클레오파트라
Today we tell about the life of one of the most famous and powerful women in history. She was a goddess, a queen, and a skilled diplomat and negotiator. She was a great politician who knew how to show off her and her country’s power and influence.

영어 발음
Learning a new language is a long, difficult process. This process can become easier if you set goals. Goals help guide language learners and give them reasons to continue studying a language.

막다른 길
There were still big, central streets - often wide boulevards. But branching off were nodules called cul-de-sacs, or streets that dead-ended into little traffic circles.

인공지능
Many researchers use the term artificial intelligence (AI) to describe the thinking and intelligent behavior demonstrated by machines. While AI can be helpful to human beings, scientists warn, it can also be a threat.

밝은 면 보기
Imagine there is a glass of water on a table in front of you. It has water in it but it is not full. How do you describe the glass? Do you say it is half full or half empty?

상황을 잘 파악하다
I’m gonna need help organizing all these packages coming in. If I don’t stay on top of it, I’m going to lose track of which packages came from who.

바비큐
American barbecue is really about taking a tough, fairly inexpensive piece of meat and making it into something tender and succulent and juicy.

특별히 잘 챙겨줘서 고마워
I want to thank you for being so hospitable to my cousins the other day. Even though it was a busy week for you at the office, you really went out of your way for them.

합창단
A choir can describe a group of instruments of the same type, for example a brass choir.

새로운 연주 장소를 찾는 음악가들
Enjoying a musical performance no longer requires a costly ticket or a trip to a theater. These days, musicians are performing in private homes, at hair cutting shops, at airports…even on ferry boats.

물위의 집
Many houseboats include a kitchen, a head - as mariners call a bathroom -, a microwave oven and a television set attached to an outside satellite dish.

꿈같은 얘기로군
Kevin: Yeah, It was huge! Martin: In your dreams! There’s no way you caught a fish that big!

합격과 불합격
Naturally, we all want to do well in school and life. Sometimes we do, sometimes we don't. So, today we are going to talk about both.

간단히 말해서
Jen: So were you able to resolve the issue with Lisa? Jason: It was complicated but to make a long story short, I resolved the issue with Lisa.

더운 날씨에는 날기 어려운 비행기
It is sometimes more difficult to get airplanes off the ground in extremely hot weather. But the problem is not the temperature itself or the humidity. It is the air density that can get in the way.

훌라 후프
The games that Americans play these days often involve ultra-realistic, high-tech video sports and combat simulations. We still dabble with archaic games like solitaire and chess...

세계 지도
Walk into most any classroom, and you will see a large world map hanging somewhere on the wall. Teachers use maps for subjects like geography and social studies.

말을 안 듣다
What’s wrong? My cell phone suddenly began to act up and somehow all my contacts got deleted.

받아쓰기
Students often study listening comprehension in less than interesting, even boring ways, he adds. Transcription, however, provides a fun way to improve one’s listening skills.

큰 의미를 가진다
Well, besides being the first man to step on the moon, we’re from Beaver County where Cape Canaveral is so he means an awful lot to us.