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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

Strong adjectives

'Terrified', 'fantastic', 'amazing' - learn how to use strong adjectives.

Nov 30, 2020•6 min

New words

'Selfie', 'photobomb', 'trolling'. Learn what these new words mean and how they are made.

Nov 16, 2020•6 min

Weather words

The British love to talk about weather! Learn some useful vocabulary about it here.

Nov 09, 2020•6 min

Homophones

Mail and male... Learn about words that sound the same but have different spellings.

Nov 02, 2020•6 min

Compound nouns

Ice cream, popcorn... Learn about nouns made up of a combination of two words.

Oct 26, 2020•6 min

Similar words

We talk about words like 'big' and 'large' and explore the similarities between them.

Oct 19, 2020•6 min

Adjective order

This is a big, old, smelly dog! Learn which adjective has to come first.

Oct 12, 2020•6 min

Contractions

"I've run a marathon." Look at the shorter form 'I've'. Learn how to use contractions.

Oct 05, 2020•6 min

Job suffixes

What's the connection between a teacher, a driver and a presenter? We explain.

Sep 28, 2020•6 min

Word stress

How to pronounce the words 'photographer' and 'photograph'? Learn about word stress.

Sep 21, 2020•6 min

Compound adjectives

Learn how to use compound adjectives (e.g. low-fat yoghurt, high-quality carbohydrates).

Sep 14, 2020•6 min

Lexical sets

Finn and Catherine give you some tips on how to remember new words.

Sep 07, 2020•6 min

-ing and -ed adjectives

Boring or bored? Interested or interesting? We'll tell you the right adjective to use.

Aug 31, 2020•6 min

Binomials

Learn how to use these short English phrases made of two words that go together.

Aug 24, 2020•6 min

Chunks of language

Find out how you can sound much more natural by learning and using chunks of language.

Aug 17, 2020•6 min

Prefixes

Have no fear... Finn and Alice are here and they'll teach you everything about prefixes!

Aug 10, 2020•6 min

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

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

Synonyms

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

Jun 01, 2020•6 min
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