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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

Multi-word verbs

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

Jun 19, 2023•6 min

Strong adjectives

Listen to our fantastic, wonderful programme about strong adjectives.

Jun 06, 2023•6 min

New words

Rob and Catherine are here to help you update your language!

May 22, 2023•6 min

Weather words

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

May 15, 2023•6 min

Homophones

Learn about words that sound the same but have different meanings

May 09, 2023•6 min

Compound nouns

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

May 02, 2023•6 min

Adjective order

We explain the order you put adjectives in when describing a dog!

Apr 24, 2023•6 min

Contractions

Finn and Feifei help you learn this important part of speaking and writing, in English.

Apr 17, 2023•6 min

Job suffixes

What's the connection between a teacher, a driver or a presenter?

Apr 03, 2023•6 min

Word stress

Do you know how to pronounce the words photographer and photograph? We can help you.

Mar 27, 2023•6 min

Compound adjectives

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

Mar 20, 2023•6 min

Lexical sets

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

Mar 13, 2023•6 min

-ing and -ed adjectives

Interested or interesting? Which adjective do you use? We discuss -ing and -ed adjectives

Mar 06, 2023•6 min

Useful chunks of language

Do you like to eat a full English breakfast? Listen to find out how to use this phrase.

Feb 20, 2023•6 min

Suffixes

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

Jan 30, 2023•6 min

Academic Vocabulary

Do you have to write academic texts and essays? We give you some tips on how to do it.

Jan 23, 2023•6 min

Talk like Shakespeare

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

Jan 16, 2023•6 min

More irregular verbs

Write, wrote, written. Speak, spoke, spoken - learn more about irregular verbs.

Jan 09, 2023•6 min

Adjectives from names

We discuss a group of adjectives that are made from the names of famous people.

Dec 26, 2022•6 min

Large numbers

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

Dec 19, 2022•6 min

Synonyms

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

Dec 05, 2022•6 min

Commonly misspelled words

Weird or weird? English spelling is fascinating – but it's not always straightforward!

Nov 21, 2022•6 min
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