Learning English Vocabulary

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

Episodes

Total: 260

Hyphenation

2023/8/25

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

Words with double letters

2023/8/21

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

Learn how to pronounce verbs and nouns with Neil and Catherine.

Catherine and Doug discuss British and American English

Business jargon

2023/7/31

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

'c' or 's'? Learn how to spell words that begin with a /s/ sound.

Phrasal verbs and context

2023/7/17

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

re, pre and pro

2023/7/10

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

Silent letters

2023/7/3

How do you pronounce the words night and knight?

Onomatopoeia

2023/6/26

Learn about words that sound like the thing they describe.

Multi-word verbs

2023/6/19

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

We explain how some adjectives end in either -ic or -ical, depending on their meaning.

Strong adjectives

2023/6/6

Listen to our fantastic, wonderful programme about strong adjectives.

Male and female job words

2023/5/29

How words change depending on whether a man or a woman is doing the job.

New words

2023/5/22

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

Weather words

2023/5/15

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

Homophones

2023/5/9

Learn about words that sound the same but have different meanings

Compound nouns

2023/5/2

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

Adjective order

2023/4/24

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

Contractions

2023/4/17

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