What separates struggling artists from successful ones? Looking to creative geniuses like Mozart, Edison and Monet, video creator Jon Youshaei explains why aiming to be prolific — despite flops and failures along the way — is the key to...

Pupil outcome: I can successfully combine imperfect and present tenses to compare and contrast past and current activities in speaking, and I can accurately translate the imperfect tense into English. Key learning points: - The imperfect...

Pupil outcome: I can use the imperfect, preterite and past continuous tenses in the context of protests and social movements. Key learning points: - 'iba', 'ibas' and 'iba' are the 1st, 2nd and 3rd person singular imperfect forms of...

Pupil outcome: I can use the imperfect, past continuous and preterite tenses to write an extended past-tense account. Key learning points: - The imperfect tense is used for what used to happen repeatedly and to set the scene in...

Pupil outcome: I can use knowledge of the imperfect and preterite to respond to reading comprehension questions in the context of the work of Arturo Pérez Reverte. Key learning points: - The 1st, 2nd and 3rd person plural imperfect...

Pupil outcome: I can distinguish between the present and imperfect tenses in the life of a Nuyorican. Key learning points: - The imperfect tense is used to talk about habitual actions in the past or to describe how things were in the...

Pupil outcome: I can understand and describe family events and issues using a checklist for range of language and accuracy. Key learning points: - The perfect tense, the imperfect tense and the present tense can be usefully combined to...

Pupil outcome: I can use irregular verbs in the perfect tense and ‘mochte’ in the imperfect tense in the context of career choices. Key learning points: - Some past participles are irregular. - In the imperfect tense, the stem of 'mögen'...

Pupil outcome: I can describe what I and others 'were doing' and what 'was happening' using the imperfect tense. Key learning points: - The imperfect tense is used to describe what 'was happening' or what you 'were doing' when something...

Pupil outcome: I can use the verb 'ser' in the present and imperfect tense to describe healthcare in Spain. Key learning points: - 'Es means 'she, he, it is' and 'era' means 'I, she, he, it was'. - The pronouns 'yo', 'él' and 'ella' make...

Pupil outcome: I can use plural forms of the imperfect tense in the context of protests and social movements. Key learning points: - ábamos, -abais and -aban are the 1st, 2nd and 3rd person plural endings of -ar verbs in the imperfect...

We've learned about present tense and future tense, so now let's learn a past tense. The first past tense we will learn is the imperfect tense, for the first and second conjugations. This tense describes a progressive or habitual action...

We've learned the simpler future and imperfect tenses for regular first and second conjugation verbs. But there are irregular verbs that will also need to use these tenses, and some of them are very common, such as the verb sum, so we...

Why it's important for composers to not pretend we know everything, and why curiosity is the best tool a composer can have

Why it's important for composers to not pretend we know everything, and why curiosity is the best tool a composer can have

While many drugs are available to treat bipolar disorder and psychotic symptoms, finding the right medication often involves trial and error, with treatments primarily managing symptoms rather than curing the condition. Lithium remains...

This is the 8th video of German with Puppets Series #2. In this video my puppets explain how to use the imperfect tense (simple past or narrative past) with regular verbs.

This is the same list of German irregular verbs and their 3 parts (infinitive, simple past, present perfect) from the other video, but this time they are auto-tuned to make it seem more interesting. It really isn't any more interesting....

This video is an extra in the German with Puppets Series #2. In this video, my puppets demonstrate the three principal parts of German verbs. A new take on an old list.

What can Thomas Godoj's song "Was wäre wenn" teach you about German grammar?

Alexa conjugates the French verb être (to be) in the imperfect tense.

Alexa conjugates the French verb avoir (to have) in the imperfect tense.

Alexa teaches you the very useful French verb FALLOIR (to be necessary/to need).

Alexa teaches you how to conjugate Vouloir (to want) in 5 main French tenses.