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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

Marvel Adds Indigenous Superhero from Canada’s North

A new superhero has been added to Marvel Comics Champions series. Her name is Amka Aliyak. She is known as Snowguard. Amka Aliyak is an Inuit teenager from northern Canada. She comes from Pangnirtung, a town in the territory of Nunavut. Inuit is the

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Number of English Learners in US Schools Keeps Rising The number of English language learners in American public schools continues to rise. About 9.5 percent of public school students were English language learners in 2015, the U.S. Department of Edu

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Researchers have discovered an almost universal word. Huh? You say? Even if you are not a native speaker of English, you probably dont need a translation for Huh? It appears that the word, or a very similar form of it, is used in most of the language

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August the 9th is International Day of the World's Indigenous People. It is a time for the world to understand the problems of indigenous peoples around the world. The day was created by the United Nations General Assembly in 1994. It wanted to stren

VOA慢速英语--澳大利亚拯救濒危语言

Saving a Critically Endangered Language in Australia People in Australia are leading efforts to save a critically endangered language. At one time, an estimated 300 indigenous languages were spoken on the continent. Only about 90 are still spoken tod

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Police in India say there's no plan yet to recover the body of an American missionary. He was killed 10 days ago by indigenous people on a remote island in the Bay of Bengal. The islanders have resisted all outside contact for ce

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China Film Group Corp. announced last Saturday that Xuan Zang has been entered for Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards. 中国电影集团公司于上周六宣布，《大唐玄奘》已经入围第89届学院奖最佳外语影片候选

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The native people of the Louisiana bayous are turning to other indigenous groups that have had to deal with oil industry disasters. Louisiana's Mississippi delta is home to several indigenous tribes that have been living on these bayous for thousands

VOA标准英语2011--Pilot Program Teaches Sarawak Indigenous Children in Mother Tongue

Pilot Program Teaches Sarawak Indigenous Children in Mother Tongue Sarawak is one of two Malaysian states on the island of Borneo. It is home to 28 ethnic groups, each with a distinct language, culture and lifestyle. Many groups are afraid of losing

VOA标准英语2013--Indigenous Peoples Stand Up to Exploitation

Indigenous Peoples Stand Up to Exploitation This month (6-10/12), 600 indigenous leaders gathered in the far north of Norway. They produced a document that called for an end to discrimination and exploitation of their people. The Alta Declaration wil

美国国家公共电台 NPR This New Zealand Band Is Trying To Save Maori Culture One Head Banger At A Time

DAVID GREENE, HOST: This is kind of sad. Did you know that nearly half of the world's 6,000 or so spoken languages are endangered? That's according to the United Nations. Well, in New Zealand, a group of teens is trying to save their endangered tongu

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's getting harder for people to seek asylum in the U.S. Last month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced stricter rules on people fleeing domestic abuse and gang violence. Now some applicants are hoping to increase their ch

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By Nathan King New York City 26 February 2008 The United Nations last year made a landmark declaration on the rights of the world's estimated 370 million indigenous people. And the U.N.'s Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues says thousands of the ind

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A leading Chinese expert has stressed that China's home-grown Beidou Navigation Satellite System demonstrates the necessity for the country to grasp a core technology that is entirely self-developed, after a US ban on a leading Chinese smartphone mak

听播客学英语 121 语言

Last week a woman called Marie Smith Jones died. She was 89 years old and she lived in Alaska in North America. Marie was the last person alive to speak a language called Eyak. Eyak is, or was, one of the native North American languages. Linguists ha

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