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This episode is all about how we use technology in Catalan. It's an introduction to talking about using different devices like phones, computers, laptops, tablets and more... along with lots of other language to describe what you do on these devices/the online word.

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Hola! We're here with episode 20 and it's another review episode of the last 4 lessons - you'll hear a lot of sentences in the Imperfect tense, and specifically relating to things you used to do in the past, old routines at school, what you carried in your bag/pencil case and much more.

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In this episode, we dive deeper into the imperfect tense by talking about what our school routines used to be like. You'll review common daily routine verbs, learn time expressions, and build longer sentences in context. Through storytelling, guided practice, and a short dialogue, you’ll get comfortable using the imperfect tense to describe past habits. Great for intermediate learners looking to make their Catalan more natural and fluid!

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In this episode, we’re talking about school and office items and stationary in Catalan! Things like pens, notebooks, backpacks and more. You’ll also get some grammar practice with hi ha, prepositions, and the imperfect tense to describe how things used to be.

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In this episode we dive deeper into the imperfect tense!

Make sure you listen to the last episode where we talked about the imperfect and the singular forms of common verbs before you listen to this one.

In this one we look at the plural conjugations as well as some of the strange irregularities that happen to the root of a lot of verbs in this tense in Catalan!

We hope it wasn't too confusing for you! The lesson notes/language summaries on Patreon might help you consolidate everything you learned further and will act as useful resources to refer back to.

Any feedback is welcome as always :)

Fins aviat! 

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Join us for this episode as we dive a little deeper into the Imperfect Tense in Catalan. We use this tense to talk about recurring actions in the past or to describe things in the past.

Tune in to find out more and specifically how to talk about what our school days were like!

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Join Alex on a translation challenge!

We review the last 4 lessons on the perfect tense, superlatives and talking about mental health/hobbies. 

There are 10 sentences to translate from Catalan into English, and 10 from English into Catalan - they weren't easy so well done if you got some! Let us know your score!

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Hola! This episode is all about using the superlative in Catalan.

You'll learn how to say the most or the least of things, for example the most interesting, the least funny, the most fun etc... also the words for tallest/shorterst/fastest/slowest etc, which use the same structure.

The words for the best and the worst are a bit different though so we practice them as well!

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Hola! Com va? This is part 2 on the perfect tense! Last lesson we learned the basic use and formation of the singular pronouns, this episode will focus on a lot of the irregularities with the past participles as well as teach you how to use the rest of the pronouns so that you can talk about what a variety of people have done in the past!

We hope you enjoyed it and found it useful. If you do enjoy the Pod please don't forget to give a little rating or review as it really means a lot!

If you want more practice you can see a lot of these verbs in a dialogue that we unpick in the bonus episode on Patreon! The lesson notes and language summary will as always be available there too.

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Welcome back! Thanks for stopping by.

This episode goes into detail on how and when we use the perfect tense - another common past tense! We learned the perifràstic tense in season 1, but this season we want to be able to use multiple tenses and use them in the right way, as this is often something that learners find tricky!

Hope you find it useful! 

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