6 Minute English
Learn and practise useful English language for everyday situations with the BBC. Your weekly instruction manual for saying or doing something in English is published every Thursday.
Episodes (630)
Can cows prevent wildfires?
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How climate change affects animal migration
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Can AI solve crime?
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Learning multiple languages
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Are we getting more allergic to things?
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Can we boost the immune system?
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Healthy meals on a budget
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Should we eat less rice?
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The country that measures happiness
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A vaccine for cancer
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Young women on social media
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Rage bait: How online anger makes money
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Why smells make us feel at home
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Becoming a musician
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How the world learned to love fast food
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Which country has the best schools?
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Eating 50-year-old stew
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Are you drinking enough water?
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Embarrassed to go to the doctor?
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Call centres: Are you talking to AI?
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Making 'mum friends'
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Can you trust ancestry DNA kits?
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How babies learn to talk
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The secrets to a healthy old age
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The bond between sisters
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Having acne
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Why you need a good night's sleep
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Divorce: Why does it happen?
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Tech that refuses to die
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Did Taylor Swift fans cause an earthquake?
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What decides our taste?
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Learning a new food culture
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Saving water in the driest place on Earth
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Keeping kids off smartphones
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Less salt, better health
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Meet a real Willy Wonka
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Why we love dumplings
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Kids and climate change
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Birthday cakes
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The science of falling in love
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Why read books, not screens?
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AI to reduce animal testing
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The school that puts the kids in charge
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What can we learn from toddlers?
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How learning to read changes lives
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Building a better world with wood?
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How names can tell painful stories
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Too old to have a baby?
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Too old to have a baby?
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How bubble tea got its bubbles
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