Learning English Vocabulary
BBC Radio
Build your English vocabulary with these short programmes. Each episode explores a new topic to improve your English.Find more at bbclearningenglish.comFollow us at
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Oct 24, 2022 • 6min
Antonyms
A good way of building vocabulary in English is to learn words with opposite meanings.
Oct 17, 2022 • 6min
Suffixes: -ness and -ity
‘Happiness’ and 'responsibility'. Learn words with the suffixes -ness and -ity.
Oct 10, 2022 • 6min
Discourse markers for showing attitude
Fortunately, obviously, seriously, ideally. These words are useful. How do we use them?
Oct 3, 2022 • 6min
Suffixes: -ment, -ance, -ence
ExciteMENT, performANCE, differENCE - how suffixes turn verbs and adjectives into nouns.
Sep 20, 2022 • 6min
Someone, nothing, anywhere
Learn about words like someone, nothing and anywhere in 6 minutes.
Sep 12, 2022 • 6min
Irregular verbs
Choose, chose, chosen... We talk about verbs that don't follow the -ed pattern.
Sep 5, 2022 • 6min
Easily confused words
Boring or bored? Learn about words that look similar but have very different meaning.
Aug 26, 2022 • 6min
Suffixes: -less and -free
Is this a smoke-free or a smokeless workplace? Learn the difference!
Aug 15, 2022 • 6min
Prefixes: dys- de- dis-
Do you suffer from DYSpepsia? Could a DEtox diet help? Neil and Finn talk about prefixes.
Aug 8, 2022 • 6min
Ordinal numbers
What's the date today? Do you know how to say it? Listen to the programme to find out.
