Learning English Vocabulary

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

Episodes

Total: 261

Commonly misspelled words

2022/11/21

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

Linking words

2022/11/14

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

Disk or disc? Confused about which one to use? Finn and Catherine talk about spelling.

Acronyms

2022/10/31

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

Antonyms

2022/10/24

A good way of building vocabulary in English is to learn words with opposite meanings.

Suffixes: -ness and -ity

2022/10/17

‘Happiness’ and 'responsibility'. Learn words with the suffixes -ness and -ity.

Fortunately, obviously, seriously, ideally. These words are useful. How do we use them?

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

Learn about words like someone, nothing and anywhere in 6 minutes.

Irregular verbs

2022/9/12

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

Easily confused words

2022/9/5

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

Suffixes: -less and -free

2022/8/26

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

Prefixes: dys- de- dis-

2022/8/15

Do you suffer from DYSpepsia? Could a DEtox diet help? Neil and Finn talk about prefixes.

Ordinal numbers

2022/8/8

What's the date today? Do you know how to say it? Listen to the programme to find out.

Spoken short forms

2022/8/1

Gonna, wanna, dunno, whatcha... We give you an introduction to short spoken forms.

Uncountable nouns

2022/7/25

Can you count knowledge, money or happiness? How to deal with uncountable nouns.

Time expressions

2022/7/18

We look at time expressions with 'in', 'at' and 'on'.

Hyphenation

2022/7/11

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

We talk about spelling words with double letters, such as 'accommodation'.

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