The VERBcast

VERBcast - Episode 01

Here's the first episode! Follow the links below to access the mp3 files. They can be downloaded and copied to your mp3 player, burned to CD, or listened to on your computer, but we would suggest that for best results you listen to each episode on headphones.

On today's show
This programme introduces you to the relaxation techniques you're going to be using in the series, and explains what verbs are. Regular -er verbs in the present tense are covered, using parler as an example.

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VERBcast - Episode 02

3000 verbs yesterday - no bother! Today we'll add another thousand or so verbs to the list by covering regular -ir and -re verbs, using finir and vendre as the examples. Follow the links below to access the mp3 files. They can be downloaded and copied to your mp3 player, burned to CD, or listened to on your computer, but we would suggest that for best results you listen to each episode on headphones.

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VERBcast - Episode 03

Follow the links below to access the mp3 files. They can be downloaded and copied to your mp3 player, burned to CD, or listened to on your computer, but we would suggest that for best results you listen to each episode on headphones.

On today's show
This episode of the VERBcast introduces the concept of irregular verbs, and you'll come across four verbs which are among the most commonly used verbs in the French language: avoir, être, faire and aller. You need to know these verbs, so let the VERBcast teach you them!

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VERBcast - Episode 04

More irregular verbs today. Hopefully you're finding the VERBcast very useful. We're certainly delighted with the response both in the comments and in emails.

On today's show
In today's show you'll learn three more irregular verbs in the present tense, all of which are formed in a very similar way. The verbs are pouvoir, savoir and vouloir. Like all the irregular verbs covered in the VERBcast they're important verbs and you really need to know them.

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VERBcast - Episode 05

More irregular verbs today. Hopefully you're finding the VERBcast very useful. We're certainly delighted with the response both in the comments and in emails.

On today's show
In today's show you'll learn three more irregular verbs in the present tense, all of which are formed in a very similar way. The verbs are pouvoir, savoir and vouloir. Like all the irregular verbs covered in the VERBcast they're important verbs and you really need to know them.

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VERBcast - Episode 06

On today's show
We've already covered savoir, one of the verbs meaning "to know", and today we'll learn how to conjugate the other one, connaître. Also in today's programe are mettre and croire, together making three more common irregular verbs. You'll be pleased to know that tomorrow's verbs will be the last of our 20 irregular verbs before we move onto different tenses!

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VERBcast - Episode 07

Our final set of irregular verbs in the present tense will be covered today.

On today's show
Today we'll cover sortir, partir and venir, but in addition to venir you will also get revenir and devenir for free!

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VERBcast - Episode 08

Our first seven episodes have concentrated on getting you used to a new way of learning, and have covered all 20 of our key verbs. We've had a couple of extra verbs thrown in too which conjugate in the same way as some of the key verbs.

On today's show
Today you'll learn how to form the perfect tense and, in particular, how to form the past participles of regular verbs and a handful of irregulars which we've covered in the past few days in the present tense.

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VERBcast - Episode 09

Episode 9 of the VERBcast includes further irregular verbs in the perfect tense.

On today's show
Today you'll learn how to conjugate mettre, dormir, écrire, dire, avoir and être in the perfect tense. All of these are "avoir" verbs - yes, even être!!!

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VERBcast - Episode 10

This is it: once you've listened to today's episode you're now half way through the programme! And well done for keeping with it until now.

On today's show
In episode 10 you'll cover the remaining verbs in the perfect tense, concentrating on the verbs which form the perfect tense using être.

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VERBcast - Episode 11

Today's VERBcast is an important one. It's time to introduce a new tense, and we're covering quite important concepts today which you really need to understand. Hope you find the podcast useful.

On today's show
In episode 11 we're introducing the Imperfect tense, and the ideas behind it. We'll talk you through how it's used, and in particular the difference between the perfect and imperfect tenses. We'll give examples using a regular -er verb in the imperfect: parler

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VERBcast - Episode 12

We introduced the Imperfect tense yesterday - and I'm sure for most of you this constitutes revision. Today we'll talk a bit more about this tense, introducing more verb conjugations.

On today's show
In episode 12 we'll get into the Imperfect Tense a bit more, discussing further uses of this tense, and going over the -ir and -re verbs in the imperfect.

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VERBcast - Episode 13

It's edition 13 of the VERBcast which may be unlucky for some, but there's good news today: with the imperfect tense there only is one irregular verb!

On today's show
Today's VERBcast looks at our list of irregular verbs, all but one of which conjugate regularly in the imperfect! The one irregular verb is être and you'll be conjugating this in no time!

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VERBcast - Episode 14

The VERBcast will continue, even if you've not got a huge amount of time to work through things at the moment because of the exams. And it's something a bit different today: an interactive quiz to test your knowledge of the imperfects you've done so far.

On today's show
Test your knowledge of the imperfect tense with this interactive audio quiz. You'll have to give the imperfect tense for a number of verbs, and we'll talk you through how to form each verb you're tested on.

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VERBcast - Episode 15

Three quarters of the way through the VERBcast - well done for sticking with it so long!

On today's show
Today's show is the first of two revision programmes which will test you on everything you've learned so far. Try to answer aloud when you're asked questions, or at least think of the answer in your head.

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VERBcast - Episode 16

We're into the last five programmes of the VERBcast. Today is another revision day and tomorrow we'll be getting on to something a bit different.

On today's show
This is the second part of the revision session, covering everything that you've learned so far. Today and yesterday's shows are really important because they'll help to consolidate what you've covered and check that you've not been getting mixed up as we do different tenses.

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VERBcast - Episode 17

It's time to move on, into the final section of the VERBcast. Today we begin looking at the future tense.

On today's show
We'll introduce the future tense and look at how it's formed and how it's used. On today's show we'll concentrate on the formation of the future with regular verbs.

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VERBcast - Episode 18

On today's show
Today we'll continue to look at the future tense, concentrating on some of our list of irregular verbs which are in fact completely regular in the future. We'll also look at être, avoir and aller which have irregular future stems.

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VERBcast - Episode 19

Today is the penultimate VERBcast - not long to go!

On today's show
We'll cover the remaining verbs in the future, looking at pouvoir, vouloir, savoir and venir, all of which have irregular future stems.

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VERBcast - Episode 20

You've made it! Today is the final episode and you should be very proud of yourself if you've stuck with the VERBcast throughout the past 20 programmes. It's really useful to us if you can give your feedback in the comments section on the blog. Also, if you're one of our listeners tuning in from further afield then we'd be keen to have your feedback too.

On today's show
Today's show is a revision show, looking at everything we've covered in the past 20 episodes. You'll be tested interactively on regular and irregular verbs in the present, perfect, imperfect and future tenses. Good luck!

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