The stories behind our names ⏲️ 6 Minute English

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Send us a comment and let us know what your name means! You can download this week's audio and text here: www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english_2023/ep-230831

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VOCABULARY FROM VIDEO “The stories behind our names” ⏲ 6 Minute English 1. Humble = modest: showing you do not think that you are as important as other people 2. Blends [ transitive]: to mix two or more substances together // blend A with B // blend A and B ( together ) 3. Colonialism: the practice by which a powerful country controls another country or other countries 4. Typical : containing the most usual features of a particular type of person or thing; a good example of that type 5. Mass migration: historical movement of large groups of people from one geographical area to another 6. Pull the threads : (idiom) investigate deeper into something to reveal the hidden connections behind it 7. Anglicised: changed to appear or sound English 8. (can't) be bothered: (don’t) make the effort to do something 9. Tricky: difficult to manage; requiring careful use 10. Make the effort to do it 9/1/2023 VIET NAM ALL THE BEST FOR YOU

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[@ThucAnh-hb8xt]

Can you tell me what about "pull"?

[@johnibat]

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[@bbclearningenglish]

Thank you! 😃

[@حنانعبدالله-ز9ص]

My name is Hanan and it means tenderness and that really shows because I am kind and nice to others.

[@bbclearningenglish]

That's a lovely meaning :)

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Thanks for sharing, seems pretty insightful.

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[@BrianBrian-qn8sc]

Sheela Banerjee's parents gave her a typical English name to feel safe. Sheela Banerjee pulled the threads and found out her parents, with other people, had mass migrated to England. She found out that the British had anglicised her surname because they couldn't pronounce it or couldn't be bothered to pronounce it. Sheela felt that her anglicised surname was tricky to use because of its association with colonialism and oppression.

[@arkgcconstructionandmainte192]

Splendid topic.

[@tammytsang3487]

Growing up in Hong Kong ( a former British colony) , I had to use an English name in class for the native speaker who was our English teacher from UK had problems pronouncing our Chinese names at school.

[@陳品妤-u7v]

We have the same culture in Taiwan. Even though we haven't colonized by English-speaking countries in history, some of them think that having an English name is a cool thing. (By the way, my English name is Phoebe, which has the meaning of the Greek goddess of the moon.)

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[@danya22__]

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[@kowalski6086]

Thanks, i understood almost all

[@vagicherlamaheshtravelexpe9858]

Thank you 🎉

[@BriantheBrick]

In English, you say, pull the threads. In Chinese, we say, 抽絲剝繭. Also, the meaning of the characters is the same as the words in English.

[@paolobragantini2991]

Useful!

[@gulhumorusmonova1629]

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[@nereas2811]

My name comes from a Spanish area called the Basque country where there is another language apart from Spanish which is named "euskera". In this language it means mine or my. Nevertheless, there are others who suggest that its origin is Greek and it's related to the god of the sea daughters, therefore I can choose 😅.

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Very cool and useful

[@ilyin.konstantin]

My name is Konstantin. It means permanent. This name is all over the world ) Thanks for the video!

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[@febinjoofly]

yeah this topic is very interesting 😁I think so everyone important to their name meanings.

[@omarrajab5967]

During the typical mass migration, it can be tricky to anglicise one's identity while trying to pull the threads of cultural heritage when some individuals simply can't be bothered.

[@green_frogg0_0]

Thx

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In Uzbekistan in last year more name with prefix abdu-,like Abdurahman Abdullah.

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[@inwhanoh5538]

Thanks. Due to the topic, I tried to pull the thread of the cast and Republic of India. I think it is kind of tricky topic. Anyway, many thanks.

[@irenefang246]

thanks BBC My summary while listening Our name is an important part of our identity. If you hear someone shout your name in the street, you automatically turn to look but names also reveal cultural and family connections which give us a sense of our history and our place in the world. In this program, we'll be meeting a writer whose name combines two very different sides of her identity, one English and the other Indian - Sheela Banerjee. According to Sheela, she has the name Sheela which is a typical English name for a girl. When she pulls the threads, they lead her to the story of her Bengali parents's migration to England and mass migration from the colonies after the war to England. All these stories also involve colonialism and caste. More from Sheela, her surname is Banerjee which is an Indian name but it's not her real name since Banerjee is an anglicized form of her original name which would have been "Bandyopadhyay" which was changed by the British. They basically couldn't be bothered to pronounce it or couldn't pronounce it. For her, it's always a mixed name because it signifies that her family were colonial subjects so it's a tricky name to carry around.

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[@陳品妤-u7v]

In many Chinese-speaking countries, there is a unique culture that almost everybody has an English name. The reason why they do this is because they think that foreigners might have difficulties reading Chinese names. Also, some of them think that having an English name is a cool thing.

[@learnenglishgoplaces]

Are there any Chinese names that always map to a particular English name?

[@陳品妤-u7v]

@learnenglishgoplaces Recently, more and more Chinese or Taiwanese parents would like to name their children some fancy names. Some of them sound like English names.

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[@asalathanair3278]

'Sheela' is a popular Indian name and is typical. Meaning - a female with good behaviour!

[@bbclearningenglish]

Thanks for sharing!

[@Brian-fo6ew]

Could you tell me what my name, Brian, means?

[@sashasrhi]

My name's Sasha, a name that is used in Spain or USA often and i'm from Latam so it's kinda weird 😅 But i like my name anyways

[@al_babel]

I miss the entire intro. "Six minutes English from BBC learning English"😢

[@KuldeepKaur-fv5xb]

I m pulling the thread to our culture and history..

[@ehsanullaharjmand1249]

My name (Ehsanullah) came from ISLAM root and i thank my family for this name. I am quite satisfied with my name.

[@Robert-un1ns]

I want to translate.

[@yaminaaitben1995]

My name's Dalila, its mean : the proof 😮😮😮

[@presssubok1711]

hello

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[@aspiringmahesh]

The police pulled the threads to understand the case.

[@Ak_the_big_bull_777]

Sheela is my mami name

[@ambedkarkorapati3870]

Beth says"She may have had a typical English name, but with dark skin and hair, Sheela didn't look like some people's image of a typical English girl".I condemn her above comments which are racist.When God made every human of flesh and blood, why some people feel themselves to be superior and look down on others as inferior creatures. I wish the BBC withdrew such controversial comments unconditionally

[@islambezziane4340]

My original name comes from islam religion so my name ISLAM moreover I'm glad by my name

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MasaAllah

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Are you from Uzbekistan

[@BJ-gi6jn]

How about my name, Jimmy, what does it mean?

[@bbclearningenglish]

Here in the UK, it's normally short for 'James'!

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My name is Nonin, which means Daisy

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That's cool. And Margarita in Spanish

[@АлександрТихонов-ч6в]

Unfortunately, I didn't understand

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My name in Arabic means survival

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Uzbek sila

[@henrycheng5061]

having a anglicize name absolutely is not a tricky, nowadays Most Bengali people will be jealous of your anglicize name and your identity of Britain.without colonialism and British empire you and your people will still living in Bengali of middle age. we shouldn't ask the ancients with the rule of modern morality don't be so naive.

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Phưn means whattttt

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1950s isn’t British India!

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