词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Carnival Jargon

Broadcast: May 27, 2004 Memorial Day weekend is almost here, and with it, the unofficial start of America's summer season. Traditionally, Memorial Day is the busiest day in the year for traveling carnivals with their trained animals, games of chance

词汇大师-- Slang in the World of Hooky Bulls

AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on Wordmaster: two more interviews with English teachers in Russia. I was there last month at the invitation of the English Language Office at the American Embassy in Moscow, to talk about VOA's Special English progr

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Slangman: Hand-Related Terms

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: January 30, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- Slangman David Burke is on hand in Los Angeles to give us a hand with some handy slang. Get the idea of this week's topic? Well, yo

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Getting a Job, Part 2: The Intervie

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: July 18, 2002 Re-broadcast on VOA News Now: July 21, 2002 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- surviving a job interview! RS: Here's the first bit of advice from human resources consult

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Slangman: Corporate Crime

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: August 1, 2002 Re-broadcast on VOA News Now: August 4, 2002 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- a timely accounting of some slang related to business fraud. BUSH: Every corporate offic

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Wordtree Reverse Dictionary

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: October 3, 2002 Rebroadcast on VOA News Now: October 6, 2002 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- The Wordtree. It's a reverse dictionary that, through a series of branchings, takes you

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Slangman:'The Ugly Duckling'

SFX: Bird sounds AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER 鈥?with spring time approaching here in the United States our thoughts turn to bird watching. RS: Birds are easy to spot in everyday speech. A hierarchy in an org

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Meet the English Teachers

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: March 25, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and today on Wordmaster -- it's TESOL time! RS: Next week is the thirty-eighth annual convention of the group known as TESOL: Teachers of English to Speakers of Oth

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Epigram Writer

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: September 9, 2004 DAVE ARLINGTON: Every Thursday we bring you another report in our Wordmaster series, looking at American English. Avi Arditti and Rosanne Skirble will be back next week. In their place, we meet a man who

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Language of Broadway

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: September 30, 2004 It's autumn in New York -- time for an all-new razzle-dazzle season on Broadway, the undisputed capital of the American stage. For over one hundred years, audiences have been going to Broadway shows to

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Hip-Hop Slang

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: June 24, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: a map of mother tongues in America. RS: Last week, we told you about americanrhetoric.com, a collection of well-known American speeches.

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Resume and Cover Letter

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: June 3, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble and this week on Wordmaster, advice on getting a job. RS: It's a question several listeners have asked us, so we turned to a human resources consultant for answers. AA

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Wordcount.org

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: September 2, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: counting words. RS: If you wanted to show people the 88,000 most common words in English, how would you do it? Jonathan Harris thoug

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictio

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: July 10, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti, Rosanne Skirble is away. This week on WORDMASTER -- a look at some of the ten-thousand new words and meanings in a popular American dictionary. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary co

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Future of English

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: March 18, 2004 English is fast becoming the language of science around the world, but what is its future among everyday speakers? One expert points out that the percentage of native English speakers is declining globally

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--TESOL Convention

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: March 25, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and today on Wordmaster -- it's TESOL time! RS: Next week is the thirty-eighth annual convention of the group known as TESOL: Teachers of English to Speakers of Oth

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Native American Influence on Englis

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: September 23, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: with the National Museum of the American Indian opening in Washington, we look at Native American influence on the English language

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Lida Baker: Present Perfect Tense

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: August 12, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: practice makes perfect. RS: With us from Los Angeles is English teacher Lida Baker to explain a part of grammar that makes English lea

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

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

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Political Rhetoric in America,Part

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: February 5, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- we continue our discussion of American political rhetoric. RS: The Scripps Survey Research Center at Ohio University says two times