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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

Linking words

Listen to Angela talk about her lucky shark escape and learn some linking words.

Nov 14, 2022•6 min

Acronyms

Listen to Peter and Catherine talking about acronyms like NASA and FIFA in this podcast.

Oct 31, 2022•6 min

Antonyms

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

Oct 24, 2022•6 min

Suffixes: -ness and -ity

‘Happiness’ and 'responsibility'. Learn words with the suffixes -ness and -ity.

Oct 17, 2022•6 min

Irregular verbs

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

Sep 12, 2022•6 min

Easily confused words

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

Sep 05, 2022•6 min

Prefixes: dys- de- dis-

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

Aug 15, 2022•6 min

Ordinal numbers

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

Aug 08, 2022•6 min

Spoken short forms

Gonna, wanna, dunno, whatcha... We give you an introduction to short spoken forms.

Aug 01, 2022•6 min

Uncountable nouns

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

Jul 25, 2022•6 min

Time expressions

We look at time expressions with 'in', 'at' and 'on'.

Jul 18, 2022•6 min

Hyphenation

Find out why we write some phrases with hyphens but not others.

Jul 11, 2022•6 min

Business jargon

Do you 'think out of the box' or 'push the envelope' at work? Learn business jargon.

May 30, 2022•6 min

Silent letters

Silent letters are letters that we see in words, but don’t actually pronounce.

Apr 29, 2022•7 min

Onomatopoeia

Learn about words that sound like the thing they describe.

Apr 25, 2022•6 min

Multi-word verbs

Learn how to use multi-word verbs to make your English sound much more natural.

Apr 14, 2022•6 min

Strong adjectives

What word do you use when you want to say something is very good or very bad?

Apr 04, 2022•6 min

Contractions

Learn how to use 'I've' and 'isn't' - your English will sound more natural.

Mar 28, 2022•6 min
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