Learning English Vocabulary Episodes Available now
Suffixes: -less and -free
Is this a smoke-free or a smokeless workplace? Learn the difference!
Prefixes: dys- de- dis-
Do you suffer from DYSpepsia? Could a DEtox diet help? Neil and Finn talk about prefixes.
Ordinal numbers
What's the date today? Do you know how to say it? Listen to the programme to find out.
Short spoken forms
Learn how these words are used: gonna, wanna, dunno, whatcha.
Uncountable nouns
Can you count knowledge, money or happiness? How to deal with uncountable nouns.
Time expressions
Neil and Catherine look at time expressions with 'in', 'at' and 'on'.
Hyphenation
Learn how to use hyphens: "They did a ten-foot dive into the swimming pool."
Words with double letters
Catherine and Neil talk about spelling words with double letters, such as 'accommodation'.
Pronouncing verbs and nouns
'Increase' can be a noun or a verb and they aren't pronounced the same way...
British and American English
Hear about differences and similarities in vocabulary from both sides of the Atlantic.