English Rewind - 6 Minute English: handwriting vs font

📻 Do fonts have personalities? What does your choice of font say about you? Learn more with Rob and Cath while you improve your English vocabulary knowledge AND practise your English listening with this archive episode of the BBC Learning English programme 6 Minute English. Do you have a favourite font? Tell us in the comments 👇👇👇
Useful vocabulary:
✔️ fonts - different styles and sizes of letters that are used in printing or typing
✔️ an array - a group of collection of things or people, often large or impressive
✔️ typography - the way of preparing and arranging printed material, especially designing how text will appear when it's printed
✔️ calligraphy - the art of producing beautiful handwriting, often using a brush or a special pen
✔️ unsophisticated - simple and basic
✔️ characteristics - qualities or features that are typical of someone or something
✔️ humanitarian - concerned with reducing suffering and improving the conditions that people live in
✔️ competent - efficient and effective
✔️ loathed - strongly disliked
✔️ jaunty - light-hearted, full of confidence and energetic
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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 October 2011.
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[@bbclearningenglish]

Thanks for watching! Do you have a favourite font? 😁 Tell us in the comments! 👇👇

[@user-tu9ih5ck9c]

Huge respect to you but I am upset a bit-there is no any subtitles and I was unable to grasp new words' spelling

[@mazaweieishwe8920]

Click CC
Beside the setting

[@krishnawaghere8183]

Please subtitle please

[@user-qp8hh2bv6r]

I have been listening to learning English for 4 years. These are always amazing lessons. Every time I learn new interesting words. Thank you very much for your toil.

[@bbclearningenglish]

Thank you for learning English with us for four years 🎉

[@damanrofiq3699]

Alhamdulillah...it"s great to help improving my english...

[@taherelsayed1865]

Great! Thanks

[@benjaminestrada8788]

Thanks a lot. Greetings from Mexico..

[@amiraratkovic2619]

This video is astonishing.❤❤❤

[@ximuoidethuong]

Thanks a lot

[@ud7512]

Can you please add subtitles? Thanks:)

[@bbclearningenglish]

Hello 👋 Subtitles have just been added! 😊Thank you for your patience.

[@Hi__All_]

Ah..First of all,I just want to say thank you for your daily English learning videos! But actually , I'm not a good listener yet. So, I need captions because I watch while listening to the voice with captions at the same time. Therefore, I hope the next video has captions ,please!

[@bbclearningenglish]

👍 We have just added the captions! 😊Thank you for your patience.

[@MyAnimation-vc4ff]

BBC contents are most most useful to learn something new,

[@mdminanudden4061]

😊 yeah we enjoy it ☺️

[@elizabetharmada5335]

It's better if you write the words on the screen,it's hard for me to understand some words...I'm translating the English words into my own tongue

[@AminuddinHashmi-ns4bt]

Same here ❤😢

[@mehwishgul5691]

Double C is written on the right side of the screen, click on it and English will be written

[@mohammedyusuf6419]

It very useful for beginners

[@user-wt3mb2yw8r]

Bro do u mean it is very useful for beginners

[@fatizahra2419]

Good morning ❤

[@JuanHernandez-lk7sc]

Greetigns from México.Saludos desde México.I have QSL card of sw radio.BBC.

[@voltydequa845]

Narration, handwriting, Guttenberg press, typing machine, matrix printer, postscript printer, Wysiwyg, font choosing, smileys, wechat Wyciwyg (What you click is what you get). What an evolution! Imho the fonts carry, though only in part, the responsibility for diminished book reading. I remember when people were coming back from office carrying with them tens of pages with various font patterns, and seemed lost due to excess of choice while staring at those pages. Some of them went to take psychoanalyses sessions due to font-identity crises. And there were some extreme cases, like carrying around fonts on a leash, acquiring transfont identity and applying for lgbt++++ classification, or jealousy because a beloved font suited better a colleague.
À la recherche de fonte d'identité.
- "How are you going?"
- "Well ... I feel a bit too Courier today. Hope to feel at least Helvetica tomorrow".

[@farhanslife6478]

Same here Ariel

[@rosyfiorino9393]

Good Morning

[@theblacksun2355]

Can you add subtitles plz?

[@bbclearningenglish]

They have just been added. 😊 Thank you for your patience.

[@RaouaneMigha-hf7hc]

❤️

[@huyentranngoc7911]

❤❤❤

[@yulingkho5961]

Mine is Arial

[@alirezaakbarijamarani1904]

👍🙏🏼👍

[@ryuuu16]

Please subtitles

[@bbclearningenglish]

They have just been added. 😊Thank you for your patience.

[@ryuuu16]

Thank you🎉

[@ArianeGonzales1]

No CC in the video 🥲

[@bbclearningenglish]

They have just been added. 😊Thank you for your patience.

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❤❤❤❤😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@ammarfazal3672]

Subtitle where is??

[@bbclearningenglish]

They have just been added 👍

[@minegarden]

I had always heard that handwriting can say much about who you are, but saying that with the font used we can interpret someone's personality is weird.

[@libra_learning56]