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Since the pandemic start in Brazil I started to attend in some English conversation via zoom with some foreigners most of them from Japan and China. I don't speak japanese or chinese but to meet new people and communicate with them just using English without out my home is something that make me feel so happy to keep studying English. I love communicate with everyone even though I'm so shy, but when I'm talking in English everything is different. BBC learning English is my favorite way to improve my English.
Any new knowledge improve your mind, but a new language improve the way of your communication with another people, It’s a gesture a good sign to start in another country
Love this 6 minute English. I am Mexican and I teach this 2nd language and it is very usful for me and my stude ts to hear and practice their understanding. THANK U
Multilingual children have the ability to learn and speak several languages from an early age. It has been shown that this gives them cognitive advantages, such as greater mental flexibility and problem-solving skills. They can also have a greater understanding and appreciation for different cultures.
It is important to know other languages because it allows us to communicate with people from different cultures, expand our job opportunities, improve our cognitive skills and have a broader perspective of the world.
Hello BBC team I have thoroughly finished BBC news lessons 6 minutes English too it really means a lot to improve my pronunciation Hope more lessons down the line as time running fast too
1. There is new student in our class. He is a polyglot. He can speak English, Spanish, Indonesian, Javanese, and Sundanese. 2. Netizen for me can be anyone who identifies with that term - It's somebody who uses internet and social media in their life. 3. Sometimes people play mobile games just for the sheer of pleasure. 4. She has no soul of jazz music. 5. My proficiency in speaking English is not that good at the moment. I will always improve it. 6. Speaking with someone in his language is very efficient like Nelson Mandela said.
Wow,this video has such a fascinating topic and i really like this video.But,would you mind answering this question for me,please:Does listening to music improve your concerntration while studying language and other subjects? (Please help me)
In my opinion,some foreign languages are relatived,if you learn English well,Spanish or Germany and so on will be easier to got.Chinese and Japanese are the same
Transcript Neil Hello. This is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I’m Neil. Rob And I’m Rob. Neil Bonjour, Rob! Kon’nichi’wa! Rob Excuse me? Neil ¡Hola! ¿Cómo estás? Rob Oh, OK, I think Neil’s saying ‘hello’ in different languages - French, was it? And then.. Japanese? And… Spanish? Is that right? Neil ¡Si, muy bien! Neil The English are famously slow to learn other languages. But it seems that Rob and I - and of course you - our global audience here at 6 Minute English - are good examples of polyglots - people who speak more than one language, sometimes known as 'superlinguists'. People who speak multiple languages benefit from many advantages, as we’ll be hearing in this programme. Rob That word polyglot sounds familiar, Neil. Doesn’t the prefix - poly - mean, ‘many’? Neil That’s right, like polygon - a shape with many sides. Rob Or polymath - someone who knows many things. Neil And speaking of knowing things, it’s time for my quiz question. The word polyglot comes from Greek and is made up of two parts: poly, which as Rob says, means ‘many’, and ‘glot’. But what does ‘glot’ mean? What is the meaning of the word polyglot? Is it: a) many words?, b) many sounds? or c) many tongues? Rob Well, there’s three syllables in ‘polyglot’, Neil, so I reckon it’s b), many sounds. Neil OK, Rob, we’ll find out if that’s right at the end of the programme. But leaving aside the origins of the word, what exactly does being a polyglot involve? British-born polyglot, Richard Simcot speaks eleven languages. Listen to his definition as he speaks to BBC World Service programme, The Documentary: Richard Simcot A polyglot for me can be anyone who identifies with that term - it’s somebody who learns languages that they don’t necessarily need for their lives, but just out of sheer enjoyment, pleasure or fascination with another language or culture. Rob For Richard, being a polyglot simply means identifying with the idea - feeling that you are similar or closely connected to it. Neil He says polyglots learn languages not because they have to, but for the sheer enjoyment, which means, ‘nothing except’ enjoyment. Richard uses the word sheer to emphasise how strong and pure this enjoyment is. Rob As well as the pleasure of speaking other languages, polyglots are also better at communicating with others. My favourite