6 Minute English
Learn and practise useful English with clips from programmes around the BBC. Each week, we talk about an interesting topic and learn helpful words and phrases used in natural spoken English - all in 6 minutes! Practise your listening and hear natural spoken English. Find more at https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglishFollow us at https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus
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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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E-rickshaws driving away pollution
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How bubble tea got its bubbles
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Can you keep a secret?
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Bitter food, better health?
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Talking at the table
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Eating for two
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Dancing for the brain
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Nudges: The secrets of persuasion
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Why sitting is bad for health
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Why everyone loves the underdog
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Disability in music and theatre
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What makes a great library?
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Sewing to fight period poverty
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Plastic waste eaten by enzymes
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Feed your brain
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Food for new mums
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Fighting loneliness with soup
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What is the future of work?
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How the language of menus matters
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The psychology of greed
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Addicted to sugar
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Our love of pets
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Sexism: Female farmers fighting back
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Learning lessons from the Moon
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Could we live without plastic?
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Invasive species: Why don't we eat them?
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What and where is Little Italy?
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Social media and teenage health
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Mystery flying objects
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Elephant-proof farming
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Should we farm octopus?
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Ways to live for 100 years
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