Learning English Vocabulary Podcast
Build your English vocabulary with these short programmes. Each episode explores a new topic to improve your English.
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Episodes to download
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English in a Minute: Phrases with head
Last Wednesday
Learn phrases that commonly contain the word 'head'
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English in a Minute: Phrases with 'ear'
Last Wednesday
Learn phrases that are commonly used with 'ear'
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Useful chunks of language
Mon 8 Sep 2025
Do you like to eat a full English breakfast? Listen to find out how to use this phrase.
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Words with 'ough'
Mon 1 Sep 2025
Cough, thought, enough, although: Learn how to pronounce words with 'ough'.
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Easily confused words
Mon 25 Aug 2025
Boring or bored? Learn about words that look similar but have very different meaning.
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English in a Minute: Phrases with sea
Fri 22 Aug 2025
Learn phrases that are commonly used with 'sea'
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English in a Minute: Phrases with fire
Thu 14 Aug 2025
Learn phrases that are commonly used with 'fire'
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Prefixes de, dis, dys
Mon 11 Aug 2025
Do you suffer from dyspepsia? Could a detox diet help? Learn about prefixes.
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English in a Minute: Phrases with face
Wed 6 Aug 2025
Learn phrases that are commonly used with 'face'.
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Ordinal numbers
Mon 4 Aug 2025
What's the date today? Do you know how to say it? Listen to the programme to find out.
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English in a Minute: Phrases with stone
Wed 30 Jul 2025
Learn phrases that are commonly used with 'stone'
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Short spoken forms
Mon 28 Jul 2025
Gonna, wanna, dunno, whatcha鈥� are these really English words? Who uses them and why?
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English in a Minute: Phrases with blue
Wed 23 Jul 2025
Learn phrases that are commonly used with 'blue'
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English in a Minute: Phrases with ice
Wed 16 Jul 2025
Learn phrases that are commonly used with 'ice'
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Time expressions
Mon 14 Jul 2025
Neil and Catherine look at time expressions with 'in', 'at' and 'on'.
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English in a Minute: Verbs to use with 'network'
Wed 9 Jul 2025
Form a network and learn collocations with Beth in this podcast
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Hyphenation
Mon 7 Jul 2025
Learn how to use hyphens: "They did a ten-foot dive into the swimming pool."
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English in a Minute: Verbs to use with 'strategy'
Wed 2 Jul 2025
What's your strategy for learning English? Listen to Beth to find out more.
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Words with double letters
Mon 30 Jun 2025
We talk about spelling words with double letters in 6 Minute Vocabulary.
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English in a Minute: Verbs to use with 'resource'
Wed 25 Jun 2025
We鈥檝e pooled our resources to make this podcast for you! Listen to Georgie to hear more.
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Pronouncing verbs and nouns
Mon 23 Jun 2025
'Increase' can be a noun or a verb and they aren't pronounced the same way...
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English in a Minute: Verbs to use with 'theory'
Wed 18 Jun 2025
Are you ready to test your English learning theories with this podcast?
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British and American English
Mon 16 Jun 2025
Hear about differences and similarities in vocabulary from both sides of the Atlantic.
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