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Unit 15 Talking about languages 281.A person who speaks two languages is bilingual. 282.A person who speaks three languages is trilingual. 283.How many languages do you speak? 284.Can you speak Mandarine? 285.Can you understand your American teacher?
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
A: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: our guest is linguist Geoff Nunberg. He's been listening to how Americans debate issues, and there's a particular word he often finds they invoke: sensitivities. GEOFF NUNBERG: It'
UNIT 7 Learning about English Part I Pre-Reading Task Listen to the recording two or three times and then think over the following questions: 1. What is the passage about? 2. What's your impression of
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: a collection of life stories told in just six words. RS: But first, we have a report on a linguist in Virginia who collects accents from across America, and across the world, and
Noam Chomsky is an American author, lecturer, linguist, philosopher, and political commentator. He is a top professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His ideas completely changed teachers understanding of how we lea
Health Report - A New Reason for Why the Deaf May Have Trouble Reading This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Deaf people may have no trouble communicating English words through American Sign Language, or ASL. But studies of ASL users show th
The National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC, is devoted to the history and culture of native peoples of the Western Hemisphere. Since opening in 2004, the museum has put a strong emphasis on contemporary Native American life. Its lat
Review Tow.For this lesson,you'll need a pencil and a piece of paper. Some people are interested in archaeology, but they aren't professional archaeologists. They're amateurs.Listen as Jake interviews some amateur archaeologists. So why did you becom
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- more about terrorism and language. TAPE: CUT ONE -- BUSH Now is the time to draw a line in the sand against the evil ones. RS: President Bush, speaking this past week. Geoff Nun
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: a lesson in regional English in the American South. RS: And to give you that lesson is a woman who wrote to us from Alabama named Donna Akins. Donna Akins is not an English teache
Broadcast on Coast to Coast: April 17, 2003 HOST: Each Thursday our Wordmasters talk about American English. Filling in for Avi Arditti and Rosanne Skirble this week is VOA's Adam Phillips. He looks at some of the marks that wars have left on the lan
Broadcast on Coast to Coast: October 31, 2002 Re-broadcast on VOA News Now: November 3, 2002 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER, we catch up on some listener mail. RS: The first question is by e-mail from Paul, an E
Today, Chris Langan lives in rural Missouri on a horse farm. 如今,克里斯兰根生活在密苏里州乡下的一个养马农场。 He moved there a few years ago, after he got married. 多年以前,他在结婚之后便搬到了这里。 He's
Medical dictionary springs from largely forgotten English/Creole database Rosanne Skirble | Washington, DC 08 February 2010 A largely forgotten translator is getting new life in the aftermath of the devastating January 12 earthquake in Haiti which le
The Sci-fi thriller Limitless, starring Bradley Cooper as a writer who takes a pill to maximize his brain power has topped the North American film chart. The newly film Limitless is screened on March 18 and now lets have a discovery about the leading
Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: July 15, 2004 INTRODUCTION: Major League Baseball had its All Star Game Tuesday night. And, for the seventh time in the last eight years, top players from the American League defeated the National League. That means the A
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: the sport of conversation. FIRST ANNOUNCER: Not going to stop him! SECOND ANNOUNCER: I tell you, you get him out on the run, Felton's quick, but he's not faster than Brown. Felton
Get into conversation with someone from Britain and they will invariably mention the weather. It plays an important role in people's lives and determines their mood. But there is one climatic condition that is bound to make us complain the rain. Brit
American Poet: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 美国诗人:朗费罗 On February 27, 1807,Longfellow descended from well-established New England families. His birth place was Portland, Maine. In his home and in the town library, he had access to many