6 Minute Vocabulary
Build your English vocabulary in six minutes.
BBC
Show overview
6 Minute Vocabulary has published 38 episodes during 2026. That works out to roughly 2 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a several-times-a-week cadence.
Episodes typically run under ten minutes — most land between 1 min and 6 min — with run-times ranging widely across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Education show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 1 months ago, with 38 episodes already out so far this year. Published by BBC.
From the publisher
Build your English vocabulary in six minutes. Every Monday join two of our presenters and hear about different ways to develop your vocabulary knowledge and skills. Our presenters include Finn, Emma, Rob, Neil, Sophie and Alice. They are there to teach you new vocabulary and to test your language knowledge and they'll do it all in just six minutes.
Latest Episodes
View all 38 episodes-ing and -ed adjectives
English in a Minute: Phrases with 'change'
Binomials
English in a Minute: Phrases with 'leave'
Useful chunks of language
English in a Minute: Phrases with heart
Words with 'ough'
English in a Minute: Phrases with 'life'
Easily confused words
English in a Minute: Phrases with 'day'
Suffixes: -less and -free
English in a Minute: Phrases with 'look'
English in a Minute: Phrases with 'end'
English in a Minute: Phrases with fire Learning English Vocabulary
English in a Minute: Phrases with hat
Prefixes: dys- de- dis-
English in a Minute: Phrases with 'money'
Ordinal numbers
English in a Minute: Phrases with 'thing'
What's the next big thing, and what's a thing of the past? Learn these 'thing' phrases and more here. TRANSCRIPT Find a free transcript for this episode and more programmes to help you with your English at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/s5english_in_a_minute FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus LIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️ Learning Easy English ✔️ Learning English from the News ✔️ 6 Minute English They're all available by searching in your podcast app.
Short spoken forms
Gonna, wanna, dunno, whatcha… are these really English words? Who uses them and why? FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER: ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newsletters LIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️ Learning English for Work ✔️ Learning English from the News ✔️ Learning English Stories They're all available by searching in your podcast app.