BBC Radio - Learning English Vocabulary

Useful chunks of language

Do you like to eat a full English breakfast? Listen to find out how to use this phrase.

Learn some prefixes which we hope won't make you feel unhappy.

Fashionable? Fashionably? We teach you adjectives and adverbs.

Finn and Alice look at a very important part of word building – suffixes.

Do you have to write academic texts and essays? We give you some tips on how to do it.

Learn some idioms from 'the Bard' which are in common use today.

Write, wrote, written. Speak, spoke, spoken - learn more about irregular verbs.

To google, to hoover... Learn about words that have come from commercial products.

We discuss a group of adjectives that are made from the names of famous people.

How many stars are there in the universe? Learn how to say big numbers in English.