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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Episodes
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Nov 1, 2021 • 6min
Binomials
Learn how to use these short English phrases made of two words that go together.
Oct 25, 2021 • 6min
Chunks of language
Find out how you can sound much more natural by learning and using chunks of language.
Oct 18, 2021 • 6min
Prefixes
Learn how to add prefixes to the beginning of some words to change their meanings.
Oct 11, 2021 • 6min
Adjectives and adverbs
Fashionable? Fashionably? Learn how to use adjectives and adverbs.
Oct 4, 2021 • 6min
Suffixes
Finn and Alice look at a very important part of word building – suffixes.
Sep 27, 2021 • 6min
Academic Vocabulary
Do you have to write academic texts and essays? Finn and Neil give you some tips.
Sep 20, 2021 • 6min
Talk like Shakespeare
Learn some idioms from 'the Bard' which are in common use today.
Sep 13, 2021 • 6min
Irregular verbs 2
Break, broke, broken... We look at verbs that don't behave themselves.
Sep 6, 2021 • 6min
Eponyms as nouns and verbs
To google, to hoover... Learn about words that have come from commercial products.
Aug 30, 2021 • 6min
Adjectives from names
Freudian, Dickensian, Orwellian... learn about adjectives that come from names.
