Learning English Vocabulary Episodes Available now

Chunks of language
Find out how you can sound much more natural by learning and using chunks of language.

Prefixes
Learn how to add prefixes to the beginning of some words to change their meanings.

Adjectives and adverbs
Fashionable? Fashionably? Learn how to use adjectives and adverbs.

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

Academic Vocabulary
Do you have to write academic texts and essays? Finn and Neil give you some tips.

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

Irregular verbs 2
Break, broke, broken... We look at verbs that don't behave themselves.

Eponyms as nouns and verbs
To google, to hoover... Learn about words that have come from commercial products.

Adjectives from names
Freudian, Dickensian, Orwellian... learn about adjectives that come from names.

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