Learning English Vocabulary
BBC Radio
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
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Episodes
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5 snips
Nov 14, 2022 • 6min
Linking words
Listen to Angela talk about her lucky shark escape and learn some linking words.
Nov 7, 2022 • 6min
Words with more than one spelling
Disk or disc? Confused about which one to use? Finn and Catherine talk about spelling.
Oct 31, 2022 • 6min
Acronyms
Listen to Peter and Catherine talking about acronyms like NASA and FIFA in this podcast.
Oct 24, 2022 • 6min
Antonyms
A good way of building vocabulary in English is to learn words with opposite meanings.
Oct 17, 2022 • 6min
Suffixes: -ness and -ity
‘Happiness’ and 'responsibility'. Learn words with the suffixes -ness and -ity.
Oct 10, 2022 • 6min
Discourse markers for showing attitude
Fortunately, obviously, seriously, ideally. These words are useful. How do we use them?
Oct 3, 2022 • 6min
Suffixes: -ment, -ance, -ence
ExciteMENT, performANCE, differENCE - how suffixes turn verbs and adjectives into nouns.
Sep 20, 2022 • 6min
Someone, nothing, anywhere
Learn about words like someone, nothing and anywhere in 6 minutes.
Sep 12, 2022 • 6min
Irregular verbs
Choose, chose, chosen... We talk about verbs that don't follow the -ed pattern.
Sep 5, 2022 • 6min
Easily confused words
Boring or bored? Learn about words that look similar but have very different meaning.
