I think it is a combination of a very,very distinct special language on one hand and then on the other, she has really a story to tell about growing up in a dictatorship but also growing up as a minority in another country and also growing up sort of a stranger for your own family.

VOA: standard.2009.10.08

She did for a little while. Then she put her shoes back on and put her old stockings into her bag.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

Mail was usually carried west on ships that sailed around the bottom of South America and then north to California.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Back then,there was much hope that humans would return soon and make a home on Earth's only natural satellite.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

Then Miguel Algarin and the others were offered a nearby building on Third Street between Avenues B and C.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

But she realized then that his mind would forever be on the march, always requiring something newer, better and more perfect.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

By then,Lincoln was dead. On April fourteenth,eighty sixty-five, Southern sympathizer and actor John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in Ford's Theatre.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

Then they rubbed the clothes on flat pieces of wood, squeezed out the water and hung each piece to dry.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

Then,with much effort, he slowly wrote the divorce decree on half a sheet of paper and copied it on the other.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

"Well,first we go to church, then we come home on Christmas Eve and then we open our presents.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

Then the opera will move on to Calgary,Canada and the California cities of San Diego and San Francisco.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

Then,on Friday,she met in Geneva with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to discuss arms control and other issues.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

The computer then takes the signal and gives the driver spoken directions on how to drive the car to avoid an accident.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

Or,they place long thin rolls of clay on top of each other and then make them smooth.

VOA: special.2009.09.09