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This is six minute english from bbc learning english
I'm neil and i'm georgie in english
There are many ways to describe smells
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Michael rosen wanted to find words
Describing bad smells and ask listeners of his b bc radio four program
Word of mouth for some suggestions
Fusty reaking
Hinking
Honking
M in funky smells are everywhere
Whether their bad smells like rotten eggs and sweatty feet or pleasant ones like lavda and fresshly bagged bread
What smells do you especially like or dislike georgiwell well really enjoy the smelelof lethther
But something i really love is the smell of rain
Which has a named you know it nenew um
I don't think i do actually it's called patricor is that smell of the ground
Just after it's rained um neil
What about you
Which smells do you like
Well i don't think you can be the smell of a fshshly opened packet of ground coffee
Oh
That's a good one in this episode will be learning the language of smells
Using some useful new words and phrases and remember you can find all the vocabulary plus acquiz and worksheet on our website bb y learning english dot com
But first i have a question for you
Geororgy one smell
Many people love one smell
L old old graks ks the sentimental feeling it what is them for second hand bookshops in fact
There's even a word for it
But what is it
Well it ll find out a peicical or see neider
Well we already know that patricle is the smell of the ground after rain
But first going have go out a gider
Well 'll find out how the end of the program
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Listening to michael ros's list st ununky reking humming and the rest
You think think englishe's good at describing smells
But in fact
All those words really mean is bad smelling in english
We often describe smells by comparing them to other objects for example
Something nice by smell like a rose
While something bad might smell like rotten eggs
But there are few words to describe the actual smell itself
Oxforford university psychologist
I see for magic has research the subject of smell extensively
It seems bthe michael rosen a little of what she's found out on bbc radio for program word of mouth
So if we think about things like stinky or fragrant
They're definitely telling us that something is good or bad
But unlike color terms it doesn't really seem to be about the object is describing
It seems to be a subjective thing
I could see all this perfume
It think his really fragrant
I think his stinky smboard can be true
Describing smell is not like describing other senses
I might think a perfume is stinky and adjective meaning bad smells
While neil might find the same perfume fragrant
Meilike pleasant smelling both can be true
The point is that neither stinky
Nor fragrant of how thing specific about the perfumes
Actual smells with our sense of taste
It's different words like taicy and colours visual things
I inan common idea that we can all agree on
But that's not the case for smells
A safer thinks
This is because unlike tasand colcolsmell words are subjective
That based on personal opinions and feelings rather than objective truth
This might explain why our attitude to talking about smells in smells
Here's a safer again sharing some examples of how we talk about smells with bbc radio for is if we compare sharing people talks about visual things
Are order taty things or taasor smells
But we find is we talk a lot about what we see and very really about what we smell
Young children in the uk are often interested in the sense of smells and the remark on it and the parent will shut it down
Nocy that's disgusting put it down a seaferrereararshows that
That here in the uk at least a talk about visual or auditory things much more than they talk about smells
The adjective visual means related to seeing an auitory means related to hearing the adjective for things related to smells is all factory
Maybe this is because of how we raised by our parents
That children ststart talking about smells especially unpleasant ones
Parents often react by shuthe conversation down the phrase to shut something down means to stop it along with other european languages
English doesn't have much vocabulary dedicated to the different smelties of actual smells
There are many ways of talking about smells especially unpleasant ones
But only a few words
Which describe actual smells themselves a good example of a word
Which does this is musty a dump stale smell
You might find in an old bookshop
And nethat that rememe me of your quesing
That's right
I ask you what the word is which means the smell of old books
I said it was vallewell well george you are absolutely right
Yeah
Peatricor as you said earlier is the smell of the earth after rain
And neither is the smell of cooking meat in fact
Okay
It's time for a recapital vocabulary we've learned
The adjective stinky means fell smelling
Yeah
Adjective fragant means ans pleasant smelling well
Bjective things are relaed on your own personal opinions and feelings rather than objective fact
The adjective visual describes things related to see ing
Auditory means related to hearing
Things related to smelling are called all factory
And finally the phrasal verb to shut something down
Means to stop it once again are six minutes are up
But they're still time to head over to our website bbc learning english dot com
For a quiz and work sheet containing all the vocabulary
We've discussed see you again soon
But for now
It's goodbye
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