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Build your English vocabulary in six minutes.
Every Monday join two of our presenters and hear about different ways to develop your vocabulary knowledge and skills.
Every Monday join two of our presenters and hear about different ways to develop your vocabulary knowledge and skills.
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4Have no fear... Finn and Alice are here and they'll teach you everything about prefixes!
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? Finn and Neil give you some tips.
Learn some idioms from 'the Bard' which are in common use today.
Break, broke, broken... We look at verbs that don't behave themselves.
To google, to hoover... Learn about words that have come from commercial products.
Freudian, Dickensian, Orwellian... learn about adjectives that come from names.
How many stars are there in the universe? Learn how to say big numbers in English.
"I have a confesSION: my ambiTION is to meet a MarTIAN!" - We teach you suffixes.
Learn about synonyms - words that have the same or similar meaning.
Do you know your ouch! from your ugh!? These words are called interjections.
Finn and Catherine talk through some of the complexities of English spelling.
Neil and Finn's top tips for dealing with specialist vocabulary
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@5:25 There is a clear, decipherable way (or "rule" as you called it) to determine spelling for both 'experience' & 'performance'. Both words have the short vowel sounds which tells us how to spell each respective suffix.
Very easy to grasp but quite helpful. Thanks.
Thank you I really liked this and it gave me much "excitement" to learn more 💙
great to hear this program.
Hi it was great episode for me, also this episode could be better if had video, thanks.
#notplay I can't play non of them. I was wondering if you could fix the problem.
why I can't download the episodes?
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Hey guys, there’s a problem with the file at 3:08 and 3:20. Cheers!
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