6 Minute Vocabulary
6 Minute Vocabulary
BBC Radio
Build your English vocabulary in six minutes. Every Monday join two of our presenters and hear about different ways to develop your vocabulary knowledge and skills.
Suffixes –free and -less
Carefree or careless? The suffixes -free and -less.
May 6
6 min
Prefixes: un-, in- and dis-
Learn some prefixes which we hope won't make you feel unhappy.
Apr 29
6 min
Adjectives and adverbs
Fashionable? Fashionably? We teach you adjectives and adverbs.
Apr 22
6 min
Suffixes
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.
Apr 15
6 min
Academic vocabulary
Learn how to cope if you are studying at an English-speaking university.
Apr 1
6 min
Phrases from Shakespeare
We learn phrases from Shakespeare that are still used today.
Mar 25
6 min
Irregular verbs
Some irregular verbs can be grouped into patterns to help remember the different forms.
Mar 18
6 min
Eponyms as nouns and verbs
What does the word Hoover have in common with the word Google?
Mar 11
6 min
Adjectives from names
We discuss a group of adjectives that are made from the names of famous people.
Mar 4
6 min
Large numbers
How many stars are there in the universe? Learn how to say big numbers in English.
Feb 26
6 min
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