Learning English Vocabulary Episodes Episode guide
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6Min Vocab: Words that start with 'c'
Seven sisters cycled through the city centre wearing smart suits and soft socks.
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6Min Vocab: Uncountable nouns
What is more important in life: knowledge, money or happiness? And what do those three...
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6Min Vocab: Suffixes -free and -less
Carefree or careless? The suffixes -free and -less
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6Min Vocab: Spoken short forms
Gonna, wanna, dunno, whatcha... are these really English words? Who uses them and why?
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6Min Vocab: Pronouncing verbs and nouns
So you want a salary increase? But do you pronounce 'increase' with the stress on the...
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6Min Vocab: Prefixes de-, dys-, and dis
Don't be discouraged - expand your vocabulary with prefixes
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6Min Vocab: Ordinal numbers
What's the date today? And do you know how to say it? Find out about ordinal numbers here
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6Min Vocab: Onomatopoeia
Catherine and Rob talk about words that sound like the thing they mean.
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6Min Vocab: In, at, on with time expressions
Neil is going to a wedding on Saturday, but Catherine likes to relax at the weekend.
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6Min Vocab: Hyphenation
My sixty-year-old mother-in-law did a ten-foot dive into the swimming pool and was...
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6Min Vocab: Business jargon
Are you able to think out of the box or take the helicopter view at work? How good are...
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6Min Vocab: British and American English
What's the difference between a mobile phone and a cellphone? Not much, except the is...
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6 Minute Vocabulary: Academic Vocabulary
Neil and Finn's top tips for dealing with specialist vocabulary
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'ing' and 'ed' adjectives
They're easy to confuse, so when should we use them?
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'In', 'at', 'on' with time expressions
At the weekend, in spring, on Saturday - a lesson about prepositions.
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-ing and -ed adjectives
Interested or interesting? Which adjective do you use? We discuss -ing and -ed adjectives
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-ing and -ed adjectives
Interested or interesting? Which adjective do you use? We discuss -ing and -ed adjectives
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-ing and -ed adjectives
Boring or bored? Interested or interesting? We'll tell you the right adjective to use.
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-ing and -ed adjectives
Boring or bored? Interested or interesting? We'll tell you the right adjective to use.
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-ing and -ed adjectives
Both types help us to talk about our feelings. But they're easy to confuse.
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-ing and -ed adjectives
They're easy to confuse - so when should we use them?
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-ic and -ical
Some adjectives can end in either -ic or -ical, depending on their meaning
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-ic and -ical
Some adjectives can end in either -ic or -ical, depending on their meaning
