Here is a short story using the past perfect continuous tense.
Listen as I read so you can see how they are used in real life conversation.
After I'm done make sure you understand all the grammar and read aloud yourself so that you can work
on your own fluency and pronunciation.
It seemed to me that your brother was depressed a year ago.
Yeah he'd been feeling down since he lost his job.
Could you just imagine that he got a perfect job at one startup company.
The launch was going smoothly and then seven months later they lost the funding so at the time the company
lost the funding.
Your brother had been working there for seven months.
Correct.
We know that it seemed like such a short period of time for some people but my brother had been dreaming
about this amazing job opportunity for years.
Yeah and the standard.