A: Have you heard who got elected? B: No, who won? A: Our new President is John McCain. B: What? You cant be serious! A: I was just as shocked when I found out. B: Why would anyone vote for McCain? A: The people have spoken. B: Thats horrible. A: If

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Korean Artist Explores Infinity at Guggenheim One of America's most prestigious museums of modern and contemporary art is showcasing the work of Korean artist Lee Ufan. Born in Korea, the 75-year-old has lived and taught in Japan, where he enjoys the

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Education Report - Debating the Best Way to Learn a Language This is the VOA Special English Education Report. What is the best way to learn a new language? A small study of foreign language learning in adults compared two methods. One is known as th

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Health Report - Language Has Risks for Health Translators This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Translators Without Borders is an American nonprofit group. It provides language services to nongovernmental organizations such as, yes, Doctors

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EXPLORATIONS - How English Evolved Into a Modern Language This is Steve Ember. And this is Shirley Griffith with the VOA Special English program, EXPLORATIONS. Today we present the second of our two programs about the history of the English Language.

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Technology Rescues Dying Languages In our interconnected world, global languages like English, Spanish and Chinese are increasingly dominant. But there are some 7,000 other languages spoken around the world and linguists say up to half of them are at

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: word order and the mind. A new study suggests that people naturally gesture in the order of subject-object-verb, regardless of the rules of their spoken language. Susan Goldin-Mea

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A 20 year old man in Italy has taken his father to court for money so that he can continue to live at home with his mother and study for a new career. But at 20, are we too old to expect our parents to be responsible for us? 意大利一个20岁的年轻人起

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Detained American Muslims look to media as they arrive to appear in an anti terrorist court in Sargodha, Pakistan [file photo] A Pakistani court has sentenced five Americans to 10 years each in prison after finding them guilty of terror offenses. Pak

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New York Speaks Your Language, No Matter What It Is With hundreds of languages and dialects spoken from around the world, few cities are as diverse as New York. New York is the capital of the world, where we live together in peace, said Ernesto Arias

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Environment May Affect Development of Language There are about 7,000 languages in the world, and they are constantly evolving and changing. But it's a bit of a mystery why languages change the way they do. Anthropologist Caleb Everett of the Universi

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Smithsonian Folklife Festival Showcases Vanishing Languages As soon as she heard the music, festival goer Patricia Joseph knew she had to dance. I always felt like dancing when I heard this kind of music, and I always felt restrained. But this was so

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By David Gollust State Department 25 October 2007 The United States has imposed wide-ranging new sanctions against Iran in a further effort to pressure Tehran to halt nuclear activities seen as weapons-related. Targets of the new sanctions include th

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Do you still remember the ambience of your hometown? Or has it undergone such unprecedented development that it has become completely different from how it was in your childhood? Do you miss the hometown of your memory? Tang Yongxiang is deeply in lo

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By Mil Arcega Washington 03 December 2007 A panel of oil experts, including an ambassador from a producing nation, warned this week growing militancy in the Middle East poses a threat to world oil markets. The forum, hosted by a conservative think ta

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Talofa This week is Samoan Language Week. We need to remember that Samoan is the third most common language in New Zealand, after English and Maori. A large number of Samoan people live in New Zealand. We have a census every five years and the last c

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This is Maori Language week, from July 27th to August 2nd. Every year, for the last 30 years, we have celebrated Maori Language week. This is the time to learn Te Reo Maori. You can learn 100 Maori words from the website: www.koreromaori.co.nz Maori

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By Jocelyn Ford Banda Aceh 08 February 2007 Newly-elected Governor of Aceh Irwandi Yusuf, second from right, and his deputy Muhammad Nazar, right, are congratulated by officials after swearing- in ceremony in Banda Aceh, 8 Feb 8 2007 A former guerill

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WASHINGTON, June 23 (Xinhua) -- The White House announced Wednesday that British Lieutenant General Nick Parker would serve as acting Commander of NATO's International Security Assistance(援助) Force in Afghanistan until a new U.S. Commander is

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