Learning English Vocabulary Podcast
Build your English vocabulary with these short programmes. Each episode explores a new topic to improve your English.
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Episodes to download
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Irregular verbs
Mon 10 May 2021
Choose, chose, chosen... We talk about verbs that don't follow the -ed pattern.
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Reporting verbs
Mon 3 May 2021
Learn about verbs that we use when we talk about what someone else has said.
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False friends
Mon 26 Apr 2021
Embarrassed - or pregnant? Words you think you know but mean something else in English.
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Words with 'ough'
Mon 19 Apr 2021
Cough, thought, enough, although: Learn how to pronounce words with 'ough'.
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Easily confused words
Mon 12 Apr 2021
Boring or bored? Learn about words that look similar but have very different meaning.
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Suffixes: -less and -free
Mon 5 Apr 2021
Is this a smoke-free or a smokeless workplace? Learn the difference!
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Prefixes: dys- de- dis-
Mon 29 Mar 2021
Do you suffer from DYSpepsia? Could a DEtox diet help? Neil and Finn talk about prefixes.
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Ordinal numbers
Mon 22 Mar 2021
What's the date today? Do you know how to say it? Listen to the programme to find out.
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Uncountable nouns
Mon 8 Mar 2021
Can you count knowledge, money or happiness? How to deal with uncountable nouns.
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Time expressions
Mon 1 Mar 2021
Neil and Catherine look at time expressions with 'in', 'at' and 'on'.
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Hyphenation
Mon 22 Feb 2021
Learn how to use hyphens: "They did a ten-foot dive into the swimming pool."
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Words with double letters
Mon 15 Feb 2021
Catherine and Neil talk about spelling words with double letters, such as 'accommodation'.
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Pronouncing verbs and nouns
Mon 8 Feb 2021
'Increase' can be a noun or a verb and they aren't pronounced the same way...
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British and American English
Mon 1 Feb 2021
Hear about differences and similarities in vocabulary from both sides of the Atlantic.
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Business jargon
Mon 25 Jan 2021
Can you think out of the box or take the helicopter view at work? Learn business jargon.
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Pronouncing words that start with ‘c’
Mon 18 Jan 2021
Listen out for words that begin with the /s/ sound but start with the letter 'c'.
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Phrasal verbs and context
Mon 11 Jan 2021
A guide to multi-word verbs and prepositions that can change the meaning of phrasal verbs.
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Prefixes re-, pre- and pro-
Mon 4 Jan 2021
'REcycle', 'PREpacked', 'PROactive' - we talk about prefixes in 6 Minute Vocabulary.
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Silent letters
Mon 28 Dec 2020
We talk about letters in English that we see in words but don’t actually pronounce.
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Multi-word verbs
Mon 14 Dec 2020
Do you ever 'meet up with' your friend in the park? We talk about multi-word verbs.
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Adjectives ending with -ic and -ical
Mon 7 Dec 2020
'Classic' or 'classical'? Learn about adjectives ending in -ic and -ical.
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Strong adjectives
Mon 30 Nov 2020
'Terrified', 'fantastic', 'amazing' - learn how to use strong adjectives.
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Male and female job words
Mon 23 Nov 2020
Policeman / policewoman, actor / actress - learn about job titles and gender.
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New words
Mon 16 Nov 2020
'Selfie', 'photobomb', 'trolling'. Learn what these new words mean and how they are made.
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Weather words
Mon 9 Nov 2020
The British love to talk about weather! Learn some useful vocabulary about it here.
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Homophones
Mon 2 Nov 2020
Mail and male... Learn about words that sound the same but have different spellings.
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Compound nouns
Mon 26 Oct 2020
Ice cream, popcorn... Learn about nouns made up of a combination of two words.
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Similar words
Mon 19 Oct 2020
We talk about words like 'big' and 'large' and explore the similarities between them.