When to use the imperfect tense - Speaki...

In this Coffee Break German mini-episode, Thomas shares a quick and friendly guide to expressing gratitude in German. ☕?We’ll explore the usual Danke, along with many other options depending on the situation and if you are talking to a police officer, an old friend or your collea ... Show More

In this mini-episode, Thomas helps you unlock the mystery of the Nullartikel, when German nouns don’t need an article! ☕?We’ll look at examples from meals, professions, languages, and abstract ideas, and show how dropping the article can make your German sound more natural. With ... Show More

Autumn is here, and in this lesson, Thomas takes you through the cosy world of German autumn words and expressions! ?☕We’ll explore terms for leaves, harvest, and seasonal fun, plus idiomatic expressions you might not find in a dictionary. From talking about falling leaves to phr ... Show More

Following on from the previous lesson of Coffee Break German Season 3, Mark and Andrea continue to look at the imperfect tense, this time, focusing on irregular verbs. The imperfect tense is used when writing or telling a story in the past so we take a look at a letter where we s ... Show More

If you've listened to previous episodes you may have heard me mention that there are really 4 core tenses that the majority of people need in a business context; the present, the future, the past and the present perfect. If you have a good command of these ones, that will serve y ... Show More

In this episode, we hear from Kate in the USA. She talks to us about the Founding Fathers of the United States, and we focus on the past perfect and past simple tenses. Would you like to receive free lesson notes to accompany this lesson? If so then click here to go to our websit ... Show More

In this episode of Coffee Break German we're focusing on the use of the future tense. We learn how to express plans, promises and assumptions in the future. That's not all, we also introduce adverbs which can be used to suggest that we are making an assumption. We then hear what ... Show More

Wondering when to use the imparfait vs. the passé composé in French, or how to combine both? Join us in this episode of the Coffee Break French Show to discover more about the past tense in French!Prefer to watch these lessons? You can do exactly that for free on Coffee Break TV, ... Show More

Lesson 4 of Coffee Break German Season 3 is all about the imperfect tense. Mark and Andrea focus on the conjugation of regular verbs and then listen to a diary entry where we hear examples of the tense in context. If you'd like to take advantage of bonus materials, lesson notes a ... Show More

In this episode of Everyday English with E2, Louisa will teach you two ways to use the past continuous verb tense - one for how to tell stories about the past and one for how to answer the question: What were you doing? This is an important podcast that explains a challenging ver ... Show More

Today we will learn a few additional shortcuts to talk about the past in Spanish by using verbs in present tense and words that talk about time.