EXPLORATIONS - Where Did the English Language Come From? This is Steve Ember. And this is Shirley Griffith with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today we present the first of two programs about the history of the English Language. More p

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A painter hangs his or her finished pictures on a wall, and everyone can see it. A composer writes a work, but no one can hear it until it is performed. Professional singers and players have great res

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: We're back with linguist and author Deborah Tannen, discussing communication between sisters, the topic of her most recent book You Were Always Mom's Favorite! RS: Did you talk to

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EXPLORATIONS - A Report on Cave Creatures and Ancient VillagesEXPLORATIONS - A Report on Cave Creatures and Ancient Villages BARBARA KLEIN: Im Barbara Klein. STEVE EMBER: And Im Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. This week, we lear

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AMERICAN MOSAIC - For Seniors, When Home Becomes a 'Virtual Village' FAITH LAPIDUS: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Faith Lapidus. Today on our show, we play music from some of the artists performing at this year's Coac

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Global Warming Could Delay Next Ice Age The next ice age could be delayed by tens of thousands of years due to excessive amounts of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which disrupts Earths natural cycle of warming and cooling, according

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'Word on Street' Impacted Language in 2011 While 2011 is over, some of the words that came to define the past year are still very much with us, and may be for years to come. Since 2011 was an especially busy year for grassroots political action, many

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Egypt's President-Elect at Home in His Village Just a few months ago, the idea of Mohamed Morsi as Egypt's first post-revolution leader seemed remote at best. But in Edwa, his home village in the eastern Nile Delta, no one seemed to doubt this native

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Georgian TV Beams Russian Language News to Russia Russia and Georgia have had no diplomatic ties since their war several years ago. Georgians currently are reaching out, however, to their much larger neighbor through a new Russian language TV channel

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Lesson 21 Age 1.We're both of the same age. 2.He's bigger for his age. 3.I come of age today. 4.I haven't been to the pictures for ages. 5.You're a big boy now.Act out your age. 6.They are age-old friends. 7.She looks much younger for her age. 8.Fift

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RAY SUAREZ, HOST: We're going to hear now about a new play by Tracy Letts. He won the Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award in 2008 for his Broadway hit August: Osage County. His new work, The Minutes, is at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre. It's about politi

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: All right. If you haven't been an avid exerciser, never fear. It's not too late, necessarily. A recent study shows that if you take up routine exercises even in late middle age, you can actually reverse some of the damage that a

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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: How might TV change in the age of Trump? That's a question Hollywood is mulling. NPR TV critic Eric Deggans is in Los Angeles for the Television Critics Association gathering, and he asked writers, actors, producers and executive

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Katia: Hey, Enam, I've heard that in Bangladesh there are still arranged marriages. Is that true? Enam: Yes, it is true. We still have arranged marriages but the number of arranged marriages are declining these days because students, or even you can

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to speak the language, especially around other people who speak both languages and maybe you're afraid that somebody is gonna correct you, which is actually a good thing, so you have to be able to let yourself speak it in front of other people who ca

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Todd: So Greg, we're talking about controversial issues and one of the issues in your book is income disparity. So, what do you think about minimum wage? Greg: Minimum wage. Minimum wage I think is very important to have otherwise employers are going

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The Divine Comedy是英国流行乐坛的鬼才音乐人Neil Hannon化名的一人团体,这首A Lady Of A Certain Age是一首很诗意的轻松小品,伴奏是典雅的弦乐,掺杂着民谣的味道。这首歌选自专辑Victory For The Com

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