http://learningenglish.voanews.com/archive/learningenglish-programs-radio-this-is-america/latest/978/1580.html Learn English as you read and listen to a weekly show about the United States and American life. Stories are written at the intermediate and upper-beginner level and are read one-third slower than regular VOA English. Free texts, MP3s and PDFs. http://www.voanews.com/img/voa/rssLogo_VOA.gif http://learningenglish.voanews.com/archive/learningenglish-programs-radio-this-is-america/latest/978/1580.html en-US-LEARN 2012 - VOA 60 Fri, 24 May 2013 20:40:35 +0000 Pangea CMS – VOA From VOA Learning English, welcome to This Is America. I’m Avi Arditti.   And I’m Kelly Jean Kelly. This week, learn about a city in the South that helped give the world many kinds of American music. Come with us to Memphis, Tennessee... A Future President and a New City A future president of the United States helped build Memphis. Andrew Jackson and two other men settled the city in 1819. They chose the place where the Wolf River flowed into the Mississippi River. Jackson named ... http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/blues-country-soul-memphis-tennessee/1662565.html http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/blues-country-soul-memphis-tennessee/1662565.html Mon, 20 May 2013 00:30:39 +0000 This is America http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/blues-country-soul-memphis-tennessee/1662565.html#relatedInfoContainer Welcome to This Is America from VOA Learning English. I’m Kelly Jean Kelly.   And I’m Mario Ritter.  Today we talk about the city of Boston, Massachusetts. Boston has been in the news recently because of the two bombs that exploded during the Boston Marathon on April 15. Boston is also a popular place for visitors from the United States and around the world—partly because the city played an important role in American history.   Three people died and more than 260 people were ... http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/boston-tourism/1658107.html http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/boston-tourism/1658107.html Mon, 13 May 2013 00:30:48 +0000 This is America http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/boston-tourism/1658107.html#relatedInfoContainer Welcome to This Is America with VOA Learning English. Today we visit one of America’s great national parks. It is a place of strange and silent beauty. As beautiful as this place is, its name provides evidence of very real danger. Come with Phoebe Zimmerman and Steve Ember to Death Valley. Death Valley is a land of beautiful yet dangerous extremes. There are mountains that reach more than three thousand meters into the sky. There is a place called Badwater that is the lowest area ... http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/death-valley-national-park/1653515.html http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/death-valley-national-park/1653515.html Sun, 05 May 2013 22:30:18 +0000 This is America http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/death-valley-national-park/1653515.html#relatedInfoContainer April is National Poetry Month in the United States. http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/april-national-poetry-month/1649103.html http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/april-national-poetry-month/1649103.html Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:00:38 +0000 USA http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/april-national-poetry-month/1649103.html#relatedInfoContainer