All episodes of 6 Minute Vocabulary

6 Minute Vocabulary

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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

Easily confused words

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

Published 10/16/23

Suffixes: -less and -free

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

Published 10/09/23

Prefixes de, dis, dys

Do you suffer from dyspepsia? Could a detox diet help? Learn about prefixes.

Published 10/02/23

Ordinal numbers

What's the date today? And do you know how to say it?

Published 09/25/23

Short spoken forms

Gonna, wanna, dunno, whatcha… are these really English words? Who uses them and why?

Published 09/18/23

Uncountable nouns

What is more important in life: knowledge, money or happiness?

Published 09/11/23

Time expression with in, on and at

Learn how to use time expression with the preposition in, on and at

Published 09/04/23

Hyphenation

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

Published 08/25/23

Words with double letters

Catherine and Finn talk about spelling words with double letters in 6 Minute Vocabulary.

Published 08/21/23

Pronouncing verbs and nouns

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

Published 08/14/23

British and American English

Catherine and Doug discuss British and American English

Published 08/08/23

Business jargon

Can you think out of the box or take the helicopter view at work? Learn business jargon.

Published 07/31/23

How to pronounce words that start with 'c'.

'c' or 's'? Learn how to spell words that begin with a /s/ sound.

Published 07/24/23

Phrasal verbs and context

When talking about moving in, moving out and moving on, what do we mean? We explain.

Published 07/17/23

re, pre and pro

Do you recycle your rubbish? Do you buy prepacked food? Are you proactive?

Published 07/10/23

Silent letters

How do you pronounce the words night and knight?

Published 07/03/23

Onomatopoeia

Learn about words that sound like the thing they describe.

Published 06/26/23

Multi-word verbs

Do you ever 'meet up with' your friend in the park? We talk about multi-word verbs.

Published 06/19/23

Adjectives ending with -ic and -ical

We explain how some adjectives end in either -ic or -ical, depending on their meaning.

Published 06/12/23

Strong adjectives

Listen to our fantastic, wonderful programme about strong adjectives.

Published 06/06/23

Male and female job words

How words change depending on whether a man or a woman is doing the job.

Published 05/29/23

New words

Rob and Catherine are here to help you update your language!

Published 05/22/23

Weather words

British people love to talk about weather! Learn some useful vocabulary about it here.

Published 05/15/23