Losing your mother tongue ⏲️ 6 Minute English

What does it mean for a child refugee to lose their first language? Sam and Rob hear the story of a woman who replaced her native Czech for English when her family had to leave their home country, and they teach you new vocabulary along the way.
❓❓❓ This week's question:
According to the United Nations, how many people around the world are currently living as displaced refugees?
a) 3 million
b) 53 million
c) 103 million
Listen to the programme to find out the answer.
Vocabulary:
✔️ mother tongue - native language; the first language you learn from your parents as a child
✔️ (someone is) dunked into - suddenly placed into a new, unfamiliar situation for a short time before being removed again
✔️ have faith - have confidence or trust in something or someone
✔️ sort itself out - (phrasal verb) stop being a problem, without anyone having to do anything
✔️ full-fledged - complete; fully developed
✔️ either-or - situation where only a choice between two options, with no third alternative, is possible
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[@user-zn4sv3el2l]

In fact it happens all over the world. My friend had an experience like that. She was born in one country and then moved to another with her family. Unfortunately she forgot her native language to speak. Her parents can but others can't speak their native language. I can call it like a problem. That's my point. Every nation and every country have their traditions. In my opinion what we call as a tradition have their language too, which it makes them like it. Such a good video. Thanks BBC for your work!

[@trangdieu.18c]

📍VOCABULARY IN THIS VIDEO “Losing your mother tongue” 📍 1. Refugeel: someone who has been forced to leave their country, especially during a war, or for political or religious reasons 2. Persecution: cruel or unfair treatment of someone over a period of time, especially because of their religious or political beliefs 3. Interpreted: to translate spoken words from one language into another => Interpret something as something 4. Traumatic: a traumatic experience is so shocking and upsetting that it affects you for a long time 5. Grieving: to feel extremely sad, especially because someone you love has died => Grieve over/for 6. Passed away: To die - use this when you want to avoid saying the word ‘die’ 7. Ancestry: the members of your family who lived a long time ago => Of ... Ancestry => Her mother is of German ancestry 8. Blended: to combine different things in a way that produces an effective or pleasant result, or to become combined in this way => Blend with/together => Blend is usually passive in this meaning. 9. Contradiction: a difference between two statements, beliefs, or ideas about something that means they cannot both be true => Contradiction between => In (direct) contradiction to something 10. Immigrant: someone who enters another country to live there permanently → emigrant 11. Mother tongue: native language; the first language you learn from your parents as a child 12. (someone is) dunked into: suddenly placed into a new, unfamiliar situation for a short time before being removed again 13. Have faith: have confidence or trust in something or someone 14. Sort itself out: (phrasal verb) stop being a problem without anyone having to do anything 15. Full-fledged: complete; fully developed 16. Either-or: situation where only a choice between two options, with no third alternative, is possible 17. A sense of tolerance 03/03/2023. 🌱Waoo, this is a special day!🌱 ALL THE BEST FOR YOU ^^

[@muitranvan0692]

Refugee người tị nạn

[@muitranvan0692]

Immigrant người nhập cư

[@muitranvan0692]

Mother tongue tiếng mẹ đẻ

[@fkfkfkfk2348]

I appreciate your list of Vocabularies. It helps us understand more about this lesson! hope your dreams with English come true. See you in the next lesson.

[@trangdieu.18c]

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[@roan46]

Finally a video talking about this usual "problem" when you're learning a new language... Interesting story. 👍👍

[@bbclearningenglish]

Glad you think so!

[@ozgurdemir8135]

@@bbclearningenglish where l can find thiss all subtitles

[@monaminas]

@@ozgurdemir8135 The subtitles in English (or other language) will be displayed if you press the icon "CC" on the screen of the video (up, right, as you look at your phone).

[@ozgurdemir8135]

@@monaminas thank u

[@MrQiao]

Hi from Moscow,as a Chinese living in Russia but try to speak English, I've been facing many problems in my life but I'm glad that I've got this chance to speak three languages at the same time ,btw ,i love your program and hope you the best

[@andreafixes]

It's amazing that you know 3 different languages :)

[@evaoxana3451]

Have a good luck !

[@tahsinnoorshahbazkhan6727]

I also share similar experiences of losing in touch with my mother tongue. Thanks bbc for uploading such a worthwhile video

[@andreafixes]

That's so interesting. :)

[@englishspeakingtime]

Thank you so much. As usual, it is an episode rich with new vocabulary.

[@VanAnhPham-yw9st]

I love this video for both the new words I learn and the interesting content. Many thanks from Vietnam.

[@yigitcanbaysal824]

Hi there I'm looking for someone to practice and improve my English I wonder if you are interested in? :)

[@andreafixes]

That's great!

[@yeroy744]

I would like to watch many videos from your programme. It helps me a lot to make my accent like British.

[@irenefang246]

My summary while listening The today’s topic is about the issue related to young refugees who are slowly forgetting their mother tongues as a result of living in foreign countries from the young age. Now, they have settled in Canada, speaking a new language which is different from her first language. Therefore, she can only practice Czech language at home with her family members. According to Judy Sedivy, her family was forced to leave her homeland which is Czech Republic during the Cold War. During her childhood, she was dunked into many circumstances where she had to learn various languages. However, it was not really traumatic for her as she believed everything would sort itself out. Also, she claimed that we could keep alive our beliefs by speaking multiple languages including our mother tongues which eventually identify who we are.

