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Get up-to-date with the latest news and understand it too with Lingohack. Listen to and watch authentic BBC World news bulletins and learn key words and phrases that help you make sense of the news.

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    Pigs on patrol

    Episode 220511 / 11 May 2022

    Learn language related to farming: scarecrow, harvest, crop, soil, fertile

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    ‘Extinct’ fish returns to the wild

    Episode 220504 / 04 May 2022

    Learn language related to disappearing and reappearing: missing, under the radar, bringing (something) back, recovering, making a comeback

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    Endurance: Shackleton's lost ship is found in Antarctic

    Episode 220427 / 27 Apr 2022

    Learn language related to shipwrecks: preserved, construction, pristine, portholes, raised

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    How to make people like robots

    Episode 220420 / 20 Apr 2022

    Learn language related to behaviour: playful, curious, sociable, interact, accept

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    Hope for people with diabetes

    Episode 220413 / 13 Apr 2022

    Learn vocabulary related to medical treatment: trial, monitors, game changer, quality of life, stabilised.

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    First woman of colour completes a solo expedition across Antarctica

    Episode 220406 / 06 Apr 2022

    Learn language related to physical challenges: comfort zone, gruelling, toughest, reservations, hardships

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    Going for gold in e-waste

    Episode 220330 / 30 Mar 2022

    Learn language related to chemical process: components, extract, heated, end result, recover

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    A family’s hope of ending discrimination

    Episode 220316 / 09 Mar 2022

    Learn language related to discrimination: to face, bullying, uniqueness, educate, stigma.

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    Recycling food waste

    Episode 220309 / 09 Mar 2022

    Learn language related to sustainability: deal with, breaks down, organic matter, sustainable, pathogens

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    Ancient bone found in the Thames

    Episode 220302 / 23 Feb 2022

    Learn language related to rivers: lurking, shallows, causeway, low tide, mudflats

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    Britain's lost Lego

    Episode 220223 / 23 Feb 2022

    Learn language related to the beach and the ocean: wash up, shoreline, off the coast, ocean currents, tide

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    Boxing to beat Parkinson’s disease

    Episode 220216 / 16 Feb 2022

    Learn language related to health and lifestyle: quality of life, rock bottom, medical intervention, exercise-orientated therapy, back on its feet

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    Out-of-hours work ban

    Episode 220209 / 09 Feb 2022

    Learn language related to work: civil servant, job, boss, normal hours, private sector.

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    Electric buses: greener public transport

    Episode 220202 / 27 Jan 2022

    Learn language related to buses: chugging, double-decker, secreted, cabin, range

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    Reducing construction waste

    Episode 220126 / 26 Jan 2022

    Learn language related to construction: wooden pallets, skip, manufacturing, supply chain, building site

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    Following whales round the Southern Ocean

    Episode 220119 / 19 Jan 2022

    Learn language related to researching animals: conducted, tags, track, migrations, transmitting

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    Robotic surgery

    Episode 220112 / 12 Jan 2022

    Learn language related to surgery: operation, medical field, patient, surgeons, keyhole surgery

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    Protecting seahorses

    Episode 220105 / 05 Jan 2022

    Learn language related to sea and boats: teeming with (life), mooring chains, seabed, tide, seafarers

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    How tourism and science work together in Antarctica

    Episode 180522 / 18 May 2022

    Learn language related to behaviour: alluring, remote, expedition, ambassadors, fragile