English in a Minute: Verbs to use with 'language'

Learning English Vocabulary

BBC

Language Learning, Education

4.5 • 523 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

Learning a language is great - you need to study it. Mastering it is even better. Once you've done that you can express things in complex language. Learn these verbs and others with Phil in this podcast.

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0:00.0	You're listening to BBC LearningEnglish.com.
0:04.6	Learn verbs to use with language. Now you're speaking my language. If you want to be able to speak a language, then you need to study it and learn it. I've been studying languages for 30 years and I've learned a few of them. I know eight languages. I speak some well and some
0:22.6	badly. Maybe just learning a language isn't good enough for you. Maybe you want to master a language.
0:31.2	That means speak it really well. Living in a country is the best way to master its language.
0:38.3	Things can be expressed in or be couched in simple language.
0:42.3	It means the same thing.
0:44.3	Maybe you want to enrich your language with some more complex expressions.
0:48.3	The letter was expressed in very direct language.
0:52.3	We knew exactly what to do. Reading poetry can enrich your language.
0:57.0	Let me couch this in simple language. Our videos will help you enrich your language and master English.

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