Learning English Vocabulary Podcast
Build your English vocabulary with these short programmes. Each episode explores a new topic to improve your English.
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Episodes to download
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Adjectives and adverbs
Mon 22 Apr 2024
Fashionable? Fashionably? We teach you adjectives and adverbs.
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Academic vocabulary
Mon 1 Apr 2024
Learn how to cope if you are studying at an English-speaking university.
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Phrases from Shakespeare
Mon 25 Mar 2024
We learn phrases from Shakespeare that are still used today.
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Irregular verbs
Mon 18 Mar 2024
Some irregular verbs can be grouped into patterns to help remember the different forms.
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Eponyms as nouns and verbs
Mon 11 Mar 2024
What does the word Hoover have in common with the word Google?
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Adjectives from names
Mon 4 Mar 2024
We discuss a group of adjectives that are made from the names of famous people.
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Large numbers
Mon 26 Feb 2024
How many stars are there in the universe? Learn how to say big numbers in English.
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Suffixes: -tian, -sion and -tion
Mon 19 Feb 2024
Have we got your attention? Listen and learn how to use suffixes -tian, -sion and -tion.
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Discourse Markers: Interjections
Mon 5 Feb 2024
Do you know your ouch! from your ugh!? These words are called interjections.
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Commonly misspelled words
Mon 29 Jan 2024
Weird or wierd? English spelling is fascinating 鈥� but it's not always straightforward!
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Linking words
Tue 9 Jan 2024
Listen to Angela talk about her lucky shark escape and learn some linking words.
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Words with more than one spelling
New Year's Day 2024
Are you unsure whether it鈥檚 disc or disk, sympathise or sympathize, learnt or learned?
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Acronyms
Christmas Day 2023
Listen to Peter and Catherine talking about acronyms like NASA and FIFA in this podcast.
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Suffixes: -ness & -ity
Mon 11 Dec 2023
Listen to Neil and Catherine talk about words with the suffixes -ness and -ity.
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Suffixes: -ment, -ance, -ence
Mon 27 Nov 2023
ExciteMENT, performANCE, differENCE - how suffixes turn verbs and adjectives into nouns.
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Someone, somewhere, anywhere...
Mon 20 Nov 2023
Learn how to use these very useful pronouns with 'some' and 'any'.
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Irregular verbs
Mon 13 Nov 2023
Choose, chose, chosen... We talk about verbs that don't follow the -ed pattern.
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Reporting verbs
Tue 7 Nov 2023
Learn about verbs that we use when we talk about what someone else has said.
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False friends
Mon 30 Oct 2023
Embarrassed - or pregnant? Words you think you know but mean something else in English.
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Words with 'ough'
Mon 23 Oct 2023
Cough, thought, enough, although: Learn how to pronounce words with 'ough'.
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Easily confused words
Mon 16 Oct 2023
Boring or bored? Learn about words that look similar but have very different meaning.
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Suffixes: -less and -free
Mon 9 Oct 2023
Is this a smoke-free or a smokeless workplace? Learn the difference!
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Prefixes de, dis, dys
Mon 2 Oct 2023
Do you suffer from dyspepsia? Could a detox diet help? Learn about prefixes.
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Short spoken forms
Mon 18 Sep 2023
Gonna, wanna, dunno, whatcha鈥� are these really English words? Who uses them and why?
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