[@thalia9541]

Hi from Indonesia 🇮🇩 and thanks for the lesson 😃

[@ajoysd6054]

Great one!

[@maria._03]

Thank you 🌼 Very interesting story ☺️

[@silentoddly5484]

I am from Bangladesh.I want to improve my English language. Could you help me?please....

[@brendamartinez6955]

Thank you so much

[@mr.sayemsirmr.sayemsir9302]

Very Good.

[@indrilestari8914]

thank you❤

[@Katrin_Joy]

I am Ukrainian, but we live in Georgia, so I try to teach my son my mother tongue 🤗 I hope everything will sort itself out)

[@ahmedraihan7781]

Love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩 ❤

[@wedding_video]

Hi from Ukraine and thank you for the lesson ❤️🇺🇦

[@bbclearningenglish]

You're welcome!

[@Yuiko-zz4rm]

If I watch your videos, I know my vocabularies will be full-fledged.

[@alextsitovich9800]

5:43 There were police ads in British transport: "See it. Say it. Sorted."

[@tgchan]

Thank you/

[@zulaykho4257]

Thanks

[@bbclearningenglish]

Welcome

[@ShahrezadNorMohammadiy9116]

"Seven things that will destroy mankind: 1. Wealth without work 2. Pleasure without conscience 3. Knowledge without character 4. Religion without sacrifice 5. Politics without principles 6. Science without humanity 7. A job without morals."- Mahatma Gandhi 🇮🇳

[@romeubraga5942]

Very nice video

[@EWAMILENAP]

It's an interesting topic that is rarely spoken of.

[@KWOKYEWFUNGMoe]

thx for this interesting video

[@bbclearningenglish]

Glad you liked it!

[@user-zb3dh9se2r]

That was the best explanations, as usually)

[@bbclearningenglish]

Glad to hear that!

[@abdelslamkhlid2354]

❤❤❤

[@no_life_wth_leafras949]

I like it

[@mydreamagriculture]

interesting topic

[@ShahrezadNorMohammadiy9116]

“I learned Spanish as a young adult and everyone would always tell me that I spoke it wrong. The problem was that I was told I spoke English wrong too."- Elisabet Velasquez🌺 😊

[@andreafixes]

Great quote!

[@nawafmtr999]

Thank you for this great channel, I just want to know my level. I can understand all your videos but I don't understand everything that the people you meet when they talk?? What's my level and how do you understand them(the people you meet not you)

[@andreafixes]

You're doing great! Keep listening to different types of videos/speaking and you'll be able to understand better :)

[@user1688dish]

Thank you so much! Finally someone dicsussed my problem....

[@bbclearningenglish]

We're glad this was interesting to you!

[@tindrakara]

🤩🤩

[@Mikichan85]

I want say that this problem isn't only for refugees. There a lot, huge number of people that change countries... WITHOUT the language knowledge. Like me fir example. I move myself from Italy to Germany. I'm not a refugee, of course. But still have this problem. A lot of other Italian, expat everywhere in centuries. Or like the Chinese everywhere... So, please, don't close your mind when you do a video. Keep it open and don't give some false information. We exist...

[@user-un7gn8ej9v]

To be honest, I can't hear you, but will it be helpful if I watch it constantly?

[@andreafixes]

Yes! Keep practising your English and you'll get better and better :)

[@user-iu4nn4nf6o]

Rage preliminary come over leaps and bounds fraternize good laughs parent disconnect persecution full fledged

[@fatimequluzade9874]

What is either-or?Can anyone pls explain

[@malayadav936]

It is a situation in which we only have two option and no other third alternative

[@thugx5987]

I'm from India

[@thomaschen2057]

tbh, not sure what Julie means in the second part. It's so hard to understand a native speaker ; (

[@khuongenglish3665]

who can tell me that gathere the scripts this video, plz

[@bbclearningenglish]

You can download the transcript on our website, here - www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english_2023/ep-230302 😊

[@wryaosman68]

hello am from kurdstan

[@hadouken99]

Do you mean north of iraq?

[@user-ji7do1mg5t]

Michael Rosen?!

[@jyotsnavangepuram1890]

Videos are good.. but i thought that instead of presenting pic.. better to do in a video ( like visualization) format.. if possible.. then people will not deviate from this video...

[@andreafixes]

That's a great suggestion :)

[@ramazankamilov942]

🇺🇿🇺🇿🇺🇿

[@user-yl4qu7xj9o]

If you look deeper, and not just tell that tolerance is a good thing and people can integrate into any society. Then we will get a loss of culture. Various deep cultural processes are valuable for human development. And what to do if it was not a conscious choice of a person to move to another country and enjoy "cosmopolitanism" Many people suffer from the fact that they do not support the development of their language and culture in any way, for many the real pleasure is to live and build a better life in the country in which they were born. Looking at r u s s ! a, you can see that the erasure of nations within the empire does not lead to anything good. Mostly these are people with limited primitive thinking who do whatever the dictator tells them.

[@aycataskn6178]

I don't know my native language too 🤧

[@silentoddly5484]

I am from Bangladesh.I want to improve my English language. Could you help me?please....

[@andreafixes]

That's sad :(

[@Escurador]

What language is it?

[@aycataskn6178]

@@Escurador Bosnian language

[@dhxgjxshxjc]

I am first