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Listen and Repeat

A Few Favorite "Listen and Repeat" Podcasts from the Past

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Commonly-used Irregular Verbs - Part 3 (1:54)

Listen and Repeat to Learn Verb Conjugation and Pronunciation

Try listening to this podcast a few times every day for one week.
feel, felt, felt
hold, held, held
stand, stood, stood
understand, understood, understood
lose, lost, lost
catch, caught, caught

buy, bought, bought
send, sent, sent 
fall, fell, fallen
choose, chose, chosen
sleep, slept, slept
speak, spoke, spoken

meet, met, met
lead, led, led
bite, bit,  bitten
hit, hit, hit
drive, drove, driven
break, broke, broken

Commonly-used Irregular Verbs - Part 2 (1:41)

Listen and Repeat to Learn Verb Conjugation and Pronunciation

Try listening to this podcast a few times every day for one week.
take, took, taken
put, put, put
tell, told, told
give, gave, given
read, read, read
keep, kept, kept

begin, began, begun
let, let, let
hear, heard, heard
cut, cut, cut
eat, ate, eaten *
run, ran, run

bring, brought, brought
become, became, become
grow, grew, grown
draw, drew, drawn
show, showed, shown
mean, meant, meant

* Note that I clearly pronounced the "t" in "eaten."
  Sometimes people don't, especially when speaking at a normal speed.

Adjectives for People (1:59)

Listen and Repeat to Learn Sentence Patterns and Vocabulary

This is an example of how a podcast can present (and review) sentence patterns and a list of vocabulary items. Listen and repeat to this more than once. Practice hard to get the same intonation and pronunciation.