English with Pivee
Pivee's English lessons and talks on YouTube, newest first.
5:58Grammar · 14 January 2024
විනාඩි පහෙන් Tenses පහක් ඉගෙනගන්න ක්ලාස් නොගිහින් ගම්පහ මල්වත්තට එන්න 😼
Five tenses in five minutes, and where to keep learning for free on Engreesi.
5:25Grammar · 12 January 2024
මේ වාක්‍යය ඉංග්‍රීසියෙන් කියන්නෙ කොහොමද? - "මම මේ බොන්නෙ කෝපි."
How to say "මම මේ බොන්නෙ කෝපි.": some ideas need no complicated sentence pattern.
2:37Grammar · 9 January 2024
"මට හොඳ යාළුවො ටික දෙනයි ඉන්නෙ." - "few" or "a few" - English Grammar
How to say "මට හොඳ යාළුවො ටික දෙනයි ඉන්නෙ": "few" or "a few"?
3:49Engspire news · 6 January 2024
Learn English for Free in Sri Lanka - ශ්‍රී ලංකාවෙ හැමෝටම නොමිලේ ඉංග්‍රීසි ඉගෙන්ගන්න පුළුවන් ඇප් එක
Introducing the Engreesi Web App: free English lessons for everyone in Sri Lanka, with no ads and no account.
5:00Engspire news · 9 June 2023
Learn English with Pivee + Engspire 🦢
An announcement from June 2023 about the spoken English and grammar courses at Engspire.
3:40Grammar · 8 May 2023
"I have to learn" or "I get to learn"?
"I have to learn" or "I get to learn"? The difference between a duty and a chance.
3:59Engspire news · 27 March 2023
Learn English with @pivee at @engspire
An advert from March 2023 for Engspire’s grammar and spoken English classes.
2:39Learning tips · 21 February 2023
මුල ඉඳලා ඉංග්‍රීසි ඉගෙනගන්න ඔයා මේ ගැන කලින් හිතලා තිබුණද?
Something to think about before you start learning English from the beginning.
3:00Pronunciation · 27 December 2022
ඔයා "caught" කියන විදියටමද "coat" කියන්නෙ?
Do you say "caught" and "coat" the same way? A feature of Sri Lankan pronunciation.
4:45Vocabulary · 13 October 2022
හෝ... වැස්ස වහිනවා 😁
It is raining: English idioms about the rain.
6:59Talks · 12 October 2022
අපි හැමෝටම තියෙන්නෙ සීමිත කාලයක්
A short talk from Pivee: we all have limited time.
6:58Learning tips · 8 October 2022
ඉංග්‍රීසි මුල ඉඳලා ඉගෙනගන්න අයට උපදෙසක්
Advice for anyone learning English from the beginning.
6:35Pronunciation · 30 September 2022
ඔයා දන්නෙත් නැත්ද "ව", "V", "W" වෙනස?
The difference between "ව", V and W, and why it matters.
5:19Vocabulary · 28 September 2022
How to use "Show your colors"
"Show your true colors" sounds like something we say in Sinhala, but it means something quite different.
3:30Learning tips · 26 December 2021
ඉංග්‍රීසි හොඳට ඉගෙනගන්න මොනවද කරන්න ඕන?
Two mistakes people make while learning English, and what to do instead.
5:22Engspire news · 19 December 2021
Engspire 🇱🇰 | Spoken English for Conversations
An advert from December 2021 about joining the Engspire spoken English programme. It is not a lesson.
10:07Learning tips · 19 December 2021
අපේ ඉංග්‍රීසි වාග්මාලව (Vocabulary) ඉම්පෲව් කරගන්නෙ කොහොමද? 🤔
How to grow the number of English words you know, and what to do to learn new ones.
7:29Grammar · 16 December 2021
How to say "මම කසුන් ලවා මගෙ නම්බර් එක එයාට දුන්නා..."
How to say "මම කසුන් ලවා මගෙ නම්බර් එක එයාට දුන්නා": getting someone else to do something.
14:05Learning tips · 1 December 2021
අපි කතා කරන්නෙ වචනවලින් විතරක් නෙවෙයි... හිතන්න Body Language ගැනත්
We do not speak with words alone: body language when you talk or give a presentation.
3:15Vocabulary · 30 November 2021
වරදින ඉංග්‍රීසි වචන හරියට ඉගෙනගමු: "apologize"
The word "apologize": the mistake many of us make with it, and the three patterns that are correct.
3:59Grammar · 4 November 2021
"මට SMS එකක් ආවා" කියද්දි "I got... a SMS ද an SMS ද" හරි?
"I got a SMS" or "an SMS"? The real difference between "a" and "an".
3:32Talks · 3 November 2021
කවුරුත් කතා කරන්නෑ අපි කරන්නෙ කොහොමද කියන එක ගැන 😞
A short talk from Pivee: "කවුරුත් කතා කරන්නෑ අපි කරන්නෙ කොහොමද කියන එක ගැන".
