How to Talk About Time, Price and Weather in Spanish the Way Mexicans Actually Do - EP424

"Son las cinco" vs. "es las cinco." "Hace un calorón." "¿A cómo me dejas?" These are the expressions you won't find in a textbook but will hear every single day in Mexico. In this episode, David and Ana walk you through how native Mexican Spanish speakers really talk about time, price, and temperature — with all the nuances, slang, and cultural context included. Join 🌮La Taquería 🌮 https://community.howtospanishpodcast... the community we built for Spanish learners. Practice speaking almost every day of the week, meet like-minded people and make Spanish truly part of your life! + the transcript and vocab guide for each episode are there too! 😎 We have an app (personalized Spanish plans + access to all our courses) https://studio.com/howtospanishpodcast 🇲🇽🇺🇸 Raising Bilingual kids? https://www.theraisingbilinguals.com 🔸ABOUT US🔸 Our purpose is to SERVE others by teaching them REAL-LIFE and clean SPANISH that they can actually use. As Christians, we try to honor God in everything we do and say and in the way we treat others. Welcome to our community! #learnspanish #spanishpodcast #spanishcoach #spanishcoachapp #mexicanSpanish 00:00 – Intro: community migration update 01:33 – "Como a las cuatro y media" — what that "como" does 02:21 – Es la una vs. son las dos — the one exception in Spanish time 03:14 – ¿Qué hora es? vs. ¿A qué hora es? — two very different questions 04:19 – Cuarto para las, y media, y cuarto — Mexican ways to say the time 05:25 – The cultural rule: you can only count backwards from the half hour 06:29 – 24-hour time in writing vs. how nobody actually says it 07:49 – Mañana, tarde, noche — and what time each one starts in Mexico 08:49 – La madrugada — the hours that don't exist in English 09:38 – Madrugar as a verb: how to say you woke up before everyone 09:58 – ¿Cuánto cuesta? vs. ¿Cuánto vale? — when to use each 10:34 – ¿A cómo? / ¿A cuánto? — market Spanish 10:45 – ¿A cómo da? and ¿A cómo me dejas? — asking for a discount 11:43 – De cinco, de diez, de quince — ordering by price 12:16 – ¿Para qué me alcanza? — a very Mexican way to say "what can I get?" 12:31 – Estar a / estar en — for things that change price 13:26 – ¿En cuánto sale? / ¿En cuánto te salió? — asking the final price 15:15 – Advice: you don't have to memorize all of this at once 16:28 – Hace calor / hace frío — and the augmentatives calorón and friazo 17:11 – Nublado, despejado, soleado — weather vocabulary 17:50 – Parece que va a llover — and the Mexican song it comes with 😂 18:26 – Estamos a X grados — never "es X grados" 20:11 – Vamos a llegar a / llegar hasta — talking about temperature highs and lows 21:00 – Challenge: leave a comment with the time, weather, and exchange rate in your city