Learning English Vocabulary

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1. Antonyms

   19 december 2023 · 6 min

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   Finn and Catherine discuss antonyms in 6 minute Vocabulary.

2. Suffixes: -ness & -ity

   11 december 2023 · 6 min

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

3. Discourse markers: showing attitude

   5 december 2023 · 6 min

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   fortunately, obviously, seriously, ideally.

4. Suffixes: -ment, -ance, -ence

   27 november 2023 · 6 min

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

5. Someone, somewhere, anywhere...

   20 november 2023 · 6 min

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

6. Irregular verbs

   13 november 2023 · 6 min

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

7. Reporting verbs

   7 november 2023 · 6 min

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

8. False friends

   30 oktober 2023 · 6 min

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

9. Words with 'ough'

   23 oktober 2023 · 6 min

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

10. Easily confused words

    16 oktober 2023 · 6 min

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

11. Suffixes: -less and -free

    9 oktober 2023 · 6 min

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

12. Prefixes de, dis, dys

    2 oktober 2023 · 6 min

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

13. Ordinal numbers

    25 september 2023 · 6 min

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

14. Short spoken forms

    18 september 2023 · 6 min

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

15. Uncountable nouns

    11 september 2023 · 6 min

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

16. Time expression with in, on and at

    4 september 2023 · 6 min

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

17. Hyphenation

    25 augustus 2023 · 6 min

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

18. Words with double letters

    21 augustus 2023 · 6 min

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

19. Pronouncing verbs and nouns

    14 augustus 2023 · 6 min

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

20. British and American English

    8 augustus 2023 · 6 min

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    Catherine and Doug discuss British and American English

21. Business jargon

    31 juli 2023 · 7 min

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

22. How to pronounce words that start with 'c'.

    24 juli 2023 · 6 min

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

23. Phrasal verbs and context

    17 juli 2023 · 6 min

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

24. re, pre and pro

    10 juli 2023 · 6 min

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

25. Silent letters

    3 juli 2023 · 7 min

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    How do you pronounce the words night and knight?

26. Onomatopoeia

    26 juni 2023 · 6 min

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    Learn about words that sound like the thing they describe.

27. Multi-word verbs

    19 juni 2023 · 6 min

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

28. Adjectives ending with -ic and -ical

    12 juni 2023 · 6 min

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

29. Strong adjectives

    6 juni 2023 · 6 min

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    Listen to our fantastic, wonderful programme about strong adjectives.

30. Male and female job words

    29 mei 2023 · 6 min

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

31. New words

    22 mei 2023 · 6 min

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

32. Weather words

    15 mei 2023 · 6 min

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

33. Homophones

    9 mei 2023 · 6 min

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    Learn about words that sound the same but have different meanings

34. Compound nouns

    2 mei 2023 · 6 min

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    Ice cream, popcorn... Learn about nouns made up of a combination of two words.

35. Adjective order

    24 april 2023 · 6 min

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    We explain the order you put adjectives in when describing a dog!

36. Contractions

    17 april 2023 · 6 min

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    Finn and Feifei help you learn this important part of speaking and writing, in English.

37. Job suffixes

    3 april 2023 · 6 min

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    What's the connection between a teacher, a driver or a presenter?

38. Word stress

    27 maart 2023 · 6 min

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    Do you know how to pronounce the words photographer and photograph? We can help you.

39. Compound adjectives

    20 maart 2023 · 6 min

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    Learn how to use compound adjectives (e.g. low-fat yoghurt, high-quality carbohydrates).

40. Lexical sets

    13 maart 2023 · 6 min

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    Finn and Catherine give you some tips on how to remember new words.

41. -ing and -ed adjectives

    6 maart 2023 · 6 min

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    Interested or interesting? Which adjective do you use? We discuss -ing and -ed adjectives

42. Binomials: phrases made of two words

    27 februari 2023 · 6 min

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    Do you want some cheap and cheerful tips to improve your English? Listen to learn more.

43. Useful chunks of language

    20 februari 2023 · 6 min

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    Do you like to eat a full English breakfast? Listen to find out how to use this phrase.

44. Prefixes: un-, in- and dis-

    20 februari 2023 · 6 min

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    Learn some prefixes which we hope won't make you feel unhappy.

45. Adjectives and adverbs

    6 februari 2023 · 6 min

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    Fashionable? Fashionably? We teach you adjectives and adverbs.

46. Suffixes

    30 januari 2023 · 6 min

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    Finn and Alice look at a very important part of word building – suffixes.

47. Academic Vocabulary

    23 januari 2023 · 6 min

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    Do you have to write academic texts and essays? We give you some tips on how to do it.

48. Talk like Shakespeare

    16 januari 2023 · 6 min

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    Learn some idioms from 'the Bard' which are in common use today.

49. More irregular verbs

    9 januari 2023 · 6 min

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    Write, wrote, written. Speak, spoke, spoken - learn more about irregular verbs.

50. Eponyms as nouns and verbs

    30 december 2022 · 6 min

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    To google, to hoover... Learn about words that have come from commercial products.