3:53Vocabulary · 20 October 2021
"කීවෙනි කෙනාද?" කියලා ඉංග්‍රීසියෙන් අහන්නෙ කොහොමද?
How to ask "කීවෙනි කෙනාද?" in English, when English has no single word for it.
5:53Vocabulary · 30 September 2021
"I'm busy" කියල කියන්න තව ක්‍රම ටිකක්
More ways to say "I’m busy", from a little busy to completely overwhelmed.
1:25Vocabulary · 27 September 2021
"What's the different?" කියන්න එපා
Don’t say "What’s the different?" A short video on how to fix it.
12:54Grammar · 14 September 2021
ඉංග්‍රීසි ඉගෙනගනිද්දි දැනගන්න ඕන Spelling Changes in Verbs
How a verb’s spelling changes when you add "-ed" or "-ing".
8:41Talks · 10 August 2021
ලංකාවෙ බබාලට ලේසියෙන් ඉංග්‍රීසි ඉගෙනගන්න පාවිච්චි කරන්න පුළුවන් පොත් සෙට් එකක්
A look at a set of books, flash cards and a CD from Easy English that help Sri Lankan children learn English.
16:16Pronunciation · 6 May 2021
ඉංග්‍රීසි කතා කරනකොට හිර වෙන්නෙ නැතුව කතා කරන හැටි
Connected speech: we do not say English the way we write it, and knowing that helps you speak without getting stuck.
10:45Grammar · 26 April 2021
ඉංග්‍රීසියෙන් කතා කරද්දි අනාගතේ ගැන කතා කරන මූලික ක්‍රම ටිකක්
The basic ways to talk about the future in English, for people learning from the beginning.
7:03Grammar · 18 February 2021
අපිට ආදරේ කෙනෙක්ටයි අපි ආදරේ කරන්න ඕනෙ
How to say "we should love someone who loves us": part of the relative clauses series.
12:25Grammar · 18 February 2021
Marmite එක්ක සිංහලෙන් Present Tense ඉගෙනගනිමු 😊
A simple overview of how the present tenses fit together, with Marmite.
7:50Grammar · 3 February 2021
මට මගේ ගර්ල්ෆ්‍රෙන්ඩ්ගෙන් ලැබුණු ලියුම්
How to say "the letters I got from my girlfriend": part of the relative clauses series.
13:44Grammar · 3 February 2021
Nounsවල Plural Forms ගැන Basic දේවල්
The basics of plural nouns: what a beginner needs to know to make one noun into many.
3:16Grammar · 17 January 2021
"Will" ආවම වරදින වෙලාවලුත් තියෙනවා...
Do we use "will" after when, before, after and as soon as? A small grammar mistake, and how to avoid it.
7:45Learning tips · 21 December 2020
ඉංග්‍රීසි ඉම්පෲව් කරගන්නෙ කොහොමද?
Pivee’s answer to a question many people asked: what should I do to improve my English?
6:13Talks · 16 December 2020
ඔයා මේ අංකල් වගේ වෙන්න එපා 😉
A short video from Pivee: "ඔයා මේ අංකල් වගේ වෙන්න එපා".
5:58Engspire news · 13 December 2020
මගෙ Zoom Sessions ගැන විස්තර
Details of Pivee’s Zoom sessions, as they were in December 2020.
8:47Grammar · 13 December 2020
මගේ ගර්ල්-ෆ්‍රෙන්ඩ් ගැන 😒
The first video in a series on relative clauses, told through a video about Pivee’s girlfriend.
8:35Grammar · 9 December 2020
ඔයාටත් "been"/"being" පැටලෙනවද?
When to use "been" and when to use "being", two words that are easy to mix up.
4:01Vocabulary · 8 December 2020
"What are you?" කියලා අහන්න එපා
Why you should not ask "What are you?" in English.
14:43Grammar · 30 November 2020
Verbs ගැන Basic දේවල් Sinhalen
The basics of English verbs, explained in Sinhala.
11:30Talks · 30 November 2020
මගෙ Bank Account එක හැක් කරලා! 😱😱😱
The story of the day Pivee’s bank account was hacked.
7:14Talks · 27 November 2020
"හුදෙකලාව" - 2020-11-28 - ඔයාලා අහපු ප්‍රශ්නෙකට උත්තර
Pivee answers a question viewers asked, about loneliness (හුදෙකලාව).
19:00Pronunciation · 26 November 2020
සිංහල අපි English Consonants කියන විදිය
How we say English consonant sounds as Sinhala speakers.
10:15Pronunciation · 17 November 2020
ශ්‍රී ලංකාවෙ අපේ English Pronunciation තව ටිකක් ලස්සන කරගමුද?
How the way we speak English in Sri Lanka differs from other countries, and whether we need to sound like them.
14:00Grammar · 13 November 2020
Nouns, Adjectives, Verbs... (Parts of Speech) සිංහලෙන්
Nouns, adjectives, verbs and the other word classes, explained in Sinhala for people starting English from the beginning.
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