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Please, don’t lose your train of thought!

Posted on 17. Jun, 2013 by in Spanish Culture, Spanish Vocabulary

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Hello, there! How was your weekend?

We kick off this week with a question: have you ever lost your train of thought? I’m pretty sure you did, as we all have!

In Spanish we have a similar expression: írsele a alguien el santo al cielo. Check out the following dialogue:

In Spanish

- María, ¿dónde estás?
– Aquí en la cocina.
– Hay tanto silencio que ni parece que estás en casa.
– Estoy comiendo. ¿No querrás que coma y haga uido al mismo tiempo?
– No, eso no, pero la verdad es que tienes la manía de comer a escondidas…
– ¿Y qué? Cada uno come como le gusta.
– Ya veo que estás malhumorada hoy.
– Puede que sí. Ahora, dime: ¿para qué me buscabas?
– ¿Para qué te buscaba? Pues algo te iba a decir, pero no me acuerdo. Se me fue el santo al cielo.
– Y por lo visto pronto no volverá…

In English

- María, where are you?
– Here in the kitchen.
– It’s so silent that it doesn’t sound like you’re home.
– I’m eating. You don’t want me to eat and make noises at the same time, right?
– Not at all, but actually you usually eat in secret…
– So what? Each one eats as they please.
– I see you’re in a bad mood.
– Maybe. Now tell me: why were you looking for me?
– Why was I looking for you? Well, I was going to tell you something, but I don’t remember. I’ve lost my train of thought.
– And you’re not likely to find it very soon…

Now a little grammar tip for you. The verb form is impersonal, írsele a alguien el santo al ciento, so it will be conjugated as follows:

Present

Se me va el santo al cielo
Se te va el santo al cielo
Se le va el santo al cielo
Se nos va el santo al cielo
Se os va el santo al cielo
Se les va el santo al cielo

Past

Se me fue el santo al cielo
Se te fue el santo al cielo
Se le fue el santo al cielo
Se nos fue el santo al cielo
Se os fue el santo al cielo
Se les fue el santo al cielo

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Are you in love?

Posted on 12. Jun, 2013 by in Spanish Culture, Videos

Today is Valentine’s Day in Brazil (I’m Brazilian, remember?) so I chose a very cute love song originally sung by Donato and Estéfano, Estoy Enamorado, to share it with you guys.

The version I chose is by Thalía and Pedro Capó, so enjoy and sing it to your loved one!

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Estoy Enamorado [I'm in love]

Quiero beber los besos de tu boca [I want to drink the kisses from your mouth]
Como si fueran gotas de rocío [As if they were dew drops]
Y allí en el aire dibujar tu nombre [And draw your name up in the air]
Junto con el mío [Together with mine]

Y en un acorde dulce de guitarra [And in a sweet guitar chord]
Pasear locuras en tus sentimientos [Ride crazily in your feelings]
Y en el sutil abrazo de una noche [And in the subtle embrace of a night]
Sepas lo que siento [You'll know what I feel]

Que estoy enamorado [That I'm in love]
Y tu amor me hace grande [And your love makes me big]
Que estoy enamorado [That I'm in love]
¡Y qué bien, [And how well]
Y qué bien me hace amarte! [And how well it makes me to love you]

Dentro de ti quedarme en cautiverio [Become a prisoner inside you]
Para sumarme al aire que respiras [To blend with the air that you breathe]
Y en cada espacio unir mis ilusiones [And in each space join my dreams]
Junto con tu vida [Along with your life]

Que si naufrago me quedo en tu orilla [If I ever shipwreck may it be on your shore]
De recuerdos sólo me alimente [May I feed only off your memories]
Que despierte del sueño profundo [May I awake from a deep sleep]
Sólo para verte [Only to see you]

Que estoy enamorado [That I'm in love]
Y tu amor me hace grande [And your love makes me big]
Que estoy enamorado [That I'm in love]
¡Y qué bien, [And how well]
Y qué bien me hace amarte! [And how well it makes me to love you]

Voy a encender el fuego de tu piel callada [I'm going to light the fire of your silent skin]
Mojaré tus labios de agua apasionada [I will wet your lips with passion water]
Para que tejamos sueños de la nada… [So that we weave dreams out of nothing]

Que estoy enamorado [That I'm in love]
Y tu amor me hace grande [And your love makes me big]
Que estoy enamorado [That I'm in love]
¡Y qué bien, [And how well]
Y qué bien me hace amarte! [And how well it makes me to love you]

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Beginner Spanish Review Lesson 28 Talking about the weather and the seasons in Spanish

Posted on 21. May, 2013 by in Holidays, Learning, Pronunciation, Spanish Culture, Spanish Grammar, Spanish Vocabulary, Travel, Videos

Hola ¿Qué tal?

Today we are going to practice how to describe the seasons and different types of weather conditions in Spanish with lots of useful Spanish weather vocabulary and phrases.

Answers to all tasks involved in this lesson will be given at the end of the post and you can also follow a link with this post to watch the original theory video lesson on the same topic.

To go back and watch the original video lesson please follow this link:

Talking about the weather and the seasons in Spanish

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1. First, let´s see if you know the seasons in Spanish:

How do we say “spring”?
How do we say “summer”?
How do we say “autumm”?
How do we say “winter”?

2. Now from Spanish to English:

What is “verano”?
What is “invierno”?
What is “primavera”?
What is “otoño”?

3. Let´s see if you understand these sentences in Spanish about the weather in different cities of Spain:

En Madrid hace mucho frío en invierno y hace mucho calor en verano.
En Alicante hace viento en este momento.
En Bilbao llueve mucho en otoño y en invierno.
En Barcelona hace buen tiempo.

4. Now I would like you to translate these sentences from English to Spanish:

In London the weather is bad in the winter.
In Paris it´s chilly today.
In New York it snows in the winter.
Here it rains in autumm

5. Now we will see if you remember these Spanish phrases related to the weather:

¡Qué frío hace!
Hace muchísimo calor
¿Tienes calor?
¿Qué tiempo hace allí?
Hace un día bastante bueno
No hace nada de frío

6. Finally, try to say the following things in Spanish:

It’s a horrible day
It´s always very hot here at this time of the year
I am so cold!
It is a very bad day
We are at five degrees below zero

This is all for today.

Talking about the weather is very handy when you are trying to make conversation. Everybody talks about the weather in every country so I recommend you practice this lesson a few times and use these sentences whenever you meet a Spanish speaker. It is a good way to start a conversation.

See you soon with more Spanish practice

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¡Adiós!

Answers:

1.
Primavera
Verano
Otoño
Invierno

2.
Summer
Winter
Spring
Autumm

3.
In Madrid it´s very cold in the winter and it´s very hot in the summer.
In Alicante it´s windy at the moment.
In Bilbao it rains a lot in autumn and winter.
In Barcelona the weather is good.

4.
En Londres hace mal tiempo en invierno.
En París hace fresco hoy.
En Nueva York nieva en invierno.
Aquí llueve en otoño.

5.
It´s really cold
It´s very very hot
Are you hot?
How is the weather like there?
It is quite a good day
It is not cold at all

6.
Hace un día horrible.
Aquí siempre hace mucho calor en esta época.
¡Qué frío tengo!
Hace un día muy malo.
Estamos a cinco grados bajo cero.