quote by South Africa’s first black president, Nelson Mandela, is: "If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart." Neil How inspiring, Rob - I’m lost for words! Here’s another: ‘To have another language is to possess a second soul’. Rob So language learning is good for the head, heart and soul - a person’s spirit or the part of them which is believed to continue existing after death. Neil Yes - and what’s more, language learning is good for the brain too. That’s according to Harvard neuroscientist, Eve Fedorenko.She’s researched the effects of speaking multiple languages on the brains of growing children. Rob Eve predicted that multilingual children would have hyperactive language brains. But what she actually found surprised her, as she explains here to BBC World Service’s The Documentary: Eve Fedorenko What we found - this is now people who already have proficiency in multiple languages - what we found is that their language regions appear to be smaller, and that was surprising… and as people get better and better, more automatic at performing the task, the activations shrink, so to speak, over time, it becomes so that you don’t have to use as much brain tissue to do the task as well, so you become more efficient. Neil Eve was testing children who already have language proficiency - the skill and ability to do something, such as speak a language. Rob Her surprising discovery was that the language regions of these children’s brains were shrinking - not because their speaking skills were getting worse, but the opposite; as they learned and repeated language patterns, their brain tissue became more efficient - worked quicker and more effectively. Neil It’s suggested that this increased efficiency is a result of exposure to different languages. Rob So that proves it, Neil: speaking many languages is good for the head, heart, mind and soul! Neil You took the words right out of my mouth! Rob And speaking of words, what does the ‘glot’ in polyglot actually mean? Was my answer correct? Neil Ah, that’s right. In my quiz question I asked you for the meaning of the word ‘polyglot’. Rob I said, b) many sounds. Neil But in fact the correct answer was c) many tongues. You may be a polyglot, Rob, but you’re not quite a polymath yet! Rob OK, well, let me get my brain tissues working by recapping the vocabulary, starting with polyglot - someone who speaks many languages. Neil The language centres in a polyglot’s brain are efficient - theywork quickly and effectively in an organised way. Rob Proficiency means the skill and ability to do something well. And if you identify with something, you feel you are similar or closely connected to it. Neil Polyglots learn languages for the sheer enjoyment of it - a word meaning ‘nothing except‘ which is used to emphasise the strength of feeling. Rob So speaking many languages is good for mind and soul - a person’s non-physical spirit which some believe to continue after death. Neil That’s it for this programme, but to discover more about language learning, including some useful practical tips, check out The Superlinguists series from BBC World Service’s The Documentary! Rob Bye for now! Neil Bye!
My mother tongue, Arabic, I would like to learn English, so is there a person whose mother tongue is English who wants to learn Arabic so that we can exchange and share learning
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where can I find the documentary ?
I love these 6 minutes English programs because they are always so informative I can't resist myself from listening them.....love you bbc 👍
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Since the pandemic start in Brazil I started to attend in some English conversation via zoom with some foreigners most of them from Japan and China. I don't speak japanese or chinese but to meet new people and communicate with them just using English without out my home is something that make me feel so happy to keep studying English. I love communicate with everyone even though I'm so shy, but when I'm talking in English everything is different. BBC learning English is my favorite way to improve my English.
Any new knowledge improve your mind, but a new language improve the way of your communication with another people, It’s a gesture a good sign to start in another country
Love this 6 minute English. I am Mexican and I teach this 2nd language and it is very usful for me and my stude ts to hear and practice their understanding. THANK U
I'm on my third language ❤️ it's a pleasure learning a new language.
It's great, isn't it!?
@@bbclearningenglish it's more than great 😍
What is the two other languages?
@@allysonnobrega4875 Arabic English, and now Spanish
Another impressive episode from your team. Thank you!
They help me improve my skill a lot!!! Thank you very much!!!
Efficiency and kindly they offered their best for free!!!
