AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: a lesson in complaining. RS: English teacher Lida Baker is with us from Los Angeles to discuss a topic suggested by one of our listeners, an English teacher in Iran. His students...

Professor: Hannah has a young daughter named Amber who is in second grade. Today Hannah is going in to talk to Amber's teacher to find out how her daughter has been doing at school. Amber是个让人头疼的孩子，我估计她老师肯定有一大堆...

部门经理Paul Chen和他的上司Sue Krammer要开除一名雇员。 P: Sue, I really need your help with this one. S: Oh? What's the problem? P: I've been asked to fire Tom Smith. S: Oh...yeah...firing someone is hard. I've had to do it many time...

伊朗称17公斤铀已经浓缩纯度到20 Iran Claims 17 KG Uranium Enriched to 20 伊朗原子能组织主席萨利希说，伊朗已经浓缩了17公斤浓度达到20%的铀。联合国等组织加重了对伊朗的制裁，迫使其削减核计划...

斯里兰卡反对联合国人权小组Sri Lanka Opposes UN Human Rights Panel 斯里兰卡反对联合国成立调查小组，调查斯里兰卡在和泰米尔猛虎组织的内战最后几个月中是否发生侵犯人权行为。 斯 里兰卡政府...

It's autumn in New York -- time for an all-new razzle-dazzle season on Broadway, the undisputed capital of the American stage. For over one hundred years, audiences have been going to Broadway shows to be moved and entertained blissfully unaware of a...

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: with the National Museum of the American Indian opening in Washington, we look at Native American influence on the English language. RS: Linguist Marianne Mithun is author of the...

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: the voice of American presidents. RS: Allan Metcalf of the American Dialect Society has just written a timely book. It's called Presidential Voices: Speaking Styles from George Wa...

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: a guide to some political talk in America. This week, reporters asked President Bush about a television commercial that attacked the Vietnam War record of his Democratic opponent,...

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: counting words. RS: If you wanted to show people the 88,000 most common words in English, how would you do it? Jonathan Harris thought of a sentence -- or something that looks lik...