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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

Commonly misspelled words

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

Jan 29, 2024•6 min

Linking words

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

Jan 09, 2024•6 min

Acronyms

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

Dec 25, 2023•6 min

Antonyms

Finn and Catherine discuss antonyms in 6 minute Vocabulary.

Dec 19, 2023•6 min

Suffixes: -ness & -ity

Listen to Neil and Catherine talk about words with the suffixes -ness and -ity.

Dec 11, 2023•6 min

Irregular verbs

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

Nov 13, 2023•6 min

Reporting verbs

Learn about verbs that we use when we talk about what someone else has said.

Nov 07, 2023•6 min

False friends

Embarrassed - or pregnant? Words you think you know but mean something else in English.

Oct 30, 2023•6 min

Words with 'ough'

Cough, thought, enough, although: Learn how to pronounce words with 'ough'.

Oct 23, 2023•6 min

Easily confused words

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

Oct 16, 2023•6 min

Prefixes de, dis, dys

Do you suffer from dyspepsia? Could a detox diet help? Learn about prefixes.

Oct 02, 2023•6 min

Ordinal numbers

What's the date today? And do you know how to say it?

Sep 25, 2023•6 min

Short spoken forms

Gonna, wanna, dunno, whatcha… are these really English words? Who uses them and why?

Sep 18, 2023•6 min

Uncountable nouns

What is more important in life: knowledge, money or happiness?

Sep 11, 2023•6 min

Hyphenation

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

Aug 25, 2023•6 min

Words with double letters

Catherine and Finn talk about spelling words with double letters in 6 Minute Vocabulary.

Aug 21, 2023•6 min

Business jargon

Can you think out of the box or take the helicopter view at work? Learn business jargon.

Jul 31, 2023•7 min

Phrasal verbs and context

When talking about moving in, moving out and moving on, what do we mean? We explain.

Jul 17, 2023•6 min

re, pre and pro

Do you recycle your rubbish? Do you buy prepacked food? Are you proactive?

Jul 10, 2023•6 min

Silent letters

How do you pronounce the words night and knight?

Jul 03, 2023•7 min

Onomatopoeia

Learn about words that sound like the thing they describe.

Jun 26, 2023•6 min
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