Suffixes
Finn and Alice look at a very important part of word building – suffixes.
Oct 04, 2021•6 min
Learning English Vocabulary
Build your English vocabulary with these short programmes. Each episode explores a new topic to improve your English.
Find more at bbclearningenglish.com
Follow us at bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus
Episodes
Academic Vocabulary
Do you have to write academic texts and essays? Finn and Neil give you some tips.
Sep 27, 2021•6 min
Talk like Shakespeare
Learn some idioms from 'the Bard' which are in common use today.
Sep 20, 2021•6 min
Irregular verbs 2
Break, broke, broken... We look at verbs that don't behave themselves.
Sep 13, 2021•6 min
Eponyms as nouns and verbs
To google, to hoover... Learn about words that have come from commercial products.
Sep 06, 2021•6 min
Adjectives from names
Freudian, Dickensian, Orwellian... learn about adjectives that come from names.
Aug 30, 2021•6 min
Large numbers
How many stars are there in the universe? Learn how to say big numbers in English.
Aug 23, 2021•6 min
Suffixes -sion -tion -tian
"I have a confession to make. My ambition is to meet a Martian!" - We teach you suffixes.
Aug 16, 2021•6 min
Synonyms
Learn about synonyms - words that have the same or similar meaning.
Aug 09, 2021•6 min
Discourse Markers: Interjections
Do you know your ouch! from your ugh!? These words are called interjections.
Jul 26, 2021•6 min
Commonly misspelled words
Finn and Catherine talk through some of the complexities of English spelling.
Jul 19, 2021•6 min
Linking words
Rob and Catherine talk about words and short phrases used to connect ideas.
Jul 12, 2021•6 min
Words with more than one spelling
Disk or disc? Confused about which one to use? Finn and Catherine talk about spelling.
Jul 05, 2021•6 min
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
Suffixes: -ness & -ity
Learn how to use the suffixes '-ness' and '-ity' in English.
Jun 07, 2021•6 min
Discourse markers: Attitude
Words and phrases we use to express our attitude to what we’re saying or writing.
May 31, 2021•6 min
Suffixes: -ment, -ance, -ence
ExciteMENT, performANCE, differENCE - how suffixes turn verbs and adjectives into nouns.
May 24, 2021•6 min
Someone, somewhere, anywhere...
Learn how to use these very useful pronouns with 'some' and 'any'.
May 17, 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
Suffixes: -less and -free
Is this a smoke-free or a smokeless workplace? Learn the difference!
Apr 05, 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