Show overview
Learning English Vocabulary has been publishing since 2018, and across the 8 years since has built a catalogue of 407 episodes. That works out to roughly 35 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly 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 weeks ago, with 43 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2025, with 102 episodes published. Published by BBC.
From the publisher
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
Latest Episodes
View all 407 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_minuteFIND 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 EnglishThey'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/learningenglishFollow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followusSUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER: ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newslettersLIKE PODCASTS?Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️ Learning English for Work ✔️ Learning English from the News ✔️ Learning English StoriesThey're all available by searching in your podcast app.