Learning English Vocabulary Podcast
Build your English vocabulary with these short programmes. Each week we explore a new topic to improve your English vocabulary.
Build your English vocabulary with these short programmes.
Each week we explore a new topic to improve your English vocabulary. Learn words for the weather, how to talk about people’s jobs, adjective order, and so much more.
Plus, in our English in a Minute episodes, give your vocabulary a boost in under a minute.
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Episodes to download
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Contractions
Mon 28 Mar 2022
Learn how to use 'I've' and 'isn't' - your English will sound more natural.
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New words
Mon 14 Mar 2022
What do the words selfie, photobomb and trolling mean? Help us update your language!
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Homophones
Mon 31 Jan 2022
Mail and male... Learn about words that sound the same but have different spellings.
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Compound nouns
Mon 24 Jan 2022
Do you like ice cream? Do you use a keyboard? Words like are compound nouns.
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Job suffixes
Mon 17 Jan 2022
What's the connection between a teacher, a driver and a presenter? We explain.
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Similar words
Mon 10 Jan 2022
Explore the similarities and differences in words like 'big' and 'large'.
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Contractions
Mon 27 Dec 2021
To sound fluent and natural when you speak you might want to learn about contractions.
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Job suffixes
Mon 20 Dec 2021
What's the connection between a teacher, a driver and a presenter? We explain.
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Word stress
Mon 13 Dec 2021
Do you know how to pronounce the words photographer and photograph? We can help you.
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Compound adjectives
Mon 6 Dec 2021
Learn how to use compound adjectives (e.g. low-fat yoghurt, high-quality carbohydrates).
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-ing and -ed adjectives
Mon 8 Nov 2021
Boring or bored? Interested or interesting? We'll tell you the right adjective to use.
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Binomials
Mon 1 Nov 2021
Learn how to use these short English phrases made of two words that go together.
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Chunks of language
Mon 25 Oct 2021
Find out how you can sound much more natural by learning and using chunks of language.
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Prefixes
Mon 18 Oct 2021
Learn how to add prefixes to the beginning of some words to change their meanings.
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Adjectives and adverbs
Mon 11 Oct 2021
Fashionable? Fashionably? Learn how to use adjectives and adverbs.
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Academic Vocabulary
Mon 27 Sep 2021
Do you have to write academic texts and essays? Finn and Neil give you some tips.
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Talk like Shakespeare
Mon 20 Sep 2021
Learn some idioms from 'the Bard' which are in common use today.
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Irregular verbs 2
Mon 13 Sep 2021
Break, broke, broken... We look at verbs that don't behave themselves.
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Eponyms as nouns and verbs
Mon 6 Sep 2021
To google, to hoover... Learn about words that have come from commercial products.
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Adjectives from names
Mon 30 Aug 2021
Freudian, Dickensian, Orwellian... learn about adjectives that come from names.
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Large numbers
Mon 23 Aug 2021
How many stars are there in the universe? Learn how to say big numbers in English.
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Suffixes -sion -tion -tian
Mon 16 Aug 2021
"I have a confession to make. My ambition is to meet a Martian!" - We teach you suffixes.
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Discourse Markers: Interjections
Mon 26 Jul 2021
Do you know your ouch! from your ugh!? These words are called interjections.
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Commonly misspelled words
Mon 19 Jul 2021
Finn and Catherine talk through some of the complexities of English spelling.
