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Learning English Vocabulary

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 bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus

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6:05

Adjectives and adverbs

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2023/02/06

Fashionable? Fashionably? We teach you adjectives and adverbs.

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6:12

Suffixes

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2023/01/30

Finn and Alice look at a very important part of word building – suffixes.

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6:18

Academic Vocabulary

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2023/01/23

Do you have to write academic texts and essays? We give you some tips on how to do it.

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6:16

Talk like Shakespeare

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2023/01/16

Learn some idioms from 'the Bard' which are in common use today.

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6:11

More irregular verbs

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2023/01/09

Write, wrote, written. Speak, spoke, spoken - learn more about irregular verbs.

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6:11

Eponyms as nouns and verbs

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2022/12/30

To google, to hoover... Learn about words that have come from commercial products.

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6:11

Adjectives from names

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2022/12/26

We discuss a group of adjectives that are made from the names of famous people.

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6:19

Large numbers

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2022/12/19

How many stars are there in the universe? Learn how to say big numbers in English.

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6:20

Suffixes: -tian, -sion and -tion

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2022/12/12

Have we got your attention? Listen and learn how to use suffixes -tian, -sion and -tion.

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6:12

Synonyms

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2022/12/05

Learn about synonyms - words that have the same or similar meaning.

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6:10

Discourse Markers: Interjections

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2022/11/28

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 ·

2022/11/21

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

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6:11

Linking words

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2022/11/14

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 ·

2022/11/07

Disk or disc? Confused about which one to use? Finn and Catherine talk about spelling.

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6:18

Acronyms

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2022/10/31

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 ·

2022/10/24

A good way of building vocabulary in English is to learn words with opposite meanings.

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6:19

Suffixes: -ness and -ity

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2022/10/17

‘Happiness’ and 'responsibility'. Learn words with the suffixes -ness and -ity.

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6:19

Discourse markers for showing attitude

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2022/10/10

Fortunately, obviously, seriously, ideally. These words are useful. How do we use them?

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6:15

Suffixes: -ment, -ance, -ence

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2022/10/03

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

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6:19

Someone, nothing, anywhere

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2022/09/20

Learn about words like someone, nothing and anywhere in 6 minutes.

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