2024-10-06 Japan’s Kojima Has History of Making Blue Jeans
In the Japanese town of Kojima, the main road is named Jeans Street. This street is where people from around the world come to visit. The drink machines at the…
2024-10-05 Is ‘Pie in the Sky’ Just a Dream?
And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English. On this program, we explore words and expressions in the English language. We give examples, notes on usage, and sometimes,…
2024-10-04 Spanish Scientist Uses Bacteria to Repair 18th-century Artworks
Spanish scientist Pilar Bosch has found a way to use bacteria to repair 18th-century paintings. Bosch, a microbiologist, tells Reuters she got the idea for the method while considering possibilities…
2024-10-04 A Municipal Report by O. Henry
Our story today is called “A Municipal Report.” It was written by O. Henry and first published in 1904. Here is Shep O’Neal with the story. It was raining as…
2024-10-04 Obviously and Apparently
Hello! This week on Ask a Teacher, we answer a question from Martha about the usage of two adverbs commonly used in spoken English. Question Dear Teacher, I’m wondering if…
2024-10-03 Argentine Town Struggles with Parrot Invasion
The Argentine town of Hilario Ascasubi near the country’s Atlantic coast has a problem not many places have ever had. It has too many parrots. Biologists say thousands of the…
2024-10-03 Moving Homeless People to Shelter Is Not Easy
Edgar Tapia works on the Homeless Outreach Team of San Francisco, California. He goes to places where people are living in the streets and tells them there is space for…
2024-10-03 How Much Do You Know about Quantifiers?
For VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. Today we are going to talk about different ways of expressing quantity in English. A quantifier is a word or number that…
2024-10-02 Short Corn Is Growing Stronger in US Midwest
Fields of tall corn plants are a common thing to see in the Midwest United States in late summer. They are as much a part of rural America as big…
2024-10-02 Everest Growing Taller than Expected
Mount Everest, standing 8.85 kilometers above sea level, is Earth’s tallest mountain. And Mount Everest is still growing. Mount Everest and the rest of the Himalayas are continuing on an…
2024-10-02 US Seeks Ban on Chinese, Russian Tech for Self-driving Vehicles
The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden has proposed a ban on the sale of self-driving vehicles in the U.S. using Chinese or Russian technologies. The proposal was recently announced…