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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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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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6:07

Irregular verbs

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2022/09/12

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

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6:19

Easily confused words

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2022/09/05

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 ·

2022/08/26

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

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6:19

Prefixes: dys- de- dis-

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2022/08/15

Do you suffer from DYSpepsia? Could a DEtox diet help? Neil and Finn talk about prefixes.

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6:21

Ordinal numbers

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2022/08/08

What's the date today? Do you know how to say it? Listen to the programme to find out.

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6:07

Spoken short forms

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2022/08/01

Gonna, wanna, dunno, whatcha... We give you an introduction to short spoken forms.

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6:21

Uncountable nouns

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2022/07/25

Can you count knowledge, money or happiness? How to deal with uncountable nouns.

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6:21

Time expressions

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2022/07/18

We look at time expressions with 'in', 'at' and 'on'.

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6:18

Hyphenation

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2022/07/11

Find out why we write some phrases with hyphens but not others.

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6:10

Words with double letters

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2022/07/04

We talk about spelling words with double letters, such as 'accommodation'.

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6:13

Pronouncing verbs and nouns

Learning English Vocabulary ·

2022/06/27

Learn how to pronounce verbs and nouns with Neil and Catherine.

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