Multilingual children have the ability to learn and speak several languages from an early age. It has been shown that this gives them cognitive advantages, such as greater mental flexibility and problem-solving skills. They can also have a greater understanding and appreciation for different cultures.
Thank you, BBC
You're welcome! We're happy to help!
Thank you BBC
You're welcome! We're always happy to help!
It is important to know other languages because it allows us to communicate with people from different cultures, expand our job opportunities, improve our cognitive skills and have a broader perspective of the world.
Thanks your programme I learned many new words and quotes thanks Rob.
Thank you for the lessons
Thank you so much BBC
You took the words right out of my mind.. learned new thing today.. thanks BBC.
What does it mean ? Can u explain it ?
Hello BBC team
I have thoroughly finished BBC news lessons
6 minutes English too
it really means a lot to improve my pronunciation
Hope more lessons down the line as time running fast too
Thanks BBC
eu amo muito esse canal,parabens!!!!
Thanks BBC., From Ecuador.
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Hello BBC, I like this program. I am from Latin America.
If you want we can speak for learning
Hi from London! 😃
Thank you, such as interesting topic
If you want we are speaking
1. There is new student in our class. He is a polyglot. He can speak English, Spanish, Indonesian, Javanese, and Sundanese.
2. Netizen for me can be anyone who identifies with that term - It's somebody who uses internet and social media in their life.
3. Sometimes people play mobile games just for the sheer of pleasure.
4. She has no soul of jazz music.
5. My proficiency in speaking English is not that good at the moment. I will always improve it.
6. Speaking with someone in his language is very efficient like Nelson Mandela said.
Polyglot many sounds and so on! It comes from Greece. Thank you for this nice video!
Thanks
Actually, it's amazing learning languages out of sheer enjoyment, pleasure, or fascination.
Thank you for a very useful video.
If you want we can speak for learning
wow, didn't know our brain works that efficient, amazing! learning English here really fun, I glad I'm subscribed, thank you for your contents~
Thanks ..I loved it. Greetings from Brazil
If you want we can speak for learning
@@royallife2712 for sure
Thank you, BBC>
Wow,this video has such a fascinating topic and i really like this video.But,would you mind answering this question for me,please:Does listening to music improve your concerntration while studying language and other subjects? (Please help me)
It’s my favourite programme ! 🙏🌸💫😘
Wonderful!
Thank you so much for all vedios.waiting for more.
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An amazing TH-cam channel
Thanks it's a good programme
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Muchas gracias❤❤
If you want we can speak for learning
Thanks a lot. this type of video create.
Thanks to BBC Learning English , I'm a polyglot or a bilingual :) , Farsi and English
Are you from Iran , Assalamualaikum from India 🇮🇳❤️
Thanh you very much
In my opinion,some foreign languages are relatived,if you learn English well,Spanish or Germany and so on will be easier to got.Chinese and Japanese are the same
Not the same
Thanks for dealing with this topic which I'm interested in. BBC.
Glad to hear you're finding it interesting!
Best wishes. You are great..🙂👍
Very useful, thank you🙏👏👏👏
You are welcome 😊
Hello from Greece!!Good evening!!
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If you want we can speak for learning
good job
It was fantastic when Neil spoke in Spanish 😍
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Yep. He could have spoken portuguese too😀
Transcript
Neil
Hello. This is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I’m Neil.
Rob
And I’m Rob.
Neil
Bonjour, Rob! Kon’nichi’wa!
Rob
Excuse me?
Neil
¡Hola! ¿Cómo estás?
Rob
Oh, OK, I think Neil’s saying ‘hello’ in different languages - French, was it? And then.. Japanese? And… Spanish? Is that right?
Neil
¡Si, muy bien!
Neil
The English are famously slow to learn other languages. But it seems that Rob and I - and of course you - our global audience here at 6 Minute English - are good examples of polyglots - people who speak more than one language, sometimes known as 'superlinguists'. People who speak multiple languages benefit from many advantages, as we’ll be hearing in this programme.
