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Learning English Vocabulary

BBC Radio•www.bbc.co.uk
Education
Language Learning

Build your English vocabulary with these short programmes.

Each week we explore a new topic to improve your English vocabulary. Learn words for the weather, how to talk about people’s jobs, adjective order, and so much more.

Plus, in our English in a Minute episodes, give your vocabulary a boost in under a minute.

Find more at bbclearningenglish.com

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Episodes

Acronyms

Nasa, Fifa, Unesco, Nato - Peter and Catherine talk about acronyms.

Jun 28, 2021•6 min

Antonyms

A good way of building vocabulary in English is to learn words with opposite meanings.

Jun 21, 2021•6 min

Irregular verbs

Choose, chose, chosen... We talk about verbs that don't follow the -ed pattern.

May 10, 2021•6 min

Reporting verbs

Learn about verbs that we use when we talk about what someone else has said.

May 03, 2021•6 min

False friends

Embarrassed - or pregnant? Words you think you know but mean something else in English.

Apr 26, 2021•6 min

Words with 'ough'

Cough, thought, enough, although: Learn how to pronounce words with 'ough'.

Apr 19, 2021•6 min

Easily confused words

Boring or bored? Learn about words that look similar but have very different meaning.

Apr 13, 2021•6 min

Prefixes: dys- de- dis-

Do you suffer from DYSpepsia? Could a DEtox diet help? Neil and Finn talk about prefixes.

Mar 29, 2021•6 min

Ordinal numbers

What's the date today? Do you know how to say it? Listen to the programme to find out.

Mar 22, 2021•6 min

Short spoken forms

Learn how these words are used: gonna, wanna, dunno, whatcha.

Mar 15, 2021•6 min

Uncountable nouns

Can you count knowledge, money or happiness? How to deal with uncountable nouns.

Mar 08, 2021•6 min

Time expressions

Neil and Catherine look at time expressions with 'in', 'at' and 'on'.

Mar 01, 2021•6 min

Hyphenation

Learn how to use hyphens: "They did a ten-foot dive into the swimming pool."

Feb 22, 2021•6 min

Words with double letters

Catherine and Neil talk about spelling words with double letters, such as 'accommodation'.

Feb 15, 2021•6 min

Business jargon

Can you think out of the box or take the helicopter view at work? Learn business jargon.

Jan 25, 2021•6 min

Phrasal verbs and context

A guide to multi-word verbs and prepositions that can change the meaning of phrasal verbs.

Jan 11, 2021•6 min

Silent letters

We talk about letters in English that we see in words but don’t actually pronounce.

Dec 28, 2020•7 min

Onomatopoeia

Learn about words that sound like the thing they describe.

Dec 21, 2020•6 min

Multi-word verbs

Do you ever 'meet up with' your friend in the park? We talk about multi-word verbs.

Dec 14, 2020•6 min
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