Build your English vocabulary with these short programmes. Each episode explores a new topic to impr
Boring or bored? Learn about words that look similar but have very different meaning.
Is this a smoke-free or a smokeless workplace? Learn the difference!
Do you suffer from dyspepsia? Could a detox diet help? Learn about prefixes.
What's the date today? And do you know how to say it?
Gonna, wanna, dunno, whatcha… are these really English words? Who uses them and why?
What is more important in life: knowledge, money or happiness?
Learn how to use time expression with the preposition in, on and at
Find out why we write some phrases with hyphens but not others.
Catherine and Finn talk about spelling words with double letters in 6 Minute Vocabulary.
Learn how to pronounce verbs and nouns with Neil and Catherine.
Catherine and Doug discuss British and American English
Can you think out of the box or take the helicopter view at work? Learn business jargon.
'c' or 's'? Learn how to spell words that begin with a /s/ sound.
When talking about moving in, moving out and moving on, what do we mean? We explain.
Do you recycle your rubbish? Do you buy prepacked food? Are you proactive?
How do you pronounce the words night and knight?
Learn about words that sound like the thing they describe.
Do you ever 'meet up with' your friend in the park? We talk about multi-word verbs.
We explain how some adjectives end in either -ic or -ical, depending on their meaning.
Listen to our fantastic, wonderful programme about strong adjectives.
