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Learning 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. Find more at bbclearningenglish.com Follow us at bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus

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6:34

Discourse Markers: Interjections

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2024/02/05

Do you know your ouch! from your ugh!? These words are called interjections.

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5:58

Commonly misspelled words

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2024/01/29

Weird or wierd? English spelling is fascinating – but it's not always straightforward!

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6:11

Linking words

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2024/01/09

Listen to Angela talk about her lucky shark escape and learn some linking words.

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6:21

Words with more than one spelling

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2024/01/01

Are you unsure whether it’s disc or disk, sympathise or sympathize, learnt or learned?

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6:18

Acronyms

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2023/12/25

Listen to Peter and Catherine talking about acronyms like NASA and FIFA in this podcast.

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6:19

Antonyms

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2023/12/19

Finn and Catherine discuss antonyms in 6 minute Vocabulary.

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6:19

Suffixes: -ness & -ity

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2023/12/11

Listen to Neil and Catherine talk about words with the suffixes -ness and -ity.

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6:19

Discourse markers: showing attitude

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2023/12/05

fortunately, obviously, seriously, ideally.

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6:15

Suffixes: -ment, -ance, -ence

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2023/11/27

ExciteMENT, performANCE, differENCE - how suffixes turn verbs and adjectives into nouns.

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6:19

Someone, somewhere, anywhere...

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2023/11/20

Learn how to use these very useful pronouns with 'some' and 'any'.

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6:07

Irregular verbs

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2023/11/13

Choose, chose, chosen... We talk about verbs that don't follow the -ed pattern.

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6:20

Reporting verbs

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2023/11/07

Learn about verbs that we use when we talk about what someone else has said.

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6:13

False friends

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2023/10/30

Embarrassed - or pregnant? Words you think you know but mean something else in English.

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6:19

Words with 'ough'

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2023/10/23

Cough, thought, enough, although: Learn how to pronounce words with 'ough'.

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6:19

Easily confused words

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2023/10/16

Boring or bored? Learn about words that look similar but have very different meaning.

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6:19

Suffixes: -less and -free

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2023/10/09

Is this a smoke-free or a smokeless workplace? Learn the difference!

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6:19

Prefixes de, dis, dys

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2023/10/02

Do you suffer from dyspepsia? Could a detox diet help? Learn about prefixes.

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6:21

Ordinal numbers

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2023/09/25

What's the date today? And do you know how to say it?

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6:07

Short spoken forms

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2023/09/18

Gonna, wanna, dunno, whatcha… are these really English words? Who uses them and why?

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6:21

Uncountable nouns

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2023/09/11

What is more important in life: knowledge, money or happiness?

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