Send us a textIn 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! Support the showGroup Lessons starting 7th April 2025: Group ProgrammesBeginners Course: Catalan for Beginners CoursePatreon: The Lazy Linguist Buy us a coffee: Buy me a Coffee Instagram: @lazylinguistcatalan Facebook: The Lazy Linguist PodcastChristina offers private lessons - enquire through a DM on socials or through the link: Private lessons
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S2: E16 - The Imperfect Tense - Com era la teva escola? - Intermediate Catalan
Send us a textJoin 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!Let us know how you found the episode/how you are finding the Pod in general or anything else. We love getting to know our listeners!Support the showGroup Lessons starting 7th April 2025: Group ProgrammesBeginners Course: Catalan for Beginners CoursePatreon: The Lazy Linguist Buy us a coffee: Buy me a Coffee Instagram: @lazylinguistcatalan Facebook: The Lazy Linguist PodcastChristina offers private lessons - enquire through a DM on socials or through the link: Private lessons
Send us a textJoin 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!Support the showGroup Lessons starting 7th April 2025: Group ProgrammesBeginners Course: Catalan for Beginners CoursePatreon: The Lazy Linguist Buy us a coffee: Buy me a Coffee Instagram: @lazylinguistcatalan Facebook: The Lazy Linguist PodcastChristina offers private lessons - enquire through a DM on socials or through the link: Private lessons
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S2. E14 - The Superlative - The Best & Worst hobbies! - Intermediate Catalan
Send us a textHola! 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!If you enjoy the Podcast and haven't already, we'd really appreciate a quick rating or review - and make sure to subscribe so you don't miss an episode!Fins la propera :)Support the showGroup Lessons starting 7th April 2025: Group ProgrammesBeginners Course: Catalan for Beginners CoursePatreon: The Lazy Linguist Buy us a coffee: Buy me a Coffee Instagram: @lazylinguistcatalan Facebook: The Lazy Linguist PodcastChristina offers private lessons - enquire through a DM on socials or through the link: Private lessons
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S2. E13. El Perfet - Irregular Verbs & More Practice - Intermediate Catalan
Send us a textHola! 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.Don't forget to check us out on social media as well - we are trying to bit a little more active on Instagram! @lazylinguistcatalanSupport the showGroup Lessons starting 7th April 2025: Group ProgrammesBeginners Course: Catalan for Beginners CoursePatreon: The Lazy Linguist Buy us a coffee: Buy me a Coffee Instagram: @lazylinguistcatalan Facebook: The Lazy Linguist PodcastChristina offers private lessons - enquire through a DM on socials or through the link: Private lessons
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Hola! We are Alex and Christina, a couple from the UK. Christina is a languages teacher originally from Catalonia and is teaching Alex Catalan right from the basics up to intermediate and hopefully advanced level! We are documenting the journey through these podcasts, so if you are also learning Catalan this will help you learn along with us... .Please get in touch and let us know if you are also learning Catalan! Instagram - @lazylinguistcatalan ... Facebook page - The Lazy Linguist Podcast... We also have a Patreon where you can access bonus content, detailed lesson notes and transcripts to consolidate your understanding and help you make faster progress with your Catalan. You can find it at www.patreon.com/thelazylinguist...In future there is potential to make episodes for Spanish and French learners too, so please let us know if you would be interested in that!
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