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tanggal 20 Oktober 2010 11.16
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VOA MAKES ENGLISH LEARNING EASIER FOR CHINESE, FARSI SPEAKERS
New mobile phone apps provide on-the-go access to interactive, online learning program
Washington, D.C., October 20, 2010 –Voice of America's dynamic and cost-free English language teaching program for Chinese and Farsi speakers, goEnglish.me, is now even easier to use with the introduction of new mobile phone apps.
The apps provide on-the-go access to VOA's interactive, online learning program, a fun and effective way to learn contemporary English.
VOA Director Danforth W. Austin says, "For years people around the world have been improving their English by listening to the Special English programs of the Voice of America. These new mobile phone apps expand on that, teaching English in a convenient, user-friendly way for anyone with a mobile phone."
The goEnglish apps are available for both iPhone and Droid devices.
By accessing the self-study program, a user can learn how Americans talk about everyday aspects of their lives, ranging from relationships to shopping to filling out a job application.
The interactive Chinese and Farsi language editions, which are also available online at www.goEnglish.me, cater to English learners of all abilities. The beginner, intermediate and advanced lessons offer access to the latest learning techniques, including voice recognition software, virtual characters and video clips. There are also games and dialogues that guide users through day-to-day situations, and help them practice newly-learned skills.
To find out about other English learning programs at Voice of America, visit our Learning English website at: www.voanews.com/learningenglish/home.
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tanggal 21 Oktober 2010 13.14
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VOA REPORTERS FOLLOW THE TRAIL OF CHINA'S EPIC "LONG MARCH"
VOA Beijing correspondents retrace route of "Long March"
Washington, D.C., October 21, 2010 – After a voyage of 21 days and more than 7,500 kilometers through a transformed Chinese landscape, VOA Beijing correspondents Stephanie Ho and Nan Zhang have retraced the route of Mao Zedong's epic "Long March," one of modern China’s founding legends.
Their journey, documented with maps, words, pictures and video, offer the VOA audience what Stephanie calls, "an introduction to an important side of China that is literally off the beaten path." "I had read about the other side of China every day,” Stephanie says, “but I had to experience it to make a lasting impression. The diversity of the population is staggering."
The route took the VOA journalists through some of China’s poorest and most remote areas, giving them a rare opportunity to see how the country’s 800 million rural residents cope with life in the 21st century.
Stephanie's web presentation, which includes an interview with a "Long March" survivor, begins in Ruijin, the so-called "Red Capital," where Mao's outnumbered Communist forces were based in 1934 before they began their 10,000 kilometer flight from the Nationalist Army they would eventually defeat.
VOA Director Danforth W. Austin says Stephanie and her colleague Nan Zhang, "are part of a new generation of reporters, who bring history to life and tell the stories of everyday people through new-media platforms that are changing the meaning of what it is to be a journalist."
The voyage, which took the two reporters over modern highways and pot-holed rural roads, was, according to Stephanie, "Like being in a different country." "People say Beijing and Washington have more in common than Beijing and a rural village in Guizhou province,” Stephanie says, "Now I believe it." See what she means at www.voanews.com.
The Voice of America, which first went on the air in 1942, is a multimedia international broadcasting service funded by the U.S. Government through the Broadcasting Board of Governors. VOA broadcasts approximately 1,500 hours of news, information, educational, and cultural programming every week to an estimated worldwide audience of more than 125 million people. Programs are produced in 44 languages and are intended exclusively for audiences outside of the United States.
For more information, call VOA Public Relations at (202) 203-4959, or e-mail askvoa@voanews.com.
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