk about the structure, we're saying "How [WEATHER CONDITION]!"

And it can also mean "What a downpour!" in the case of lluvia.

So, ¡Qué [WEATHER CONDITION] hace!

So that is how to talk about the weather in Spanish. Now it's time to practice what we have learned.

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