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...
AA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble and this week on WORDMASTER -- Predicting New Words: The Secrets of Their Success.RS: Thats the title of a new book by our friend at the American Dialect Society, Allan Metcalf. METCALF: The most successful new...
AA: Im Avi Arditti, Rosanne Skirble has the week off. This week on Wordmaster -- making the Web more welcoming to the disabled. John Slatin is director of the Institute for Technology and Learning at the University of Texas at Austin. He travels near...
AA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble. This week on Wordmaster -- what to do when theres only one you.RS: Were talking about forms of address. Speakers of other languages may be used to having two ways to address someone -- one formal, the other in...
AA: Im Avi Arditti, Rosanne Skirble is away. With me this week on Wordmaster is our English teacher friend Lida Baker in Los Angeles, to talk about a few verbs that can cause trouble for even the best-trained non-native speakers. BAKER: I got the ide...
SFX: Sounds of seagulls, ship hornAA: Im Avi Arditti, with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- the catch of the day, terms from the sea. Lots of nautical expressions have washed ashore into everyday English. Alan Hartley researches them f...
AA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- a timely accounting of some slang related to business fraud. BUSH: Every corporate official who has chosen to commit a crime can expect to face the consequences. No more easy mon...
AA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- surviving a job interview! RS: Heres the first bit of advice from human resources consultant Sharon Armstrong: Its not just words you have to think about, but also how you expres...
AA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble and this week on Wordmaster, advice on getting a job. RS: Its a question several listeners have asked us, so we turned to a human resources consultant for answers. AA: Sharon Armstrong runs a company that helps...
AA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- TOEFL tips! RS: Each year close to one million people around the world take the TOEFL -- the Test of English as a Foreign Language. Since its required to get into many colleges a...
AA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: a special report about the linguistic challenges that health care workers face in the United States as a result of the nation growing immigrant population. RS: A recent study found...
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster, meet the modals! RS: Modals are words like can, could, will, would, may, might, and must. The list goes on. And they can be tricky to learn. AA: We get more of an introduction fro...
AA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster, some whimsy to liven up your vocabulary! RS: Slangman David Burke brings us some words and phrases that, in most cases, have been around a long time, and are just plain fun to say....
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- etymology meets entomology! The new movie Spider-Man inspired us to untangle some spider-related expressions. RS: Meet a real spider man, not the comic book superhero. Al York i...
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- how to make a request, as in, Could you help us out?RS: That's what we asked our friend Lida Baker. She teaches in the American Language Center at the University of California a...
