Environment May Affect Development of Language There are about 7,000 languages in the world, and they are constantly evolving and changing. But it's a bit of a mystery why languages change the way they do. Anthropologist Caleb Everett of the Universi...
Smithsonian Folklife Festival Showcases Vanishing Languages As soon as she heard the music, festival goer Patricia Joseph knew she had to dance. I always felt like dancing when I heard this kind of music, and I always felt restrained. But this was so...
New York Speaks Your Language, No Matter What It Is With hundreds of languages and dialects spoken from around the world, few cities are as diverse as New York. New York is the capital of the world, where we live together in peace, said Ernesto Arias...
THIS IS AMERICA - How to Help an Endangered Language BARBARA KLEIN: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. BOB DOUGHTY: And I'm Bob Doughty. This week on our program, we look at efforts to protect threatened languages....
EXPLORATIONS - How English Evolved Into a Modern Language This is Steve Ember. And this is Shirley Griffith with the VOA Special English program, EXPLORATIONS. Today we present the second of our two programs about the history of the English Language....
EDUCATION REPORT – June 13, 2002: Latin Language Teaching By Jerilyn Watson Orange High School Latin Club, Pepper Pike, Ohio. (Picture -ohiojcl.org) This is the VOA Special English Education Report....
Lesson 34 Isn't It Good to Speak a Foreign Language? Text A "You really are a lucky dog. " Many peole assume that admission into the Institute of Foreign Trade means not only a farewell to "unemployme...
Sally is talking with her friend, Don. S: Tell me, Don. How come you're from Spain but you can't speak Spanish very well? D: It's not my mother tongue. My father is Spanish and my mother is American....
A painter hangs his or her finished pictures on a wall, and everyone can see it. A composer writes a work, but no one can hear it until it is performed. Professional singers and players have great res...
DIALOG 22 laurance--I give up!I simply can't learn French! soony--Why do you say that?I think you're making a lot of progress. laurance--No,I'm not.I try and try and I still can't speak it very well....