美语听力 English Cafe 05

Today's topics: New Software, Brunch, Oprah's Book Club, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, How to End a Letter or Email, Can vs. Can't Some words from today's podcast: brunch Oprah Winfrey bestselling A Million Little Pieces talk show memoirs civil rights

美语听力 English Cafe 06

Today's topics: Cats, Maps, Health Care in the US, Johnny Cash, Song Lyrics, Use of as if, Getting Your Ya-Yas. Vocabulary in this podcast: putting to sleep meow (cat sound) Medicare Medicaid elderly uninsured diabled low income Walk the Line Golden

美语听力 English Cafe 07

Todays topics: Television in the US, Spelling Bees in Schools, Policy versus Politics, Pronunciation in Minnesota Words: station channel network ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, WB PBS (public television) non-profit Masterpiece Theater contest

美语听力 English Cafe 08

Topics today: Charles Dickens, Night, Dr. Phil, Sundance Film Festival, Donald Trump, Very vs. Really, Pretty vs. Quite Words: Bleak House Fleet Street Press Follow-up Indie Studio To sue Real estate magnate Apprentice Biography

美语听力 English Café 572

Topics: Famous Americans Eli Whitney; The Ziegfeld Follies; ROFL, straight outta, and meme; shack versus shed; to take advantage of versus to seize Words: applied plantation cotton patent to sue license mass production follies revue opulent spectacle

美语听力 English Cafe 282

Topics: The Graduate; Patty Hearst; embarrassed versus ashamed versus awkward; people versus persons; talk to the hand Words: to give (someone) a ride to seduce to have an affair to set (someone) up with magnate notorious to kidnap urban guerrilla fr

美语听力 English Cafe 247

Topics: Psycho and Alfred Hitchcock; The Gettysburg Address; to get the most out of versus to take advantage of; who versus whom; status quo Words: thriller to adapt proprietor swamp to trace turning point cemetery dedication to keep (ones) spirits u

美语听力 English Cafe 245

Topics: The Grand Canyon; Famous Americans: Georgia OKeefe; shanty versus apartment versus tenement; alert the media; now what? Words: canyon steep to erode outdoorsman livestock grazing sightseeing boundary discouraged exhibit magnifying glass lands

美语听力 English Cafe 04

Today's topics: Filming in LA, Howard Stern, Worst Dressed Americans, Lolita, New Macs, Dove or Pigeon?, Color Bracelets, Do you get it?

美语听力 English Cafe 258

Topics: Singing in the Rain; the Federal Reserve; among versus between; of no use Words: musical silent film talking picture leading lady to dub exclusive branch board of directors turbulent to stave off criticism accountability among between of no u

美语听力 English Café 483

Topics: American Presidents-William Howard Taft; deprecated versus obsolete versus outdated; to insist versus to persist; to set (one's) jaw square Words: justice to appoint ally appeal to turn down advisor successor campaigning conservation to rig t

美语听力 English Café 484

Topics: American Movies-Sunset Boulevard; the Borscht Belt and the Chitlin'Circuit; renumeration/remuneration versus reimbursement versus kickback; to print off (copies) versus to photocopy; nitty-gritty Words: narrator scriptwriter to be in dire str

美语听力 English Café 485

Topics: Famous Americans-Charles and Ray Eames; The Black Fives Leagues and The Negro Baseball Leagues; inner and outer versus inside and outside; severely versus seriously Words: architecture fellowship experimental design form fitting plywood splin

美语听力 English Cafe 286

Topics: Ask an American: Louisville Slugger; globe versus sphere versus orb; on/by horseback; to hit ones funny bone; to stub ones toe Words: on average peak production spring training butter churn to prevail Hall of Famer to say it best Louisville S

美语听力 English Cafe 261

Topics: Yelp; Book Review: The Road; advocate versus lawyer versus attorney; any; salmon and count/mass nouns Words: yelp social networking profile review recourse escapism spare apocalypse deserted dog-eat-dog to grip quotation mark advocate lawyer

美语听力 English Cafe 58

Topics: Table manners in the U.S., Washington, D.C., easygoing, down to earth, to put someone in harms way, to take a shot at someone, inquiry Words: to say grace forearm napkin lap to slurp to burp to chew delicious mayor judicial veteran easygoing

美语听力 English Cafe 57

Topics: Woodstock Music Festival, Affirmative Action, hands-on vs. hand-off, to struggle, how to ask for a taxi, May I vs. Can I, to carpool Words: gathering overdose national anthem shiny affirmative remedy to be admitted race gender ethnicity rever

美语听力 English Cafe 56

Topics: Day of the Dead, Desperate Housewives, work vs. job. vs. occupation, older vs. elder Words: saint grave shrine skull desperate housewife suburbs soap opera melodramatic Emmy Award work job occupation older elder

美语听力 English Cafe 55

Topics: Genealogy, Bill Cosby, to get down on your knees vs. to get down on one knee Words: blood relative miniseries ancestor to trace your family tree hyphenated American cemetery birth certificate Mormons stand-up comedian to tell a joke album car

美语听力 English Cafe 54

Topics: Houston, who Americans trust, to get off ones soapbox, layover vs. transfer, blond vs. blonde Words: gulf oil wells metropolitan area port cargo unload mission dome occupation clergy to get off ones soapbox to hog the floor layover transfer b