AEE 881: Do Natives Actually Use the Past Perfect?

All Ears English Podcast

Lindsay McMahon

Business, Education, Language Learning

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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0:00.0	This is an All-Eirs-English podcast episode 881. Do natives actually use the past perfect?
0:06.0	Welcome to the All-Eirs English podcast, downloaded more than 50 million times, we believe in Connection Not Perfection
0:17.5	with your American hosts, Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan, the New York Radio Girl, coming to you
0:26.4	from Boston and New York City, USA.
0:31.2	And to get your transcripts delivered by email every week go to all ears English.com
0:37.0	forward slash subscribe.
0:40.0	Today Andrej asks us whether the past perfect is really relevant to use a natural
0:47.6	conversations or whether it's just something we all learned in English class
0:51.2	that will make you sound unnatural.
0:53.3	Find out today.
0:54.3	Hey Michelle, what's going on?
0:58.7	Hey Lindsay, not too much, not too much, enjoying cold weather, not really enjoying it, but you know trying to say positive. How are you?
1:08.0	I mean pretty good, like that's life in New York City, right, Michelle, I mean that's New York City. It gets cold. It gets really hot in the summer and it gets cold in the winter, doesn't it?
1:17.3	Yeah, I shouldn't complain though because you have it worse. I have it worse. I have it worse. I have it worse. I think it doesn't get as hot in the summer here, but it gets really it gets colder in the winter and I don't know how much longer I could say in Boston.
1:29.0	Yeah, I don't blame you. I don't know how much I yeah.
1:32.0	Sometimes I really should just move somewhere.
1:35.0	Uh oh my phone is going. Oh oh trying to get out of the episode again.
1:38.7	Trying to get out of the episode. Okay. All right. I'm across the room from it. Guys, this is real
1:44.0	What should we do? Real time. Do you want to stop? We'll just stop? No, no, no. I think we should I think we should keep going. It'll be done in one second. Okay. Okay. Okay right. We are back at it. So speaking of New York,
1:56.3	Rochelle, I mean you said that you moved to New York about seven years ago, right?
2:00.7	Maybe. Yeah, like seven, almost eight, like seven and a half at this point. Oh my
2:05.6	God, and when you moved, had you been to the city before you had, right?
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