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

Acronyms

6m · Published 25 Dec 10:00

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

Antonyms

6m · Published 19 Dec 08:39

Finn and Catherine discuss antonyms in 6 minute Vocabulary.

Suffixes: -ness & -ity

6m · Published 11 Dec 10:14

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

Discourse markers: showing attitude

6m · Published 05 Dec 14:38

fortunately, obviously, seriously, ideally.

Suffixes: -ment, -ance, -ence

6m · Published 27 Nov 13:12

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

Someone, somewhere, anywhere...

6m · Published 20 Nov 08:39

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

Irregular verbs

6m · Published 13 Nov 11:00

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

Reporting verbs

6m · Published 07 Nov 08:21

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

False friends

6m · Published 30 Oct 10:18

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

Words with 'ough'

6m · Published 23 Oct 09:24

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

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.