AA: I'm Avi Arditti, with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- the catch of the day, terms from the sea. Lots of nautical expressions have washed ashore into everyday English. Alan Hartley researches them for the Oxford English Dictionary...
Talofa This week is Samoan Language Week. We need to remember that Samoan is the third most common language in New Zealand, after English and Maori. A large number of Samoan people live in New Zealand. We have a census every five years and the last c...
This is Maori Language week, from July 27th to August 2nd. Every year, for the last 30 years, we have celebrated Maori Language week. This is the time to learn Te Reo Maori. You can learn 100 Maori words from the website: www.koreromaori.co.nz Maori...
This week, starting today, is New Zealand Sign Language Week, celebrating the language that is used by the Deaf community. Just three years ago, NZ Sign Language (NZSL) became the third official language in New Zealand, after English and Maori. This...
BOB DOUGHTY:This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. Im Bob Doughty. FAITH LAPIDUS: And Im Faith Lapidus. Today, we tell about efforts by American scientists to communicate with dolphins. We also tell about applications programs for compu...
International Mother Language Day (IMLD) is observed every year by member states of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). It started in 1999 with the purpose of promoting linguistic and cultural diversity and...
Beginners. Mango languages is an internet language learning program(me) that we get for free through our local library. I want my children to learn Spanish very well, so the program will be a useful tool to use at home on our computer. My three boys...
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: What does prenup mean? That's a question from listener Muhammad Ali in Karachi, Pakistan. RS: A prenup is a prenuptial agreement, a contract between two people before they marry a...
AA: I'm Avi Arditti, and this week on WORDMASTER: choosing the right language for advertising. The December issue of the Journal of Consumer Research contains a paper by Rohini Ahluwalia at the University of Minnesota and Aradhna Krishna at the Unive...
Where would we be without language? Wed all be in our own worlds and wed never really have a life. Can you imagine never talking to anyone? Of course if there was no language, we wouldnt be able to use body language or sign language. The fact that we...