2020-02-20 所属栏目:AS IT IS

A passenger jet landed in the Syrian city of Aleppo Wednesday from Damascus. It was the first commercial flight between Syria's two largest cities since 2012. Yet near Aleppo, gov

2020-02-19 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Vacationers, nature lovers and other people are using their cameras to document the effects of extreme high tides. By doing so, these men and women are helping scientists predict w

2020-02-18 所属栏目:AS IT IS

The oil industry in South Sudan has left land with hundreds of open holes containing poison waste. In the water and soil, there are poisonous chemicals and heavy metals including m

2020-02-17 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Dino Impagliazzo cuts onions like a professional cook. The Italian man makes a great vegetable soup, but most of his longtime "customers" can't even pay for a piece of bread.Worki

2020-02-16 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Vegetarianism is growing in popularity in a lot of countries.And now, South Africa is one of them.Today, more and more South Africans are experimenting with the vegetarian way of l

2020-02-15 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Many people write to us here at VOA Learning English with this question:Question: How can I improve my English pronunciation?Answer:Last week on our program, we talked about settin

2020-02-14 所属栏目:AS IT IS

On a recent Everyday Grammar program, we talked about the phrase "be willing to." For example, you might say, "She was willing to travel during the rainy season." The adjective "wi

2020-02-13 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Uros Trainovic remembers when his small village in eastern Serbia was home to about 200 families.Now, over 60 years later, his village of Blagojev Kamen is a kind of ghost town. On

2020-02-12 所属栏目:AS IT IS

The Philippines has informed the United States that it is ending a security agreement that permits American forces to train in the country.A spokesman for Philippine President Rodr

2020-02-11 所属栏目:AS IT IS

United Nations agencies warn that the widespread custom of female genital mutilation comes at a big cost, both in human and economic terms. U.N. officials are calling for an end to

2020-02-10 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Luis Alves da Cruz awoke in the middle of the night. He heard the sounds of loud activity in the Paraguayan prison where he lived. Later, he told police that he saw a group of othe

2020-02-09 所属栏目:AS IT IS

A large and unusual tropical fruit is becoming more popular in the United States.The jackfruit is native to India. The big, spiky fruit grows in parts of Asia, South America and th

2020-02-08 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Many people want to sound more like native English speakers. So they send questions about pronunciation to us here at VOA Learning English. We often get asked:Question:"How can I i

2020-02-07 所属栏目:AS IT IS

The Fast and the Furious films, a series of car-racing movies, often describe a product called NOS, short for nitrous oxide. Nitrous oxide is a fuel that racers use to give more po

2020-02-06 所属栏目:AS IT IS

At least 138 people deported to El Salvador from the United States in recent years were later killed, a rights group claims in a new report.Human Rights Watch released the report o

2020-02-05 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Animals rule the countryside at the "Animal Paradise" sanctuary, 75 kilometers outside Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires.The sanctuary is a labor of love - something being operate

2020-02-04 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Americans have been hearing more about brain injuries after an Iranian missile attack on United States forces in Iraq.The missiles targeted an air base were U.S. and coalition troo

2020-02-01 所属栏目:AS IT IS

This week we continue our answer to a question from Nga, a university student in Vietnam.Question: How can I improve my English listening skill?Answer:Dear Nga,Last time, we talked

2020-01-31 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Hi everyone! Thanks for listening to Everyday Grammar.

2020-01-30 所属栏目:AS IT IS

The Hezhen are one of China's smallest ethnic minority groups. Early Hezhen people developed methods for making clothes, bedding and thread out of fish skin. For that reason, they

2020-01-29 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Zachariah Mohammed's living room is filled with things he does not own.He pays $200 a month for the couch, side table, bar cart, dining table and four chairs in his living room. T

2020-01-28 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp prayed and cried Monday as they marked the 75th anniversary of its liberation. The Soviet army freed the prisoners there on January 2

2020-01-27 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Have you ever wondered how much of the planet's resources it takes to make one piece of clothing? Experts have the answer to that and other questions."So for example it would take

2020-01-26 所属栏目:AS IT IS

For years, many Americans have thought of owning their own home as part of the American dream.But the idea of whether that includes dividing a single family home into two will soon

2020-01-25 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Today we answer a question from Vietnam.Question: How can I improve my English listening skill? – Nga, VietnamAnswer:Dear Nga,First, thank you for writing and asking your que