2023-11-05 Native Americans Work to Keep Sheep Herding Tradition as Climate Changes
Members of the Native American Navajo tribe in Arizona have been raising sheep for over 500 years. The Navajo started working with sheep when Spanish colonists brought the animals to…
2023-11-05 Europeans Can Pay for Ad-free Social Media
Facebook and Instagram users in Europe are getting the option to use the social media services without seeing advertisements. However, they will have to pay for that option. Meta, the…
2023-11-05 Chinese Migration to US Increasing Along Dangerous Path in Panama
The trip through the Darién Gap forest area in Panama has become increasingly popular with migrants thanks to social media. Panamanian officials say, in the first nine months of 2023,…
2023-11-05 Antarctica Was Once Home to Rivers, Forests
Antarctica has not always been a land of ice and snow. Earth’s southernmost continent once was home to rivers and forests full of life. Scientists are using satellite observations and…
2023-11-04 Lyndon Johnson: Complicated
VOA Learning English presents America’s Presidents. Today we are talking about Lyndon Johnson. He was the vice president under John F. Kennedy. Many Americans recognize Johnson from a photograph of…
2023-11-04 ‘Straight from the Horse’s Mouth’
And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English. On today’s show, we will be talking about an animal that is as impressive and beautiful as it is useful…
2023-11-04 This Miami University Is Not in Florida
Valerie Do of Vietnam is in her third year of college at Miami University in the Midwestern U.S. state of Ohio. The school has about 19,000 students, including about 1,000…
2023-11-03 Taylor Swift Headed to This Law school, in Theory
University of South Dakota law professor Sean Kammer’s friends told him they were unsure about the seriousness of his upcoming class on musical performer Taylor Swift. “I understand this sounds…
2023-11-03 Michelangelo’s ‘Secret Room’ to Open for Visitors
Visitors will soon be able to see a long-hidden space inside the Medici Chapel in the Italian city of Florence. The walls of the small space contain drawings that some…
2023-11-03 ‘The Boy on Graves-End Road,’ by Caty Weaver
Editor’s Note: This is a weekly multimedia series of American short stories for English language learners. Each story has video, audio, quizzes, and a lesson plan for teachers. Hope you…
2023-11-03 ‘In Which’ and ‘To Which’
Hello! This week on Ask a Teacher, we answer a question about the use of prepositions with “which.” Question Dear VOA Ask a Teacher, I am Shohei from Japan. I…