Learning English Vocabulary

Build your English vocabulary with these short programmes. Each episode explores a new topic to impr

Episodes

Total: 260

Commonly misspelled words

2024/1/29

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

Linking words

2024/1/9

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

Are you unsure whether it’s disc or disk, sympathise or sympathize, learnt or learned?

Acronyms

2023/12/25

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

Antonyms

2023/12/19

Finn and Catherine discuss antonyms in 6 minute Vocabulary.

Suffixes: -ness & -ity

2023/12/11

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

fortunately, obviously, seriously, ideally.

ExciteMENT, performANCE, differENCE - how suffixes turn verbs and adjectives into nouns.

Learn how to use these very useful pronouns with 'some' and 'any'.

Irregular verbs

2023/11/13

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

Reporting verbs

2023/11/7

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

False friends

2023/10/30

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

Words with 'ough'

2023/10/23

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

Easily confused words

2023/10/16

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

Suffixes: -less and -free

2023/10/9

Is this a smoke-free or a smokeless workplace? Learn the difference!

Prefixes de, dis, dys

2023/10/2

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

Ordinal numbers

2023/9/25

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

Short spoken forms

2023/9/18

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

Uncountable nouns

2023/9/11

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

Learn how to use time expression with the preposition in, on and at