Learning English Vocabulary

by BBC Radio

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

Find more at bbclearningenglish.com

Episodes

Irregular verbs 2

6m · Published 06 Jul 08:00

Break, broke, broken... We look at verbs that don't behave themselves.

Eponyms as nouns and verbs

6m · Published 29 Jun 12:12

To google, to hoover... Learn about words that have come from commercial products.

Adjectives from names

6m · Published 22 Jun 08:00

Freudian, Dickensian, Orwellian... learn about adjectives that come from names.

Large numbers

6m · Published 15 Jun 08:00

How many stars are there in the universe? Learn how to say big numbers in English.

Suffixes -sion -tion -tian

6m · Published 08 Jun 08:00

"I have a confesSION: my ambiTION is to meet a MarTIAN!" - We teach you suffixes.

Synonyms

6m · Published 01 Jun 08:00

Learn about synonyms - words that have the same or similar meaning.

Discourse Markers: Interjections

6m · Published 25 May 09:33

Do you know your ouch! from your ugh!? These words are called interjections.

Commonly misspelled words

6m · Published 18 May 10:06

Finn and Catherine talk through some of the complexities of English spelling.

6 Minute Vocabulary: Academic Vocabulary

6m · Published 19 Mar 10:55

Neil and Finn's top tips for dealing with specialist vocabulary

Learning English Vocabulary has 199 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 20:28:13. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on November 25th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 27th, 2024 03:10.