Education Report - Making Friends Not Always Easy for Foreign Students This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A recent story in the Chronicle of Higher Education said many foreign students report feeling lonely or unwelcome in Australia. T...
SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Venus Transits Sun for Last Time This Century JUNE SIMMS: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. Im June Simms. SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: And Im Shirley Griffith. Today, we tell about the planet Venus and what the American...
For Egypt's Coptic Christians, No Easy Choice It's not easy being Christian in Egypt, a minority among the Sunni Muslim majority. But some times are worse than others. For Amal Beshara, the first moments of 2011 were as bad as they come. She was at a...
MADRID, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- Real Madrid temporarily opened up a 13 point lead over FC Barcelona at the top of the La Liga thanks to a very comfortable 4-0 win at home to Racing Santander on Saturday. Despite his side returning to Champions League act...
Words and Their Stories: Easy as Falling Off a Log 词汇典故:易如反掌 Now, the VOA Special English program WORDS AND THEIR STORIES. 这里是美国之音慢速英语词汇典故节目。 Every people has its own way of saying things, its own...
Easy street Out on the street 各位听众,今天我们要讲的两个习惯用语都和「街道」这个字有关。「街道」这个字在英文里就是:Street. Street is spelled s-t-r-e-e-t. Str...
今天李华忙着批改中文班学生的作业。李华会从Larry那儿学到两个常用语:go easy on和 go cold turkey。 LH: 哎!这些学生!看看他们的考卷儿,简直糟透了!也...
It's Not Easy Being a Kid!-儿童英语故事三...
Pulling alongside our drive-up bank window, a woman was not happy with her position. So she backed up and pulled closer. Still not satisfied, she backed away and tried again. After five attempts, she...
It's not my way to love you just when no one's looking. It's not my way to take your hand if I'm not sure, It's not my way to let you see what's going on inside of me, When it's a love you'll not be n...