German GrammarPod

German GrammarPod episodes:

• 08.19.2012

  Adjectival nouns

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• 10.24.2011

  Reported Speech and Konjunktiv I

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• 07.17.2011

  Commands

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• 05.08.2011

  Reciprocal Verbs and Einander

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• 04.01.2011

  Reflexive Verbs

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• 03.27.2011

  Reflexive Pronouns

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• 11.14.2010

  Adjectives and Adjectival Endings

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• 07.24.2010

  How to Use a Dictionary

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• 04.05.2010

  General Tips & Tricks

  This podcast gives you a wide range of tips and tricks for learning a language. It focuses on German, but these tips and tricks could be applied to learning any language. To listen to this podcast on your computer, click...

  
• 01.09.2010

  Relative Pronouns3

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• 08.22.2009

  Relative Pronouns 2

  This podcast covers relative pronouns after prepositions and some other special cases. To listen to this podcast directly on your computer, click here.

  
• 05.31.2009

  Relative Pronouns

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• 04.19.2009

  The Conditional - Part 2

  This episode is about more of the really practical stuff you need to know about the conditional. To listen to the episode directly on your computer, click here.

  
• 02.01.2009

  The Conditional and Umlauts

  The conditional basically means sentences with a would. For instance, if I were rich, I would buy a house. To download this podcast directly on your computer, click here.

  
• 11.30.2008

  Word Order - Multi-Clause Sentences

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• 07.13.2008

  Word Order - Exceptions to the Standard Main Clause

  Word order has a highly complex set of rules in any language. So many, that I'm not convinced anyone has ever managed to write them all down for any given language. For pretty well every rule there is an exception,...

  
• 04.06.2008

  Word Order in a Standard Main Clause

  German word order in a completely standard, neutral main clause is a follows: * nominative subject, * conjugated verb, * accusative then dative pronoun, * nouns with definite determiners, in the order dative, accusative * most adverbials * nicht –...

  
• 01.27.2008

  The Pluperfect

  The pluperfect is the ich hatte es getan or I had done tense. You make the pluperfect in German by taking the perfect tense (the ich habe es getan tense) and changing the auxiliary verb (the habe or the bin...

  
• 12.31.2007

  The Simple Past

  The simple past - also known as the preterite or the imperfect tense - is equivalent in form to the English I did form (ich tat es). The way that regular verbs form their simple past is by a or...

  
• 11.24.2007

  When to Use the Perfect Tense

  This podcast is about when to use the perfect tense. The perfect tense is the ich habe es getan tense and corresponds in form to the I have done it tense in English. But the rules on when you use...

  
• 10.22.2007

  Past Tenses: How to Use The Perfect

  The perfect tense is one of three German past tense forms. It's also the one that's most commonly used in spoken German, so very useful to learn. The perfect tense is a compound tense. This means it uses two verbs:...

  
• 09.30.2007

  The future tense & the verb werden

  Hallo all, It's been longer than I intended yet again, but I've finally managed to finish another episode of German GrammarPod. This episode is about the future tense and also about the verb werden in general. The future tense is...

  
• 08.12.2007

  The present tense

  The present tense is pretty simple in German: there's only one. So where English has to choose between Sarah is walking to work and Sarah walks to work, German has only Sarah geht zu Fuß zur Arbeit. However, whereas English...

  
• 06.30.2007

  Cases: The Genitive Case

  The genitive case is used to indicate possession, like of or apostrophe-s ('s) does in English. However, apart from in formal, written texts (and in its version of adding 's, which is just to add an s to the end...

  
• 05.06.2007

  The Dative Case

  The dative case is used for the indirect object (that's the noun or pronoun which is impacted indirectly by the action, as opposed to the one to which the action is done directly). The classic example is he gives me...

  
• 03.18.2007

  The Accusative Case

  The accusative case is used for the direct object (that's the noun or pronoun to which an action is done). It's like the shark in Peter ate the shark where shark is the noun that gets eaten. It also follows...

  
• 02.25.2007

  Cases: The Nominative Case

  This podcast is about cases, which are a way of showing what role the different words are playing in a sentence. German has four cases: Nominative Accusative Dative Gentitive This podcast describes how cases work in general, then goes on...

  
• 01.11.2007

  The Gender Podcast

  I finally have my first podcast up and running. You wouldn't believe how complicated publishing podcasts is, and I thought the long bit was going to be writing the podcast :) Anyway, I'm all up and running now, so welcome...