THIS IS AMERICA - How to Help an Endangered Language BARBARA KLEIN: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. Im Barbara Klein. BOB DOUGHTY: And Im Bob Doughty. This week on our program, we look at efforts to protect threatened languages. An...
Health Report - Language Has Risks for Health Translators This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Translators Without Borders is an American nonprofit group. It provides language services to nongovernmental organizations such as, yes, Doctors...
Technology Rescues Dying Languages In our interconnected world, global languages like English, Spanish and Chinese are increasingly dominant. But there are some 7,000 other languages spoken around the world and linguists say up to half of them are at...
Flora: Can you help me? Im working on this email to Emil and Im having trouble coming up with the right words in French. Andy: My French isnt much better than yours, but Ill give it a shot. Flora: Okay, read this sentence for me. What I want to know...
THIS IS AMERICA - 'Super PACs' and More: Politics, Money and Language STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: And I'm Shirley Griffith. This week on our program, we talk about politics, money...
'Word on Street' Impacted Language in 2011 While 2011 is over, some of the words that came to define the past year are still very much with us, and may be for years to come. Since 2011 was an especially busy year for grassroots political action, many...
Economics Report - Business English Speakers Can Still Be Divided by a Common Language 经济报道 - 英语技能对商业人士尤为重要 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语经济报道。 Business...
Language Link Helps Haitian Teens Adapt to US School Thousands of Haitians sought refuge in the United States after last year's devastating earthquake in Haiti. Many are young people, now enrolled in U.S. schools, surrounded by a new language and cul...
演讲的沟通,并非全靠言语在进行。能够以非言语即所谓的Body Language 和其他为手段来表达各种信息,这已是众人所熟知的事物。根据某项研究显示,70%的沟通可说是以非言语为媒介来传达。...
Georgian TV Beams Russian Language News to Russia Russia and Georgia have had no diplomatic ties since their war several years ago. Georgians currently are reaching out, however, to their much larger neighbor through a new Russian language TV channel...