가까운 친구들을 초대하고 싶군요
Today we are celebrating your birthday! You don’t have to. But if you insist…. How would you like to celebrate your birthday? A cake and ice-cream party will be good enough.

서브프라임 모기지
Subprime mortgages are loans to people who may not have enough money to repay them. These and other risky housing loans are often grouped with other mortgages and sold as debt investments.

플라스틱병을 신발로
A company in San Francisco, California, has found a way to turn used plastic bottles into women’s shoes.

새들의 리스닝
Wild animals are known to listen to each other for warnings that predators are near. Some birds, for example, flee when neighbors make a loud noise to announce a snake’s presence.

작은 독립 서점
Small, independent bookstores in neighborhoods across the United States are places to discover new books and make friends.

명심해
Noah: Well, you should bear in mind that kids are out of school.

하루 몇 걸음이 좋은가?
Older women who walk a little over three kilometers each day might live longer than less active women of the same age, a new study suggests.

코뿔소를 위한 발레
In South Africa, protecting the environment and cultural heritage are at the center of the yearly Ballet in the Bush show.

대도시 클러스터
Now Americans are on the move again, often out of cities into adjacent suburbs and far into the countryside to distant subdivisions and booming regional cities.

날 좀 그만 괴롭혀!
Hey Mike let’s go to the movies right now. I can’t right now. I’m working on a new job application.

헛간
In the days when America was mostly an agricultural nation, the first thing a farmer built after he bought a new spread was not a farmhouse but a barn.

100살 넘은 사이클 선수
World records can be set even if you are over 100 years old. Robert Marchand was born in 1911 in northern France. He enjoys riding a bicycle, and started cycling seriously when he was in his 60s.

낚시
Fishing is a popular outdoor activity you can do in lots of different places. You can go ice fishing, deep sea fishing, or fly fishing in a river, to name a few examples.

큰 인상을 남기다
Jen: Hi Josh, how are you? Josh: Great, thanks! Jen: Good. What did you do today? Josh: We went to the Holocaust Museum.

지구 내부 지도
Scientists in Australia want to build what they describe as a “downward looking telescope” to look for mineral wealth under the Earth’s surface.

전성기
When you have your day in the sun, you have achieved the highest possible level of success.

두루미
Every year in the middle of March, one of the world's greatest wildlife migrations stops in central Nebraska.

하이파이브 하자!
Jason! Congratulations on making the soccer team! Give me five! Thanks! I am so happy about it! We have our first game next weekend.

건초를 묶는 철사
Today, we are going on a make-believe trip to the countryside to learn about a word that comes from something used on a farm -- haywire.

이중언어 사용자가 더 똑똑한가?
In the early nineteen fifties, researchers found that people scored lower on intelligence tests if they spoke more than one language. Research in the sixties found the opposite. Bilingual people scored higher than monolinguals, people who speak only one language. So which is it?