The government has announced an extra £700m for English council budgets next year as a "first step" to rebuild their finances ...

or hammering a nail into a very hard wall - "Give it some welly!" Let's hear some more examples from our BBC Learning English colleagues. I was at karaoke the other day and I was a bit shy at ...

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For the Six Nations, Hiddleston is the one with the biggest chance of crashing through.

Pesticides that harm bees were found in the "majority" of English waterways tested in the last year, according to data ...

The language of the upper classes is known by language experts as URP, upper received pronunciation. According to Lord Onslow, the clipped phrases and lengthened vowels are perfectly natural, but he ...

For this it helps to know that, in English at least ... Professor Pine and Michael Rosen, presenter of BBC Radio 4’s programme, 'Word of Mouth', discuss children who haven’t quite discovered ...

To play this audio you need to enable JavaScript. Hello and welcome to The English We Speak, where we explain phrases used by fluent English speakers so that you can use them too. I'm Feifei ...