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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Commonly misspelled words
Mon 19 Jul 2021
Finn and Catherine talk through some of the complexities of English spelling.
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Linking words
Mon 12 Jul 2021
Rob and Catherine talk about words and short phrases used to connect ideas.
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Words with more than one spelling
Mon 5 Jul 2021
Disk or disc? Confused about which one to use? Finn and Catherine talk about spelling.
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Antonyms
Mon 21 Jun 2021
A good way of building vocabulary in English is to learn words with opposite meanings.
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Discourse markers: Attitude
Mon 31 May 2021
Words and phrases we use to express our attitude to what we’re saying or writing.
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Suffixes: -ment, -ance, -ence
Mon 24 May 2021
ExciteMENT, performANCE, differENCE - how suffixes turn verbs and adjectives into nouns.
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Someone, somewhere, anywhere...
Mon 17 May 2021
Learn how to use these very useful pronouns with 'some' and 'any'.
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Irregular verbs
Mon 10 May 2021
Choose, chose, chosen... We talk about verbs that don't follow the -ed pattern.
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Reporting verbs
Mon 3 May 2021
Learn about verbs that we use when we talk about what someone else has said.
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False friends
Mon 26 Apr 2021
Embarrassed - or pregnant? Words you think you know but mean something else in English.
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Words with 'ough'
Mon 19 Apr 2021
Cough, thought, enough, although: Learn how to pronounce words with 'ough'.
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Easily confused words
Mon 12 Apr 2021
Boring or bored? Learn about words that look similar but have very different meaning.
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Suffixes: -less and -free
Mon 5 Apr 2021
Is this a smoke-free or a smokeless workplace? Learn the difference!
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Prefixes: dys- de- dis-
Mon 29 Mar 2021
Do you suffer from DYSpepsia? Could a DEtox diet help? Neil and Finn talk about prefixes.
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Ordinal numbers
Mon 22 Mar 2021
What's the date today? Do you know how to say it? Listen to the programme to find out.
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Uncountable nouns
Mon 8 Mar 2021
Can you count knowledge, money or happiness? How to deal with uncountable nouns.
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Time expressions
Mon 1 Mar 2021
Neil and Catherine look at time expressions with 'in', 'at' and 'on'.
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Hyphenation
Mon 22 Feb 2021
Learn how to use hyphens: "They did a ten-foot dive into the swimming pool."
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Words with double letters
Mon 15 Feb 2021
Catherine and Neil talk about spelling words with double letters, such as 'accommodation'.
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Pronouncing verbs and nouns
Mon 8 Feb 2021
'Increase' can be a noun or a verb and they aren't pronounced the same way...
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British and American English
Mon 1 Feb 2021
Hear about differences and similarities in vocabulary from both sides of the Atlantic.
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Business jargon
Mon 25 Jan 2021
Can you think out of the box or take the helicopter view at work? Learn business jargon.
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Pronouncing words that start with ‘c’
Mon 18 Jan 2021
Listen out for words that begin with the /s/ sound but start with the letter 'c'.
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Phrasal verbs and context
Mon 11 Jan 2021
A guide to multi-word verbs and prepositions that can change the meaning of phrasal verbs.
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Prefixes re-, pre- and pro-
Mon 4 Jan 2021
'REcycle', 'PREpacked', 'PROactive' - we talk about prefixes in 6 Minute Vocabulary.
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Silent letters
Mon 28 Dec 2020
We talk about letters in English that we see in words but don’t actually pronounce.
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