German GrammarPod

This blog accompanies a podcast about German grammar.

Sunday, 19 August 2012

Adjectival nouns

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Monday, 24 October 2011

Reported Speech and Konjunktiv I

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Sunday, 17 July 2011

Commands

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Sunday, 8 May 2011

Reciprocal Verbs and Einander

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Tuesday, 5 April 2011

Where Have All the Posts Gone?

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I've taken most of the content of my posts out in an attempt to get round Feedburner's size limits which are stopping my podcasts ap...
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Friday, 1 April 2011

Reflexive Verbs

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Sunday, 27 March 2011

Reflexive Pronouns

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Sunday, 14 November 2010

Adjectives and Adjectival Endings

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Thursday, 21 October 2010

Must Read German Children's Books

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Saturday, 24 July 2010

How to Use a Dictionary

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Monday, 5 April 2010

General Tips & Tricks

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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 app...
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Saturday, 9 January 2010

Relative Pronouns3

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Saturday, 22 August 2009

Relative Pronouns 2

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This podcast covers relative pronouns after prepositions and some other special cases. To listen to this podcast directly on your computer, ...
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Tuesday, 21 July 2009

New Web Address

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http://sites.google.com/site/germangrammarpod/home .
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Sunday, 31 May 2009

Relative Pronouns

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Sunday, 26 April 2009

The Conditional 3

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Sunday, 19 April 2009

The Conditional - Part 2

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This episode is about more of the really practical stuff you need to know about the conditional. To listen to the episode directly on you...
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Sunday, 1 February 2009

The Conditional and Umlauts

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The conditional basically means sentences with a would. For instance, if I were rich, I would buy a house. To download this podcast directly...
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Sunday, 30 November 2008

Word Order - Multi-Clause Sentences

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Sunday, 13 July 2008

Wedding

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Word Order - Exceptions to the Standard Main Clause

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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 ...
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Sunday, 6 April 2008

Word Order in a Standard Main Clause

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German word order in a completely standard, neutral main clause is a follows: * nominative subject, * conjugated verb, * accusative then dat...
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Saturday, 22 March 2008

Your Recommendations

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I've noticed that the blog post about everyone's recommendations for German learning resources on the Internet has slipped off the b...
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Wednesday, 27 February 2008

February's podcast

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Hi all, It's my aim to put a podcast out every calendar month, but I won't be able to make it this month (February 2008). In part I...
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Sunday, 27 January 2008

The Pluperfect

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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 ...
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Sunday, 13 January 2008

Names for the Past Tenses

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I've recently had an email from Jim who mentions that there are a lot of names for the German past tenses in both English and German, wh...
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Monday, 31 December 2007

The Simple Past

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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 ). Th...
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Saturday, 24 November 2007

When to Use the Perfect Tense

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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 ha...
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Monday, 22 October 2007

Past Tenses: How to Use The Perfect

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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 use...
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Sunday, 30 September 2007

The future tense & the verb werden

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Hallo all, It's been longer than I intended yet again, but I've finally managed to finish another episode of German GrammarPod. This...
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Sunday, 12 August 2007

Your recommendations for German podcasts

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Hello blog readers, A couple of weeks ago, I had a request from Chris in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, asking if I could recommend any good po...
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The present tense

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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 Sar...
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Sunday, 1 July 2007

Cases: The Genitive Case

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The genitive case is used to indicate possession, like of or apostrophe-s ('s) does in English. However, apart from in formal, written ...
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Sunday, 27 May 2007

Gap between episodes

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Hi everyone, I was planning to do another German Grammarpod this weekend, but my laptop's been stolen, so I'll have to wait till I g...
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Sunday, 6 May 2007

The Dative Case

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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 th...
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Sunday, 18 March 2007

The Accusative Case

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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 ...
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Sunday, 25 February 2007

Cases: The Nominative Case

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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: No...
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Sunday, 21 January 2007

How to subscribe

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It's occurred to me that not everyone who wants to know about German grammar knows what you need to do to download a podcast onto their ...
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Thursday, 11 January 2007

The Gender Podcast

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I finally have my first podcast up and running. You wouldn't believe how complicated publishing podcasts is, and I thought the long bit ...
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Monday, 1 January 2007

About the Podcast

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The podcast accompanying this blog is aimed at explaining the world of German grammar. Its aim is to be accessible to all levels of learner,...
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I learnt German at school and hated it - no one wanted to explain the structures to me. Back then I thought that there couldn't be any structures in German, otherwise people would explain how they work to me to save me a lot of time and effort. So I gave up German. Fortunately, I ended up doing my gap year in Germany, learning German in classes for foreigners, and then studying German at university. And finally, people wanted to teach me grammar. I was lucky, I get grammar, it stuck in my head, and I graduated with a first class degree with distinction in the spoken and written language. Since then, I've worked as a translation checker and a financial analyst with a focus on German-speaking regions, and I'm now a financial translator. I also had a brief go at teacher training, but quit, partly because 30 11-year-olds in a room really give me stage fright, but partly because teaching theory dictated that teachers focus on speaking and avoid teaching the interesting bit: the grammar. So now, I'm making German GrammarPod, to try and pass on the love and understanding of grammar, but without the bit where I need to stand up in front of 30 11-year-olds to deliver it.
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