Learning English Vocabulary

‘Happiness’ and 'responsibility'. Learn words with the suffixes -ness and -ity.

Fortunately, obviously, seriously, ideally. These words are useful. How do we use them?

ExciteMENT, performANCE, differENCE - how suffixes turn verbs and adjectives into nouns.

Learn about words like someone, nothing and anywhere in 6 minutes.

Choose, chose, chosen... We talk about verbs that don't follow the -ed pattern.

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

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

Do you suffer from DYSpepsia? Could a DEtox diet help? Neil and Finn talk about prefixes.

What's the date today? Do you know how to say it? Listen to the programme to find out.

Gonna, wanna, dunno, whatcha... We give you an introduction to short spoken forms.

Can you count knowledge, money or happiness? How to deal with uncountable nouns.

We look at time expressions with 'in', 'at' and 'on'.

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

We talk about spelling words with double letters, such as 'accommodation'.

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

Hear about differences and similarities in vocabulary from both sides of the Atlantic.

Do you 'think out of the box' or 'push the envelope' at work? Learn business jargon.

Catherine cycled through the city centre! How do you pronounce all those words with 'c'?

Learn phrasal verbs in sentences to help understand their meanings.

Learn about words with the prefixes 're-', 'pre-' and 'pro-' in 6 Minute Vocabulary.

Silent letters are letters that we see in words, but don’t actually pronounce.

Learn about words that sound like the thing they describe.

Learn how to use multi-word verbs to make your English sound much more natural.

'Classic' or 'classical'? Learn about adjectives ending in -ic and -ical.

What word do you use when you want to say something is very good or very bad?

Learn how to use 'I've' and 'isn't' - your English will sound more natural.

We teach you job titles for men and women.

What do the words selfie, photobomb and trolling mean? Help us update your language!

Rainy, snowy, windy, sunny. Learn how to describe the weather.

Mail and male... Learn about words that sound the same but have different spellings.

Do you like ice cream? Do you use a keyboard? Words like are compound nouns.

What's the connection between a teacher, a driver and a presenter? We explain.

Explore the similarities and differences in words like 'big' and 'large'.

Do you know how to put adjectives in the right order? We can help.

To sound fluent and natural when you speak you might want to learn about contractions.

What's the connection between a teacher, a driver and a presenter? We explain.

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

Learn how to use compound adjectives (e.g. low-fat yoghurt, high-quality carbohydrates).

Finn and Catherine give you some tips on how to remember new words.

Boring or bored? Interested or interesting? We'll tell you the right adjective to use.

Learn how to use these short English phrases made of two words that go together.

Find out how you can sound much more natural by learning and using chunks of language.

Learn how to add prefixes to the beginning of some words to change their meanings.

Fashionable? Fashionably? Learn how to use adjectives and adverbs.

Finn and Alice look at a very important part of word building – suffixes.

Do you have to write academic texts and essays? Finn and Neil give you some tips.

Learn some idioms from 'the Bard' which are in common use today.

Break, broke, broken... We look at verbs that don't behave themselves.

To google, to hoover... Learn about words that have come from commercial products.

Freudian, Dickensian, Orwellian... learn about adjectives that come from names.