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Build your English vocabulary with these short programmes. Each episode explores a new topic to improve your English.

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6 Minute Vocabulary

Finn and Catherine talk through some of the complexities of English spelling.

Commonly misspelled words

Do you know your ouch! from your ugh!? These words are called interjections.

Discourse Markers: Interjections

Learn about synonyms - words that have the same or similar meaning.

Synonyms

"I have a confesSION: my ambiTION is to meet a MarTIAN!" - We teach you suffixes.

Suffixes -sion -tion -tian

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

Large numbers

Freudian, Dickensian, Orwellian... learn about adjectives that come from names.

Adjectives from names

Have no fear... Finn and Alice are here and they'll teach you everything about prefixes!

Prefixes

Find out how you can sound much more natural by learning and using chunks of language.

Chunks of language

Learn how to use these short English phrases made of two words that go together.

Binomials

Boring or bored? Interested or interesting? We'll tell you the right adjective to use.

-ing and -ed adjectives

We explain the order you put adjectives in when describing a dog!

Adjective order

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