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,

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

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

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

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

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

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

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

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

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

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

发表于:2019-01-25 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

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

发表于:2019-01-25 / 阅读(117) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

Today on Wordmaster, Rosanne Skirble takes us to a school in America鈥檚 Pacific island state, Hawaii, where students are immersed in the Hawaiian language and culture. RS: Students at Anuenue (ah-new-new) Hawaiian Immersion School in Honolulu stra

发表于:2019-01-25 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

I'm Nancy Beardsley, filling in for Avi Arditti and Rosanne Skirble. This week on Wordmaster we'll talk about communication -- and miscommunication -- between mothers and daughters. Our guest is Deborah Tannen, a Georgetown University linguistics pro

发表于:2019-01-25 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: acting like an actor to improve your memory. RS: Our guest is Tony Noice, an actor, director, teacher and cognitive researcher - someone who studies how we think. He and his psych

发表于:2019-01-25 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: English teacher Lida Baker explains the use of the words after and before. LIDA BAKER: I'm going to say a few sentences and I just want you to tell me two things: Is the sentence

发表于:2019-01-25 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: advice from a writing coach. RS: Jack Hart is a managing editor at The Oregonian newspaper in Portland. We talked to him last year about the classic writing guide by William Strun

发表于:2019-01-25 / 阅读(44) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

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

发表于:2019-01-25 / 阅读(43) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

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

发表于:2019-01-25 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

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

发表于:2019-01-25 / 阅读(44) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

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

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(74) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

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

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

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

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(107) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

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

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(118) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

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

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(130) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)