Favorite Website

Favorite Website that Helps to Learn English

  We all know that it is now so easy for us to learn English. We just have computer and internet, then we can learn English easily. I’m one of English learners who always search websites that teach English. And today I would like to recommend one website that I've found. I think it is really helpful. This website is www.voanews.com I like it!!

        
         I'll show you why I like it. But before that, I would like to briefly give you this website background.

  voanews is Voice of America (VOA) is the official external broadcast institution of the United States federal government. The slogan of voanews is “A Trusted Source of News & Information” It is one of five civilian U.S. international broadcasters working under the umbrella of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG). VOA provides a wide range of programming for broadcast on radio and TV and the Internet outside of the U.S. in 44 languages. VOA produces about 1,500 hours of news and feature programming each week for an estimated global audience of 123 million people, "to promote freedom and democracy and to enhance understanding through multimedia communication of accurate, objective, and balanced news, information and other programming about America and the world to audiences overseas."^[1] Its day-to-day operations are supported by the International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB). A 1976 law signed by President Gerald Ford requires VOA to "serve as a consistently reliable and authoritative source of news.” The VOA Charter states: "VOA news will be accurate, objective and comprehensive.” VOA radio and television broadcasts are distributed by satellite, cable and on FM, AM, and shortwave radio frequencies. They are streamed on individual language service websites, social media sites and mobile platforms. VOA has more than 1,200 affiliate and contract agreements with radio and television stations and cable networks worldwide.

          There are 4 main features on this website; news, programs, video, and learning English. If you click on News one, you will see news from all over the world. It is separated into the continents; USA, Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, etc. The updated news are provided in this feature, the people who are curious to know what is going on in this world must love this feature.