welcome back Sakura san
very fun lesson today

Can someone explain this sentence found in the PDF, 確か、サトシは７時に来るって言ってたと思うよ。

I don’t understand the た in the sentence. Why is it 言ってた and not 言った?

言ってた is the spoken form of 言っていた , the past progressive of 言う.

The いる part of the progressive tense is often shortened to just -る

(言う->言っている->言ってる->言ってた)

As to why it’s the past progressive instead of the plain past … hm, I guess it’s because the speaker is talking about the result of the 言う action (”I thought he said he would be here at 7″ ie: we have this information as a result of his saying so) rather than simply describing the fact that サトシ said something (7時に来るって言った : he said “I’ll be here at 7″)

I’m not sure if it’s right and/or clear….

Hi. I’d like to invite everyone to re-visit the following old forum thread requesting for “ruby characters” (furigana) in the main “kanji + kana” transcripts, instead of having a separate “hiragana-only” section, which has always a bit counter-intuitive to me:

http://www.japanesepod101.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=17982#17982

If you would like to see furigana in the main transcript, please use this opportunity to make yourself heard!

Since I shall be posting identical comments in other levels as well, I do need to apologize in advance to anybody who sees it as “spam”. Thank you so much, everybody!