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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Aug 26, 2022 • 6min
Suffixes: -less and -free
Is this a smoke-free or a smokeless workplace? Learn the difference!
Aug 15, 2022 • 6min
Prefixes: dys- de- dis-
Do you suffer from DYSpepsia? Could a DEtox diet help? Neil and Finn talk about prefixes.
Aug 8, 2022 • 6min
Ordinal numbers
What's the date today? Do you know how to say it? Listen to the programme to find out.
Aug 1, 2022 • 6min
Spoken short forms
Gonna, wanna, dunno, whatcha... We give you an introduction to short spoken forms.
Jul 25, 2022 • 6min
Uncountable nouns
Can you count knowledge, money or happiness? How to deal with uncountable nouns.
Jul 18, 2022 • 6min
Time expressions
We look at time expressions with 'in', 'at' and 'on'.
Jul 11, 2022 • 6min
Hyphenation
Find out why we write some phrases with hyphens but not others.
Jul 4, 2022 • 6min
Words with double letters
We talk about spelling words with double letters, such as 'accommodation'.
Jun 27, 2022 • 6min
Pronouncing verbs and nouns
Learn how to pronounce verbs and nouns with Neil and Catherine.
Jun 20, 2022 • 6min
British and American English
Hear about differences and similarities in vocabulary from both sides of the Atlantic.
