6 Minute English

BBC

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...

Episodes

Can apps teach you a language?

Climate change and extreme weather

How do we describe smells?

Sharing the road with driverless cars

Who does the housework?

How do climate scientists make predictions?

The Enhanced Games

Children in warzones

What's in a footballer's brain?

Should we cycle more?

Rude emails

Stress-free family meals

Limiting screen time for children

How advertisers make us spend money

The power of poetry

Living with debt

Making cities feel quieter

How reading shapes your brain

Searching for life on another planet

Should we eat ultra-processed food?