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.
Conditions
Note: for weather use 'hace calor / frío' (it's hot/cold), not 'es'. 'Caliente' is for objects and drinks.
the weather
the sun
the rain
it is raining
the snow
the fog
the wind
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
¿Dónde está el clima?
Where is the weather?
Me gusta el sol.
I like the sun.
Hot, cold, just right
Cool, warm, hot, cold — describing temperature.
hot
warm
cool
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
Mi amigo es muy caliente.
My friend is very hot.
La comida está tibio.
The food is warm.
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.
Recall from English
the wind
Practice exercises
Test what stuck. Multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank — pulled live from this lesson's vocabulary.
warm
it is raining
cold
la nieve
the sun
la lluvia
Fill the blank
Necesito el _____, por favor.
I need the weather, please.
Fill the blank
¿Dónde está el _____?
Where is the sun?
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