English Rewind - 6 Minute English: Love letters 💗💗💗

📻 Have you ever written a love letter? Yvonne and Rob talk about the language of love, while you improve your English vocabulary knowledge AND practise your English listening with this archive episode of 6 Minute English.

Useful vocabulary:
✔️ romantic - having a lot of positive, and often unrealistic, ideas about love
✔️ frontline - place where soldiers are directly fighting the enemy in a war, and in danger of being killed
✔️ a sweetheart - a person you feel affection and love for
✔️ shy - a shy person is often quiet, nervous, and uncomfortable around other people
✔️ engaged - when two people get engaged, they make a promise to marry each other
✔️ distant - far away
✔️ very moving - making you feel very emotional
✔️ worst case scenarios - the most unpleasant or difficult situations you can imagine
✔️ deployment - movement of a group of soldiers to a particular place
✔️ banal - very ordinary and not interesting

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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 March 2011.

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[letsplayroblox]

Wow i like that kind of podcasts. Thanks BBC. It's such a cute topic in my opinion. One day i received the love letter but somebody didn't write his thoughts he added some quotes about his feelings to me. I read it and honestly got surprised. It was romantic lol. Love letters are the best way to express what we are feeling and why. Love letters are good to keep for some memories. It can bring back to them when time will pass by ^-^

[Phonetician_]

Handwriting letters brings different feelings. I suppose way better than online messages.

[RhillEnglish]

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:30 💌 Both hosts have sent and received love letters.
01:32 💑 "Sweetheart" is an old-fashioned term for someone we are fond of; similar to "girlfriend" or "boyfriend" today.
02:33 📜 Letters from soldiers to loved ones during wars show romantic sentiments, expressed more formally.
03:30 😢 Some letters are moving, describing separation and even bereavement in soldier's relationships.
04:58 ✉️ Love letters throughout history share common themes of love, missing, and reassurance.
05:55 📮 The Royal Mail was founded in 1516, emphasizing the long history of letter writing, especially love letters.

[rileylee]

have been listening to this programme for 2 years, you guys have already become an indispensable part of my daily life. Love your guys, thanks for teaching me lots of new words, phrases and culture

[harshagopal]

This video is absolutely lovely. I think the word love is most powerful word in the universe.letters are outdated now days, but the museum has the collection of more 200 years old love letters are quite surprising..🥰Distant romantic relationships are always sweet.After watching this video a proudly salute all Braveheart soldiers who are far away from their loved once and serving for our nations.

[tammytsang]

The above podcast is old but precious. Thank you ❤🎉

[Tadasuke]

Love letters, message cards and new year celebrating letters, many thing were writen by our hand, thesedays they have been almost replaced to online message though. But I love hand-writing letters or cards. I can feel the writer with them.

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[mhmdnour]

I’m going to tell you about (1) city called Hama, in (2) west of

Syria. It is (3) city with lots of beautiful old houses. You can move around (4)

city on your own two feet – or by (5) car.


1- the first space we use (a) becuse the word ciy is mentioned the first time. 

 3- the third space we use (a) in spite of the word (city)  is mentiond for the second time 


Please if you give me claritlfing

[antoniajuanicomulet]

Be careful to eho you write, some men are afraid and think you are a paranoid or sexual obsessed and have very dangerous and boring ideas...