Speak Well by Eve Rydel
Speak Well by Eve Rydel
Eve Rydel
Podcasts on a variety of topics all designed to help you speak English well. The focus is on using proper English and emphasizing how to avoid commonly made mistakes by ESL learners. Don't delay build your confidence in English as of today. Contact information: [email protected] or 501-520-361 Need Lessons? Skype lessons or face to face in downtown Warsaw
Please help Ukraine and the refugees
Please stand with Ukraine in this difficult time. 
Mar 8, 2022
4 min
Comfortable vs. Convenient (meaning and usage)
armchair, chair or sofa are comfortable This armchair is quite comfortable.  vs. It is convenient that my job is close to my home.  My job is conveniently located.
Aug 6, 2021
5 min
Pronunication of words ending in "able" and the pronunication of able as a word that stands alone
comfortable, vegetable, doable, remarkable, admirable, adorable, agreeable, available able is a suffix meaning it is added to the end of the word - pronounication as if you were to say "a bull" when it is a part of a word Explanation of prefix vs. suffix happy - unhappy (un = prefix un= not so - not happy)  happiness - ness - is a suffix which means state of being or the condition  un = prefix able vs. unable - I am able to swim.  I am unable to fly a plane.  I am able to speak English. The pronunciaton is different  able - /ˈeɪb(ə)l/ 
Aug 6, 2021
7 min
Stative Verbs: Emotions
adore, appeal, appreciate, desire,despise, detest, dislike, fear, feel, forgive, hate, like, love, mind, need, pity, prefer, satisfy, trust, want and wish
Aug 17, 2019
22 min
Stative Verbs: Existence: be & exist
Be - stative and non-stative uses   Conjugating of the verb be: I am, You are, He is, She is, It is, We are, You are, They are  Exist - stative use only
Aug 17, 2019
7 min
Stative Verbs: Thinking (part B)
mean, realise, suppose, suspect, think, understand
Aug 17, 2019
4 min
Stative Verbs: Thinking (part A)
believe, consider, doubt, expect, imagine, know, realise 
Aug 17, 2019
7 min
Stative Verbs: Communication Category
Communication Stative Verbs: agree, deny, disagree These 3 verbs must be used in the present simple not the continuous
Aug 17, 2019
3 min
Stative & non stative verbs ex. have/having vs. think/thinking
Verb - describes an action Stative verbs - describe states of being. ex. I am happy/angry/sad/mad. Stative verbs - are used in the present simple tenses When stative verbs don't describe a state but an action then they are used in the continuous tenses.  ex. I have a cup of coffee in the morning.  (state)   vs.  I am having a cup of coffee now. (action)      She has a cough. (state) vs. She is caughing. (action)
Aug 17, 2019
10 min
Idioms from Time (part B)
This is second part of the episode on idioms from time.   it's high time to do something - for ex. it's high time to do the laundry, dishes, bills etc.  to take one's time or to take your sweet time -  not to hurry ex. to take your time doing your makeup to call it a day - to stop working on a given activity for the day.  on the spur of the moment - spontaneously  the time is right to do "something" - the time is correct or the time is good ex. the time is right to buy a house/get married/go on vacation etc.                                                                                             
Aug 16, 2019
11 min
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