All episodes of 6 Minute Vocabulary

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Fashionable? Fashionably? We teach you adjectives and adverbs.

Published 04/22/24

Finn and Alice look at a very important part of word building – suffixes. FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus LIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️ 6 Minute English ✔️ 6 Minute Grammar ✔️ News Review They're all available by searching in your podcast app.

Published 04/15/24

Academic vocabulary

Learn how to cope if you are studying at an English-speaking university.

Published 04/01/24

Phrases from Shakespeare

We learn phrases from Shakespeare that are still used today.

Published 03/25/24

Irregular verbs

Some irregular verbs can be grouped into patterns to help remember the different forms.

Published 03/18/24

Eponyms as nouns and verbs

What does the word Hoover have in common with the word Google?

Published 03/11/24

Adjectives from names

We discuss a group of adjectives that are made from the names of famous people.

Published 03/04/24

Large numbers

How many stars are there in the universe? Learn how to say big numbers in English.

Published 02/26/24

Suffixes: -tian, -sion and -tion

Have we got your attention? Listen and learn how to use suffixes -tian, -sion and -tion.

Published 02/19/24

Synonyms

Learn about words that have the same or similar meanings

Published 02/12/24

Discourse Markers: Interjections

Do you know your ouch! from your ugh!? These words are called interjections.

Published 02/05/24

Commonly misspelled words

Weird or wierd? English spelling is fascinating – but it's not always straightforward!

Published 01/29/24

Linking words

Listen to Angela talk about her lucky shark escape and learn some linking words.

Published 01/09/24

Words with more than one spelling

Are you unsure whether it’s disc or disk, sympathise or sympathize, learnt or learned?

Published 01/01/24

Acronyms

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

Published 12/25/23

Antonyms

Finn and Catherine discuss antonyms in 6 minute Vocabulary.

Published 12/19/23

Suffixes: -ness & -ity

Listen to Neil and Catherine talk about words with the suffixes -ness and -ity.

Published 12/11/23

Discourse markers: showing attitude

fortunately, obviously, seriously, ideally.

Published 12/05/23

Suffixes: -ment, -ance, -ence

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

Published 11/27/23

Someone, somewhere, anywhere...

Learn how to use these very useful pronouns with 'some' and 'any'.

Published 11/20/23

Irregular verbs

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

Published 11/13/23

Reporting verbs

Learn about verbs that we use when we talk about what someone else has said.

Published 11/07/23

False friends

Embarrassed - or pregnant? Words you think you know but mean something else in English.

Published 10/30/23

Words with 'ough'

Cough, thought, enough, although: Learn how to pronounce words with 'ough'.

Published 10/23/23