Learning English Vocabulary

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Build your English vocabulary with these short programmes. Each episode explores a new topic to improve your English.

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Suffixes

Finn and Alice look at a very important part of word building – suffixes.

Jul 27, 2020•6 min

Academic Vocabulary

Do you have to write academic texts and essays? Finn and Neil give you some tips.

Jul 20, 2020•6 min

Talk like Shakespeare

Learn some idioms from 'the Bard' which are in common use today.

Jul 13, 2020•6 min

Irregular verbs 2

Break, broke, broken... We look at verbs that don't behave themselves.

Jul 06, 2020•6 min

Eponyms as nouns and verbs

To google, to hoover... Learn about words that have come from commercial products.

Jun 29, 2020•6 min

Adjectives from names

Freudian, Dickensian, Orwellian... learn about adjectives that come from names.

Jun 22, 2020•6 min

Large numbers

How many stars are there in the universe? Learn how to say big numbers in English.

Jun 15, 2020•6 min

Suffixes -sion -tion -tian

"I have a confesSION: my ambiTION is to meet a MarTIAN!" - We teach you suffixes.

Jun 08, 2020•6 min

Synonyms

Learn about synonyms - words that have the same or similar meaning.

Jun 01, 2020•6 min

Discourse Markers: Interjections

Do you know your ouch! from your ugh!? These words are called interjections.

May 25, 2020•6 min

Commonly misspelled words

Finn and Catherine talk through some of the complexities of English spelling.

May 18, 2020•6 min

6 Minute Vocabulary: Academic Vocabulary

Neil and Finn's top tips for dealing with specialist vocabulary

Mar 19, 2018•6 min

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