[00:00.00]2 Pronunciation [00:04.79]Listen and say. [00:07.84]What is it? [00:09.28]What are the stories about? [00:11.91]Why was she clever? [00:13.99]Then what happened? [00:17.55]3 Listen and tick. [00:21.03]Tick''the books that Gu Ming likes. [00...
[00:00.00]Module 3 A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS [00:05.57]UNIT 1 This book is interesting. [00:09.08]1 Listen and read.Then say. [00:13.31]What are you doing,Zhang Hai? [00:15.12]I'm reading. [00:16.19]This book is interesting. [00:18.00]What is it? [00...
South Africa has joined the global trend of lowering interest rates to combat the current economic slowdown. The move is an abrupt reversal for a country that has been raising interest rates for years to control inflation. The change signals that Af...
It is another nervous day on the trading floors in Europe as various European banks dropped interest rates again. The move is designed to address fears that Europe could get caught up in a deep and difficult recession, spanning all of 2009. Presiden...
European central banks have again cut interest rates to lessen the blow of what many experts say will be a deep economic recession. VOA's Michael Bowman reports from Washington, where U.S. economic statistics released Thursday pointed to a dramatic...
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The Federal Reserve, the U.S. central bank, on Wednesday cut short-term interest rates in an effort to boost the slowing economy. VOA's Barry Wood reports it was the eighth cut in the overnight federal funds rate in the past year. United States Fede...
Asia's stock markets are calming down after days of heavy selling. Economists and market analysts say coordinated interest rate cuts in the United States and other countries helped steady investor nerves. But, as Ron Corben reports from Bangkok, man...
Over the course of American history, several religious sects and utopian societies have flowered, only to fade away. But out in the country in 28 U.S. states, a group that is deliberately living in a 19th-century time warp is prospering. The Amish d...
After steadily cutting interest rates for much of the past year, the U.S. central bank has decided to keep them unchanged, while signaling concerns about inflation that could trigger interest rate hikes in the future. VOA's Michael Bowman reports fr...