B1 (¡Ya le agarras la onda!)Used EVERYWHERE 🇲🇽Standard Spanish 😌
🧠 What it means
This is one of the great discourse markers!
Huh?
Sorry, I’ll try not to get bogged down in fancy linguistic terms …
It’s just a VERY common way of saying:
👉 apparently / it looks like
And unlike aparentemente (which also means apparently), por lo visto is a phrase you’re actually gonna hear in conversation.
Before you accuse me of making things up, data from the Corpus of Contemporary Spanish shows that por lo visto is used 90% more often in oral speech than aparentemente (trust me now?).
🌪️ When to whip it out
Whenever you want to point out something that seems true based on what you’ve heard or seen: