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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Apr 5, 2021 • 6min
Suffixes: -less and -free
Is this a smoke-free or a smokeless workplace? Learn the difference!
Mar 29, 2021 • 6min
Prefixes: dys- de- dis-
Do you suffer from DYSpepsia? Could a DEtox diet help? Neil and Finn talk about prefixes.
Mar 22, 2021 • 6min
Ordinal numbers
What's the date today? Do you know how to say it? Listen to the programme to find out.
Mar 15, 2021 • 6min
Short spoken forms
Learn how these words are used: gonna, wanna, dunno, whatcha.
Mar 8, 2021 • 6min
Uncountable nouns
Can you count knowledge, money or happiness? How to deal with uncountable nouns.
Mar 1, 2021 • 6min
Time expressions
Neil and Catherine look at time expressions with 'in', 'at' and 'on'.
Feb 22, 2021 • 6min
Hyphenation
Learn how to use hyphens: "They did a ten-foot dive into the swimming pool."
Feb 15, 2021 • 6min
Words with double letters
Catherine and Neil talk about spelling words with double letters, such as 'accommodation'.
Feb 8, 2021 • 6min
Pronouncing verbs and nouns
'Increase' can be a noun or a verb and they aren't pronounced the same way...
Feb 1, 2021 • 6min
British and American English
Hear about differences and similarities in vocabulary from both sides of the Atlantic.
