词汇大师-- 'House' or 'Home'?

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: using the Internet to help make sense of words that are closely related. RS: Like house and home, for example. Both describe a living situation. But house refers to the building,

词汇大师-- The More Quotations Change

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: our guest is Fred Shapiro, the editor of the Yale Book of Quotations. RS: Six years in the works, this newly published book contains about thirteen thousand entries from all time

词汇大师-- How to Make a Fashion Statement

AP: I'm Adam Phillips for Wordmaster, sitting in for Roseanne Skirble and Avi Arditti. Today, we take a look at some of the specialized words found in the world of fashion. (MUSIC: I'm Too Sexy for My Shirt/Right Said Fred) AP: New York City enjoys p

词汇大师-- What Does Ecology Mean to You?

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: more of our interview with Rob Jackson, director of the Global Change Center at Duke University with some terms you're likely to hear in the climate change debate. RS: We start wi

词汇大师-- Saving the World

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster, our guest is Professor Rob Jackson, director of the Global Change Center at Duke University. He's with us to explain some of the language of ecology and climate change. RS: And we

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Military Terms in Civilian Use

AA: This is Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble. This week on Wordmaster ... some military terms that have come into civilian slang. RS: Sanya Aina, a listener in Lagos, Nigeria, is writing a book about the plight of peacekeepers in Sierra Leone and is

词汇大师-- How Learning a Second Language

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: why forgetfulness might actually help in learning a second language. RS: Ben Levy is a graduate student in the Psychology Department at the University of Oregon, studying an area

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Grammar Lady: Listener Mail

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- we answer some listener mail, starting with this question sent by e-mail from Siva Kumar in Madras, in Tamil Nadu, India. RS: Dear Avi and Rosanne, I would like to know the oppo

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Anu Garg: A.Word.A.Day

Broadcast: March 6, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- our guest is Anu Garg, the man behind a popular e-mail service called A.Word.A.Day. RS: And for the past nine years, that's exactly what subscribers hav

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Pronunciation in American English

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: April 10, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble and this week on WORDMASTER -- a way to find out what people are talking about. First, though, a story. (SOUNDS OF RUSHING WATER) RS: Imagine a waterway. Fish rush b

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Excuses

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: December 12, 2002 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: Just in time for those unattainable New Year's resolutions, the art -- and danger -- of making excuses. SCHLENKER: What excuses do i

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--TOEFL

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: July 25, 2002 Re-broadcast on VOA News Now: July 28, 2002 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- TOEFL tips! RS: Each year close to one million people around the world take the TOEFL -- t

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Grammar Lady: Only One You

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: August 29, 2002 Re-broadcast on VOA News Now: September 1, 2002 MUSIC: Only You/The Platters AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble. This week on Wordmaster -- what to do when there's only one you. RS: We're talking abo

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Slangman'The Three Little Pigs'

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: April 18 Re-broadcast on VOA News Now: April 21 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- we look at the teaching of English to non-native speakers at younger and younger ages. RS: Members o

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--English Teachers Convention, Part 2

AA: I'm Avi Arditti, and this week on WORDMASTER -- what's it like to be an English teacher in America today? I put that question to an expert at the recent convention of the National Council of Teachers of English, in Baltimore, Maryland. Meet Carol

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Slangman: Insults

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: May 29, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- Slangman David Burke is with us from Los Angeles to have some fun with insults in American English. RS: It seems our buddy Slangman has

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Slang Flashcards

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: February 19, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- a new way to learn slang. RS: It's a pack of sixty cards with slang terms on one side. Definitions and synonyms are on the back, p

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Americanrhetoric.com

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: June 17, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: a Web site that offers an interesting look at United States life and history, through examples of how Americans use rhetoric, the langua

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Five New Year's Resolutions

Broadcast: December 22, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: English teacher Lida Baker suggests five resolutions for people who want to improve their English in the New Year. LIDA BAKER: My first resolution tha

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Sound Change, Part 1

First broadcast: January 12, 2005 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: the sounds of change. RS: If you want a good example of how language changes, just picture a mouse. Are you thinking of a rodent -- or a device f