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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Adjective order
Mon 12 Oct 2020
This is a big, old, smelly dog! Learn which adjective has to come first.
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Contractions
Mon 5 Oct 2020
"I've run a marathon." Look at the shorter form 'I've'. Learn how to use contractions.
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Job suffixes
Mon 28 Sep 2020
What's the connection between a teacher, a driver and a presenter? We explain.
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Word stress
Mon 21 Sep 2020
How to pronounce the words 'photographer' and 'photograph'? Learn about word stress.
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Compound adjectives
Mon 14 Sep 2020
Learn how to use compound adjectives (e.g. low-fat yoghurt, high-quality carbohydrates).
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-ing and -ed adjectives
Mon 31 Aug 2020
Boring or bored? Interested or interesting? We'll tell you the right adjective to use.
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Binomials
Mon 24 Aug 2020
Learn how to use these short English phrases made of two words that go together.
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Chunks of language
Mon 17 Aug 2020
Find out how you can sound much more natural by learning and using chunks of language.
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Prefixes
Mon 10 Aug 2020
Have no fear... Finn and Alice are here and they'll teach you everything about prefixes!
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Adjectives and adverbs
Mon 3 Aug 2020
Fashionable? Fashionably? We teach you adjectives and adverbs.
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Academic Vocabulary
Mon 20 Jul 2020
Do you have to write academic texts and essays? Finn and Neil give you some tips.
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Talk like Shakespeare
Mon 13 Jul 2020
Learn some idioms from 'the Bard' which are in common use today.
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Irregular verbs 2
Mon 6 Jul 2020
Break, broke, broken... We look at verbs that don't behave themselves.
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Eponyms as nouns and verbs
Mon 29 Jun 2020
To google, to hoover... Learn about words that have come from commercial products.
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Adjectives from names
Mon 22 Jun 2020
Freudian, Dickensian, Orwellian... learn about adjectives that come from names.
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Large numbers
Mon 15 Jun 2020
How many stars are there in the universe? Learn how to say big numbers in English.
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Suffixes -sion -tion -tian
Mon 8 Jun 2020
"I have a confesSION: my ambiTION is to meet a MarTIAN!" - We teach you suffixes.
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Discourse Markers: Interjections
Mon 25 May 2020
Do you know your ouch! from your ugh!? These words are called interjections.
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Commonly misspelled words
Mon 18 May 2020
Finn and Catherine talk through some of the complexities of English spelling.
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6 Minute Vocabulary: Academic Vocabulary
Mon 19 Mar 2018
Neil and Finn's top tips for dealing with specialist vocabulary
