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
Mentioned books
Apr 26, 2021 • 6min
False friends
Embarrassed - or pregnant? Words you think you know but mean something else in English.
Apr 19, 2021 • 6min
Words with 'ough'
Cough, thought, enough, although: Learn how to pronounce words with 'ough'.
Apr 13, 2021 • 6min
Easily confused words
Boring or bored? Learn about words that look similar but have very different meaning.
Apr 5, 2021 • 6min
Suffixes: -less and -free
Is this a smoke-free or a smokeless workplace? Learn the difference!
Mar 29, 2021 • 6min
Prefixes: dys- de- dis-
Do you suffer from DYSpepsia? Could a DEtox diet help? Neil and Finn talk about prefixes.
Mar 22, 2021 • 6min
Ordinal numbers
What's the date today? Do you know how to say it? Listen to the programme to find out.
Mar 15, 2021 • 6min
Short spoken forms
Learn how these words are used: gonna, wanna, dunno, whatcha.
Mar 8, 2021 • 6min
Uncountable nouns
Can you count knowledge, money or happiness? How to deal with uncountable nouns.
Mar 1, 2021 • 6min
Time expressions
Neil and Catherine look at time expressions with 'in', 'at' and 'on'.
Feb 22, 2021 • 6min
Hyphenation
Learn how to use hyphens: "They did a ten-foot dive into the swimming pool."
