词汇大师-- Why Some Speeches Just Float Away on the Air

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: from an interview on C-SPAN television, political pollster and strategist Frank Luntz talks about his book Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear. RS: At on

词汇大师-- No Need to Freak Out About Some Idioms

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble. This week on WORDMASTER: we're back with A. C. Kemp from slangcity.com. She calls it the online home of American slang. RS: We're talking about frequently used terms that her international students in her cla

词汇大师-- The Long and Short of Cornering the Market

I'm Adam Phillips for WORDMASTER, sitting in for Roseanne Skirble and Avi Arditti. Today we look at the jargon of international finance. With giant American corporations leading the drive toward the globalization of business, English has become the d

英语单词大师：Adjectives

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- telling less, and showing more. RS: Adjectives are words that modify or describe nouns. But here's how a lot of writers and writing teachers describe adjectives: in a word, over

英语单词大师：English Dictionary

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- evasive maneuvers in American English. RS: Listening to a conversation on a train one day got Maggie Balistreri thinking. She became interested in the ways that Americans can sa

英语单词大师：Food-Related Slang

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: a fresh look at a topic we did with Slangman David Burke in Los Angeles five years ago this month: food-related slang. This time, he's whipped up one of his exclusive stories base

英语单词大师：Old Slang

MUSIC: Syncopated Clocks/Leroy AndersonAA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- time for some slang! This past week, the United States went off Daylight Savings Time and onto Standard Time for the next six months. So we

英语单词大师：Military Terms

AA: This is Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble. This week on Wordmaster ... some military terms that have come into civilian slang. RS: Sanya Aina, a listener in Lagos, Nigeria, is writing a book about the plight of peacekeepers in Sierra Leone and is

英语单词大师：Health Slang

AA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER -- wishing you good health over the holidays, with Slangman David Burke. RS: Once again, just for our listeners, Slangman David Burke has rewritten a popular childrens fairy tale to

英语单词大师：Memory Improvement

AA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER 鈥?some ways to help you improve your memory. ELDH: We dont forget, we just havent learned it in the first place.RS: Thats Wendi Eldh. Shes a communications trainer who teaches mem

英语单词大师：Sound Change1

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: the sounds of change. RS: If you want a good example of how language changes, just picture a mouse. Are you thinking of a rodent -- or a device for moving the cursor on a computer

英语单词大师：Lost for Words

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER some ways to help you improve your memory. ELDH: We don't forget, we just haven't learned it in the first place. RS: That's Wendi Eldh. She's a communications trainer who teaches m

英语单词大师：Broadway

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: a track from the original Broadway cast recording of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. RS: The show is a musical satire of spelling competitions and the pressure to go t

英语单词大师：Hawaiian Language

Today on Wordmaster, Rosanne Skirble takes us to a school in America's Pacific island state, Hawaii, where students are immersed in the Hawaiian language and culture. RS: Students at Anuenue (ah-new-new) Hawaiian Immersion School in Honolulu straddle

英语单词大师：Heritage Speakers

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster, Musa Nushi, a 27-year-old Iranian with a master's degree in English teaching from Tehran University. MUSA NUSHI: English is in high demand in Iran because lots of people are going

英语单词大师：2 Young Teachers

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: meet two young English teachers. One is from the United States, the other from Uzbekistan. RS: The American is a native English speaker who also speaks Arabic. He teaches a conver

英语单词大师：improve memory

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: some ways to help you improve your memory. ELDH: We don't forget, we just haven't learned it in the first place.RS: That's Wendi Eldh. She's a communications trainer who teaches m

英语单词大师：Greetings

I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: we say hello again to English teacher Lida Baker in Los Angeles to talk about greetings in America. AA: So now typically, if someone says 'how are you doing?' ... RS: Yeah, typically

英语单词大师：Forget the Gunplay

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: palindromes aplenty. RS: A palindrome is something that reads the same backwards or forwards. Palindromes make us think of Janus, the Roman god with one face looking forward, anot

英语单词大师：Writing Prompt for Teens

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: encouraging high school students to write about the issues they want the next U.S. president to address. RS: That is the aim right now of the National Writing Project, a federally