BBC Radio - Learning English Vocabulary

Discourse markers: showing attitude

fortunately, obviously, seriously, ideally.

ExciteMENT, performANCE, differENCE - how suffixes turn verbs and adjectives into nouns.

Learn how to use these very useful pronouns with 'some' and 'any'.

Choose, chose, chosen... We talk about verbs that don't follow the -ed pattern.

Learn about verbs that we use when we talk about what someone else has said.

Embarrassed - or pregnant? Words you think you know but mean something else in English.

Cough, thought, enough, although: Learn how to pronounce words with 'ough'.

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.