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Word stress

Do you know how to pronounce the words photographer and photograph? We can help you.

• 6 mins

Job suffixes

What's the connection between a teacher, a driver or a presenter?

• 6 mins

Contractions

Finn and Feifei help you learn this important part of speaking and writing, in English.

• 6 mins

Adjective order

We explain the order you put adjectives in when describing a dog!

• 6 mins

Compound nouns

Ice cream, popcorn... Learn about nouns made up of a combination of two words.

• 6 mins

Homophones

Learn about words that sound the same but have different meanings

• 6 mins

Weather words

British people love to talk about weather! Learn some useful vocabulary about it here.

• 5 mins

New words

Rob and Catherine are here to help you update your language!

• 6 mins

Male and female job words

How words change depending on whether a man or a woman is doing the job.

• 6 mins

Strong adjectives

Listen to our fantastic, wonderful programme about strong adjectives.

• 6 mins

Adjectives ending with -ic and -ical

We explain how some adjectives end in either -ic or -ical, depending on their meaning.

• 6 mins

Multi-word verbs

Do you ever 'meet up with' your friend in the park? We talk about multi-word verbs.

• 6 mins

Onomatopoeia

Learn about words that sound like the thing they describe.

• 6 mins

Silent letters

How do you pronounce the words night and knight?

• 6 mins

re, pre and pro

Do you recycle your rubbish? Do you buy prepacked food? Are you proactive?

• 6 mins

Phrasal verbs and context

When talking about moving in, moving out and moving on, what do we mean? We explain.

• 6 mins

How to pronounce words that start with 'c'.

'c' or 's'? Learn how to spell words that begin with a /s/ sound.

• 6 mins

Business jargon

Can you think out of the box or take the helicopter view at work? Learn business jargon.

• 6 mins

British and American English

Catherine and Doug discuss British and American English

• 6 mins

Pronouncing verbs and nouns

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

• 6 mins

Words with double letters

Catherine and Finn talk about spelling words with double letters in 6 Minute Vocabulary.

• 6 mins

Hyphenation

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

• 6 mins

Time expression with in, on and at

Learn how to use time expression with the preposition in, on and at

• 6 mins

Uncountable nouns

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

• 6 mins

Short spoken forms

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

• 6 mins

Ordinal numbers

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

• 6 mins

Prefixes de, dis, dys

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

• 6 mins

Suffixes: -less and -free

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

• 6 mins

Easily confused words

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

• 6 mins

Words with 'ough'

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

• 6 mins