Rob
That word polyglot sounds familiar, Neil. Doesn’t the prefix - poly - mean, ‘many’?
Neil
That’s right, like polygon - a shape with many sides.
Rob
Or polymath - someone who knows many things.
Neil
And speaking of knowing things, it’s time for my quiz question. The word polyglot comes from Greek and is made up of two parts: poly, which as Rob says, means ‘many’, and ‘glot’. But what does ‘glot’ mean? What is the meaning of the word polyglot? Is it:
a) many words?,
b) many sounds? or
c) many tongues?
Rob
Well, there’s three syllables in ‘polyglot’, Neil, so I reckon it’s b), many sounds.
Neil
OK, Rob, we’ll find out if that’s right at the end of the programme. But leaving aside the origins of the word, what exactly does being a polyglot involve? British-born polyglot, Richard Simcot speaks eleven languages. Listen to his definition as he speaks to BBC World Service programme, The Documentary:
Richard Simcot
A polyglot for me can be anyone who identifies with that term - it’s somebody who learns languages that they don’t necessarily need for their lives, but just out of sheer enjoyment, pleasure or fascination with another language or culture.
Rob
For Richard, being a polyglot simply means identifying with the idea - feeling that you are similar or closely connected to it.
Neil
He says polyglots learn languages not because they have to, but for the sheer enjoyment, which means, ‘nothing except’ enjoyment. Richard uses the word sheer to emphasise how strong and pure this enjoyment is.
Rob
As well as the pleasure of speaking other languages, polyglots are also better at communicating with others. My favourite quote by South Africa’s first black president, Nelson Mandela, is: "If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."
Neil
How inspiring, Rob - I’m lost for words! Here’s another: ‘To have another language is to possess a second soul’.
Rob
So language learning is good for the head, heart and soul - a person’s spirit or the part of them which is believed to continue existing after death.
Neil
Yes - and what’s more, language learning is good for the brain too. That’s according to Harvard neuroscientist, Eve Fedorenko.She’s researched the effects of speaking multiple languages on the brains of growing children.
Rob
Eve predicted that multilingual children would have hyperactive language brains. But what she actually found surprised her, as she explains here to BBC World Service’s The Documentary:
Eve Fedorenko
What we found - this is now people who already have proficiency in multiple languages - what we found is that their language regions appear to be smaller, and that was surprising… and as people get better and better, more automatic at performing the task, the activations shrink, so to speak, over time, it becomes so that you don’t have to use as much brain tissue to do the task as well, so you become more efficient.
Neil
Eve was testing children who already have language proficiency - the skill and ability to do something, such as speak a language.
Rob
Her surprising discovery was that the language regions of these children’s brains were shrinking - not because their speaking skills were getting worse, but the opposite; as they learned and repeated language patterns, their brain tissue became more efficient - worked quicker and more effectively.
Neil
It’s suggested that this increased efficiency is a result of exposure to different languages.
Rob
So that proves it, Neil: speaking many languages is good for the head, heart, mind and soul!
Neil
You took the words right out of my mouth!
Rob
And speaking of words, what does the ‘glot’ in polyglot actually mean? Was my answer correct?
Neil
Ah, that’s right. In my quiz question I asked you for the meaning of the word ‘polyglot’.
Rob
I said, b) many sounds.
Neil
But in fact the correct answer was c) many tongues. You may be a polyglot, Rob, but you’re not quite a polymath yet!
Rob
OK, well, let me get my brain tissues working by recapping the vocabulary, starting with polyglot - someone who speaks many languages.
Neil
The language centres in a polyglot’s brain are efficient - theywork quickly and effectively in an organised way.
Rob
Proficiency means the skill and ability to do something well. And if you identify with something, you feel you are similar or closely connected to it.
Neil
Polyglots learn languages for the sheer enjoyment of it - a word meaning ‘nothing except‘ which is used to emphasise the strength of feeling.
