Today on Ask a Teacher, we answer a question from Valens in Rwanda. Question: Please explain how to use gonna. Valens, Rwanda Answer: Dear Valens, You probably hear native English speakers on television and in movies using reduced forms of words all...
From VOA Learning English, this is American Stories. Our story is called The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky. It was written by Stephen Crane. Today, we will hear the second and final part of the story. Dont know whether there will be a fight or not, answe...
Can Australias Election Winner Energize a Slowing Economy? Australians have a choice between tax cuts and greater public spending when they vote in general elections on Saturday. The elections give voters what has been described as the clearest choic...
Report: Amazon Boxing Machines Work Much Faster than Humans There have been many reports in recent years that warn of future job losses as machines replace humans in many industries. Many companies, however, have denied they plan to use robots to rep...
Google Announces New Privacy Tools, Drops Price of New Pixel Phone Google has announced new privacy tools designed to help protect personal data. It has also launched a much lower-cost Pixel phone. The announcements came on the first day of Googles I...
Tyrannosaurus Rex Developed from a Child-Sized Dinosaur Historys most frightening dinosaur, the Tyrannosaurus rex, came from a long line of smaller creatures. Scientists have identified a new relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex, also known as T. rex. S...
Scientists Create New Plastic that Could Be Fully Recyclable Plastic remains one of the most-used materials for making many of the things we use in our everyday lives. Things made of plastic can be very strong and last a long time. They also do well...
Strong Sense of Smell May Be Linked to Longer Life Older adults with a poor sense of smell may die sooner than those who have a better sense of smell, a new study suggests. 一项新的研究表明，嗅觉较差的老年人可能比嗅觉较好的老年...
Doctors Operate on the Brain to Treat Drug Addiction Patient Number One is a thin man with all the hair removed from his head. Years of drug use cost him his wife, his money and his self-respect. Now, he meets with a surgeon who will operate on him i...
In some languages, speakers say each word in a sentence with equal stress. That is true for Japanese, for example. But, as you know, that is not true for English. If you are listening to this program, you just heard me add stress to the word not to h...
US Schools Consider New Methods for Dealing with Active Shooters Americans are remembering students who died in recent weeks while trying to stop gunmen at two schools in the United States. Some people have praised the students for their actions, cal...
New Words Help Bring Back Native Languages Native Americans spoke as many as 300 languages at one time in history. But centuries of conflict, forced removal and forced assimilation killed half of the languages. Bringing back a dead language is a big...
American, British Teams Share $10 Million XPRIZE Award A California company and a British-based group are sharing a $10 million award for developing programs to help children teach themselves how to read. The two winners are the Kitkit School, based...
Trumps Immigration Plan Values Skills, Education over Family Ties American President Donald Trump has offered a proposal to reform the countrys immigration system. 美国总统川普提出了一项改革该国移民制度的提案。 Trump says the p...
Now, the VOA Learning English program Words and Their Stories. On todays program we talk about the word field. But which one? There are many different kinds of fields. First, we will talk about fields in which you can work. A common question when you...
