AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: the language of non-verbal communication. Two writers, Melissa Wagner and Nancy Armstrong, have put together a book of one hundred eight gestures and their various, and sometimes...
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: more advice from English teacher Lida Baker. Lida was with us last week to answer a question from an online English teacher in Manila. It had to do with accent reduction. But it g...
Welcome to WORDMASTER. I'm Adam Phillips, sitting in for Avi Arditti and Rosanne Skirble. See if you can identify what these three sentences have in common: Found true love. Married someone else. Young, skinny: ridiculed. Old, skinny: envied. And one...
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: slang and idioms in American politics. RS: Slangman David Burke in Los Angeles told us a story about one candidate who had no problem with name recognition: DAVID BURKE: Once upon...
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: writing a personal statement for college. RS: Rachel Toor is the author of Admissions Confidential: An Insider's Account of the Elite College Selection Process. She worked for thr...
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: more advice about writing a personal statement for an American college or university. Rachel Toor is the author of Admissions Confidential: An Insider's Account of the Elite Colle...
AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on WORDMASTER: we're going to repeat a segment from two thousand two. It was an interview with an English professor who, after going blind, devoted his time to making the Internet more accessible. As it turned out, t...
AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on WORDMASTER: meet Safwan Abdulsalam Kadoora. He's the director of the English department at Karma. That's an English and French language center that opened in Damascus, Syria, in two thousand six. SAFWAN KADOORA: W...
AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on WORDMASTER: English teaching in Angola. Francisco Matete is president of ANELTA, the Angolan English Language Teachers Association, which came into being five years ago and today has about four hundred members. En...
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: more political terms. RS: New York Times language columnist William Safire is the editor of the newly updated Safire's Political Dictionary, and a former White House speechwriter....
