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New words

What do the words selfie, photobomb and trolling mean? Help us update your language!

• 6 mins

Male and female job words

We teach you job titles for men and women.

• 6 mins

Contractions

Learn how to use 'I've' and 'isn't' - your English will sound more natural.

• 6 mins

Strong adjectives

What word do you use when you want to say something is very good or very bad?

• 6 mins

Adjectives ending with -ic and -ical

'Classic' or 'classical'? Learn about adjectives ending in -ic and -ical.

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Multi-word verbs

Learn how to use multi-word verbs to make your English sound much more natural.

• 6 mins

Onomatopoeia

Learn about words that sound like the thing they describe.

• 6 mins

Silent letters

Silent letters are letters that we see in words, but don’t actually pronounce.

• 6 mins

Prefixes: 'Re-', 'pre-', and 'pro-'

Learn about words with the prefixes 're-', 'pre-' and 'pro-' in 6 Minute Vocabulary.

• 6 mins

Phrasal verbs and context

Learn phrasal verbs in sentences to help understand their meanings.

• 6 mins

How to pronounce words beginning with 'c'

Catherine cycled through the city centre! How do you pronounce all those words with 'c'?

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Business jargon

Do you 'think out of the box' or 'push the envelope' at work? Learn business jargon.

• 6 mins

British and American English

Hear about differences and similarities in vocabulary from both sides of the Atlantic.

• 6 mins

Pronouncing verbs and nouns

Learn how to pronounce verbs and nouns with Neil and Catherine.

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Words with double letters

We talk about spelling words with double letters, such as 'accommodation'.

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Hyphenation

Find out why we write some phrases with hyphens but not others.

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Time expressions

We look at time expressions with 'in', 'at' and 'on'.

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Uncountable nouns

Can you count knowledge, money or happiness? How to deal with uncountable nouns.

• 6 mins

Spoken short forms

Gonna, wanna, dunno, whatcha... We give you an introduction to short spoken forms.

• 6 mins

Ordinal numbers

What's the date today? Do you know how to say it? Listen to the programme to find out.

• 6 mins

Prefixes: dys- de- dis-

Do you suffer from DYSpepsia? Could a DEtox diet help? Neil and Finn talk about prefixes.

• 6 mins

Suffixes: -less and -free

Is this a smoke-free or a smokeless workplace? Learn the difference!

• 6 mins

Easily confused words

Boring or bored? Learn about words that look similar but have very different meaning.

• 6 mins

Irregular verbs

Choose, chose, chosen... We talk about verbs that don't follow the -ed pattern.

• 6 mins

Someone, nothing, anywhere

Learn about words like someone, nothing and anywhere in 6 minutes.

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Suffixes: -ment, -ance, -ence

ExciteMENT, performANCE, differENCE - how suffixes turn verbs and adjectives into nouns.

• 6 mins

Discourse markers for showing attitude

Fortunately, obviously, seriously, ideally. These words are useful. How do we use them?

• 6 mins

Suffixes: -ness and -ity

‘Happiness’ and 'responsibility'. Learn words with the suffixes -ness and -ity.

• 6 mins

Antonyms

A good way of building vocabulary in English is to learn words with opposite meanings.

• 6 mins

Acronyms

Listen to Peter and Catherine talking about acronyms like NASA and FIFA in this podcast.

• 6 mins