English Rewind - 6 Minute English: New words

How many new English words are created every year? Alice and Rob find out. Find out more while you improve your English vocabulary knowledge AND practise your English listening with this archive episode of 6 Minute English. What new English words are you using this year? Join the conversation in the comments ????????????

Useful vocabulary:
✔️ edition - particular version of a newspaper, magazine or book
✔️ software tools - computer programs to help with a task
✔️ a question of - something that is important or central to an issue
✔️ get by - have or know just enough to do what you need to do
✔️ chat rooms - areas of the internet where people can post and read messages
✔️ jargon - words that are specific to a particular topic or group of people
✔️ social networking - activity on the internet that links you with other people
✔️ defriend; unfriend - remove a person from your group of friends on a social network
✔️ microblogging - typically smaller than a regular blog: involves sharing a short message, image or link online
✔️ dictionary attack - trying an enormous number of words in an effort to discover a password
✔️ toxic debt - financial products that are no longer valuable
✔️ quantitative easing - when governments put money into a country's money supply to boost the economy
✔️ vuvuzela - loud musical instrument that was famously played by fans at the 2010 FIFA football world cup in South Africa

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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 September 2010.

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