English Rewind - 6 Minute English: Disappearing words

📻 There are thousands of words in the English language - and they're constantly changing! Jackie and Kate find out more while you improve your English vocabulary knowledge AND practise your English listening with this archive episode of the BBC Learning English programme 6 Minute English. How do you remember new vocabulary? Tell us in the comments 👇👇👇
Useful vocabulary:
✔️ evolution - the gradual process of change and development over a long period of time.
✔️ extinct - no longer in existence.
✔️ predict - say what you think will happen in the future, especially as a result of prior knowledge or experience.
✔️ frequency - how often something happens
✔️ common everyday speech - the language we use most often
✔️ predictor - something that is happening now, that helps us predict what will happen in the future
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English Rewind is a collection of programmes from the BBC Learning English archive. This episode of 6 Minute English was first published on the BBC Learning English website in April 2009.
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[@bbclearningenglish]

English has a lot of words! 😲How do you remember new vocabulary? 🔤 Do you keep a vocabulary notebook, or do you make flashcards? Let us know! 👇

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I'v got notebook. Thanks a lot BBC. Greetings from Mexico.

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I keep a vocabulary notebook and try to use them in my speech. That's the way I remember new vocabulary!

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I watch your videos again from time to time. I think it’ll make more sense to learn new vocabulary in a context.

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❤ thanks for this lesson.

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Thanks 👍❤

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You're welcome! Check out the English Rewind playlist for similar videos. 😀 kzbin.info/aero/PLcetZ6gSk968QICSY0yfjpB8txHibQu39&feature=shared

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I enjoy

[@user-yoshio0209]

extinct means to die out. retained means to keep. frequency means how often something happens. Writing sentence makes me improve English.

[@voltydequa845]

Evolution and the consequential adaptation. Yesterday I came across a (could be) neologism, in a comment section. The word was whataboutism / whatabouttery. Whatever this word's future use, it is interesting to note that it enters the language to describe some rhetoric / dialectic phenomena that didn't exist, or were quite marginal, before, in the English speaking world. It is almost a translation of the Italian "benaltrismo", meaning to try to change the topic by shifting focus on irrelevant and / or marginal issues. Who knows - some words die as soon as they come out, just like mayflies.

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Stone-age ancestors Interesting word 🫣

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Thanks for this lesson, how I remember the whole lesson ?? Hehe as I am in Indonesia

[@bbclearningenglish]

We're glad you enjoyed it 😊

[@marineelire]

1) Evolution of humanity's values is the trickiest topic for us to discuss. 2) I cannot predict your future, on the ground of that, you are building it step by step on an everyday basis. 3) You have to remember about your consistency in your lerning languages journey, for the reason that, your frequency is the vital element of this.

[@bbclearningenglish]

Well done 👏 Instead of 'on the ground of that', we would say 'on the grounds that' 👍😊

[@voltydequa845]

In the video they said the word "dirty" is going to go out of use in could be 50 years. Then in my mind came the expression "dirty games". So I wonder if they predict another word / expression for such dynamics, or they are confident that there will be no "dirty games" in our bright future world. I'd be grateful if somebody comes out with a possible synonyms for it (apart the literal ones like perfidious, mafia-like, or similar). A question of "To be or not to be" while trying to resist against dirtiness. p.s. sorry if it sounds cryptic and/or "inappropriate", Heartful thanks for whatever kind of eventual attention.

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I also want to improve my speaking skills.

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We can read about extinct animals in books.

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Someone, please, help me with my English, I’m always using translator to check the correctness

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