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Learning English Vocabulary
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 Follow us at bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus
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Episodes
Large numbers 26.02.2024 6:14
How many stars are there in the universe? Learn how to say big numbers in English.
Suffixes: -tian, -sion and -tion 19.02.2024 6:43
Have we got your attention? Listen and learn how to use suffixes -tian, -sion and -tion.
Synonyms 12.02.2024 6:31
Learn about words that have the same or similar meanings
Discourse Markers: Interjections 05.02.2024 6:34
Do you know your ouch! from your ugh!? These words are called interjections.
Commonly misspelled words 29.01.2024 5:58
Weird or wierd? English spelling is fascinating – but it's not always straightforward!
Linking words 09.01.2024 6:11
Listen to Angela talk about her lucky shark escape and learn some linking words.
Words with more than one spelling 01.01.2024 6:21
Are you unsure whether it’s disc or disk, sympathise or sympathize, learnt or learned?
Acronyms 25.12.2023 6:18
Listen to Peter and Catherine talking about acronyms like NASA and FIFA in this podcast.
Antonyms 19.12.2023 6:19
Finn and Catherine discuss antonyms in 6 minute Vocabulary.
Suffixes: -ness & -ity 11.12.2023 6:19
Listen to Neil and Catherine talk about words with the suffixes -ness and -ity.
Discourse markers: showing attitude 05.12.2023 6:19
fortunately, obviously, seriously, ideally.
Suffixes: -ment, -ance, -ence 27.11.2023 6:15
ExciteMENT, performANCE, differENCE - how suffixes turn verbs and adjectives into nouns.
Someone, somewhere, anywhere... 20.11.2023 6:19
Learn how to use these very useful pronouns with 'some' and 'any'.
Irregular verbs 13.11.2023 6:07
Choose, chose, chosen... We talk about verbs that don't follow the -ed pattern.
Reporting verbs 07.11.2023 6:20
Learn about verbs that we use when we talk about what someone else has said.
False friends 30.10.2023 6:13
Embarrassed - or pregnant? Words you think you know but mean something else in English.
Words with 'ough' 23.10.2023 6:19
Cough, thought, enough, although: Learn how to pronounce words with 'ough'.
Easily confused words 16.10.2023 6:19
Boring or bored? Learn about words that look similar but have very different meaning.
Suffixes: -less and -free 09.10.2023 6:19
Is this a smoke-free or a smokeless workplace? Learn the difference!
Prefixes de, dis, dys 02.10.2023 6:19
Do you suffer from dyspepsia? Could a detox diet help? Learn about prefixes.
Ordinal numbers 25.09.2023 6:21
What's the date today? And do you know how to say it?
Short spoken forms 18.09.2023 6:07
Gonna, wanna, dunno, whatcha… are these really English words? Who uses them and why?
Uncountable nouns 11.09.2023 6:21
What is more important in life: knowledge, money or happiness?
Time expression with in, on and at 04.09.2023 6:21
Learn how to use time expression with the preposition in, on and at
Hyphenation 25.08.2023 6:18
Find out why we write some phrases with hyphens but not others.
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