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EXPLORATIONS - More Than Half of All Languages in the World Are in Danger of Disappearing By Marilyn Christiano Broadcast: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: An
In this Business English Podcast were going to listen to a teleconference between the head office management of a US guitar manufacturer and the manager of their new Latin American plant. Key language structures explained are: diplomatic language and
Sally is talking with her friend, Don. S: Tell me, Don. How come you're from Spain but you can't speak Spanish very well? D: It's not my mother tongue. My father is Spanish and my mother is American.
Pre-Listening Vocabulary spice: a substance used for adding flavour to food pimento: an evergreen tree, named after the Spanish word meaning peppercorn cuisine: a type of food that originates from a certain region flavour: how something tastes Allspi
The Grammar Of Sign Language The word grammar means the inner workings or system of a language. Did you know that sign language has its own grammar system? Just as there are subjects, objects, tenses and parts of speech in written and spoken language
EDUCATION REPORT – June 13, 2002: Latin Language Teaching By Jerilyn Watson Orange High School Latin Club, Pepper Pike, Ohio. (Picture -ohiojcl.org) This is the VOA Special English Education Report.
EDUCATION REPORT - Foreign Language Learning in the United States By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: Thursday, April 22, 2004 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. It seems mor
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 01 August 2007 In our global world, writer David Burke says, Americans must improve their language skills, and should start at an early age. VOA's Mike O'Sullivan spoke with the author, who has taught American slang to
Foundation to Send More American Students to China Christie Civetta is one of thousands of American students abroad in Beijing this year through the 100,000 Strong Initiative, a program that aims to increase the number of Americans studying in China.
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 language of persuasion. RS: Michael Eidenmuller i
I'm Avi Arditti. Rosanne Skirble is away. This week on Wordmaster: Do You Speak American? That's the name of a new book by journalist Robert MacNeil. Mr. MacNeil -- who was born and raised in Canada -- explores how immigration, technology and other f
Joel: So I don't think we've met yet, what is your name? Patricia: Patricia. It's a pleasure to meet you. Joel: You too. Where are you from? Patricia: I'm from Samoa. Joel: Samoa? Where is that? Patricia: It's in the South Pacific north of New Zealan
I'm Avi Arditti. Rosanne Skirble is away. This week on Wordmaster: Do You Speak American? That's the name of a new book by journalist Robert MacNeil. Mr. MacNeil -- who was born and raised in Canada -- explores how immigration, technology and other f
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: May 1, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER we discuss a new book: The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn. RS: The author is Diane Ravitch, a historian
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER -- we take some of the stress out of learning which words to stress in American English. RS: We turn to Lida [lee-da] Baker. She's an instructor at the American Language Center at
By Mohamed Elshinnawi Washington 05 March 2008 The United States is a nation of immigrants with cultural connections around the world. Such diversity helps to spark interest in foreign language immersioninstruction in public schools. Kent Garden Elem
Do you ever go blank when you're trying to spell a word? It happens to me occasionally. When it comes to spelling, I have a problem. I have had to learn the Standard American English whilst living in the U.S. for the past 18 years, but, I'm English.
Guest host Mike O'Sullivan talks with an author (familiar to our longtime listeners) whose newest books use fairy tales to teach foreign languages to American children. David Burke is known as Slangman, and in his earlier books, he translated the lan
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