BBC Radio - Learning English Vocabulary

Suffixes: -ment, -ance, -ence

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

Learn about words like someone, nothing and anywhere in 6 minutes.

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

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? Neil and Finn talk about prefixes.

What's the date today? Do you know how to say it? Listen to the programme to find out.

Gonna, wanna, dunno, whatcha... We give you an introduction to short spoken forms.

Can you count knowledge, money or happiness? How to deal with uncountable nouns.

We look at time expressions with 'in', 'at' and 'on'.