Learning English Vocabulary

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.

Have no fear... Finn and Alice are here and they'll teach you everything about prefixes!

Fashionable? Fashionably? We teach you 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.

How many stars are there in the universe? Learn how to say big numbers in English.

"I have a confesSION: my ambiTION is to meet a MarTIAN!" - We teach you suffixes.

Learn about synonyms - words that have the same or similar meaning.

Do you know your ouch! from your ugh!? These words are called interjections.

Finn and Catherine talk through some of the complexities of English spelling.

Neil and Finn's top tips for dealing with specialist vocabulary