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Lesson 9.2.1 · El clima

🌦️ Weather & Climate

Colombia has every climate — costa caliente, Bogotá fría, Manizales con niebla. Here's how to talk about it.

Sub-lessons

Break this lesson into focused chunks. Each sub-lesson has its own Memory Lab — active recall, mnemonics, elaboration, interleaved review, and shadowing — scoped to just those words.

01

Conditions

Note: for weather use 'hace calor / frío' (it's hot/cold), not 'es'. 'Caliente' is for objects and drinks.

el clima[el KLEE-mah]

the weather

el sol[el sohl]

the sun

la lluvia[lah YOO-byah]

the rain

está lloviendo[es-TAH yo-BYEN-doh]

it is raining

la nieve[lah NYEH-beh]

the snow

la niebla[lah NYEH-blah]

the fog

el viento[el BYEN-toh]

the wind

la tormenta[lah tor-MEN-tah]

the storm

Example sentences

  • Necesito el clima, por favor.

    I need the weather, please.

  • ¿Dónde está el sol?

    Where is the sun?

  • Me gusta la lluvia.

    I like the rain.

Mini-diálogo

A

¿Dónde está el clima?

Where is the weather?

B

Me gusta el sol.

I like the sun.

02

Hot, cold, just right

Cool, warm, hot, cold — describing temperature.

caliente[kah-LYEN-teh]

hot

tibio[TEE-byo]

warm

fresco[FRES-koh]

cool

frío[FREE-oh]

cold

Example sentences

  • Hoy estoy caliente.

    Today I feel hot.

  • Mi amigo es muy tibio.

    My friend is very warm.

  • La comida está fresco.

    The food is cool.

Mini-diálogo

A

Mi amigo es muy caliente.

My friend is very hot.

B

La comida está tibio.

The food is warm.

MEM

Memory lab

Five research-backed techniques — active recall, mnemonics, elaboration, interleaving, and production — applied to this lesson's vocabulary. Your progress trains a spaced-repetition schedule under the hood.

Force the answer from memory before peeking. The struggle is the workout — that's the testing effect.

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Recall from English

the wind

EX

Practice exercises

Test what stuck. Multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank — pulled live from this lesson's vocabulary.

01
How do you say this?

warm

02
How do you say this?

it is raining

03
How do you say this?

cold

04
What does this mean?

la nieve

05
How do you say this?

the sun

06
What does this mean?

la lluvia

07

Fill the blank

Necesito el _____, por favor.

I need the weather, please.

08

Fill the blank

¿Dónde está el _____?

Where is the sun?

Score: 0 / 8

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