The URL has been copied to your clipboard Learning English use a limited vocabulary and are read at a slower pace than VOA's other English broadcasts. Previously known as Special English.

It was a quiet voice in the night in southern Rhodesia, a radio broadcast. It let in the world: a world beyond my family’s ...

It was a quiet voice in the night in southern Rhodesia, a radio broadcast. It let in the world: a world beyond my family’s ...

The state’s population of English learners has grown 25 percent since 2019, a dramatic uptick fueled by the large number of ...

Over the 44 years since my release as a hostage of the Iranian regime, I have witnessed firsthand the unmet aspirations of the Iranian people and the vibrant, if often painful, struggles of the ...

Year after year, MCAS results in school systems with high populations of English learners showed that students didn’t ...

I never had formal English training. Everything I learned came from programs like Voice of America’s Special English and Talk ...

The code has been copied to your clipboard. The URL has been copied to your clipboard VOA1 is the Voice of America’s 24/7 English language music network. Hear the freshest cuts from chart-toppers ...