Rob
So speaking many languages is good for mind and soul - a person’s non-physical spirit which some believe to continue after death.
Neil
That’s it for this programme, but to discover more about language learning, including some useful practical tips, check out The Superlinguists series from BBC World Service’s The Documentary!
Rob
Bye for now!
Neil
Bye!
Su español es muy bueno!
I loved it.
Great video !!!
great
What's the easiest language to learn?
Very interesting topic ! 🐢
If you want we can speak for learning
KONNICHWA こんにちは. FROM JAPAN😊
Namaste India 🇮🇳🇮🇳
Glot...coined from glottus means many tongue..many sounds
Speaking mang different languages is good for head, heart, mind and soul but not tongue.😀
First comment, Have a nice day BBC Learning English , I am getting well with my English via 6 Minute English
If you want we can speak for learning
Who agree this is world's best English learning app?
#Hindi 🇮🇳
You get addicted easily to these clips.
If you want we can speak for learning
تحية لشعبة أ، وتحية خاصة ل حسن عبد الامير كامل كاطع الزاير
قليل مني
اخوي الكلف
هههههههه.
@@R53AQ 😂😂😂
من الولاده ماخذهه
Please bring 6M English to Google Podcast, like you did with The English We Speak. 🙏😁
Hay tanta información que no sé por dónde empezar, alguien sabe si hay algún curso paso a paso
Who's from Russian-speaking country? Привет из Харькова, чуваки!
Привет из Беларуси. Hope you're doing fine :)
@@strangeshadow5903 sure, I am ;)
Greetings from Russia 🤗
Привет из Тюмени!
I would like to learn the English language, so is there a person who wants to learn the Arabic language so that we can exchange or share learning?
hi, well I am English learning B1, I would like to learn Arabic also. I think the writing in Arabic is so difficult my mother lenguaje is Spanish.
@@alexanderarteaga7630
Hi When you learn a language from someone whose mother tongue it is much easier and with practice you become skilled
hello BBC from Vietnam
Hi from London!
Gamarjoba. Hello from Georgia.
Hello from South Korea, Good morning. But There, Good evening.
Wow.south korea is an awesome country!!💓
@@krishanisirimewan3443 thank u. We are in troble, too. Keep calm and carry on as usual.
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Hiya! We're sending a big hello from London! 😃
what a nice surprise! BBC comments!
The term "polyglot" refers to a person who speaks or masters several languages.
In a netshell, learning languages can benefit you one way or another.
Where can i watch the documentary you talked about? I researched for but didn't find. Thank you!
Hi Carol
I'm looking for a speaking partner to practice and improve my English speaking
I wonder if you are interested in
6minutes is better than news review
If you want we can speak for learning
Polyglot
Glot means tongue, I've got it right, because language and tongue in Russian sound the same))).
Include #हिंदी language also in your multi language discusdion
Dear guys could you please post on TH-cam video 6 minutes English: what is fat-shaming. Please 🙏
One of the first ones
Hei in Finish language ,Marxaba in Carabi language and Nabad in Somali language
👍👍👍
I'm the one who watched that first.
So offer me gratitude😜😜
Yessssir
Anyone learning Indonesian (bahasa Indonesia) here??
Sîlav
Polyglot.
Hello hola привет salom
I miss Catherine on Six Minute English
First one
Kiwe a ,punjabi
I have no room for learning foreign languages except English ATM. 💦
انا ارغب في تعلم اللغة الانجليزية فهل يوجد شخص يريد تعلم العربية
hay
i want s partner who speak English regular because of i want to take IELTS eaxm
By listening bbc, I am trying to know English.
If you want we can speak for learning
First
My mother tongue, Arabic, I would like to learn English, so is there a person whose mother tongue is English who wants to learn Arabic so that we can exchange and share learning
I would like to study Arabic
But I am not a professional or master in English
Does Neil speak English with an Argentine accent? 😄.
If you want we can speak for learning
Fake ahh comments
very undecent not to include Arabic in your picture
Very good
Thanks