This happens when an official language is used more often and children stop learning the local language of their parents.
VOA: special.2009.12.02
Van Buren had been president for just a few days when an economic crisis and a political storm struck the country.
VOA: special.2009.01.01
It ended when an allied force of American,British,French,German and Japanese soldiers reached Beijing and ended the Boxer occupation.
VOA: special.2010.07.29
Otherwise,he said, there might come a time when an angry public would demand radical and sweeping changes.
VOA: special.2010.05.20
Soldiers often say, We GId the place. And when an area looks good, soldiers may say the area is GI. Strangely,though, GI can also mean poor work, a job badly done.
VOA: special.2010.03.07
"So,when an event like this occurs, it is incumbent upon a Democrat to react quickly and decisively, and Obama failed to do it."
VOA: standard.2010.01.06
President Medvedev arrived in capital city of Makhachkala as two people were killed when an explosion ripped their car apart in a Dagestani village.
VOA: standard.2010.04.01
On Tuesday,Aung San Suu Kyi was convicted of violating her house arrest following an incident in May when an American entered her lakeside home uninvited.
VOA: standard.2009.08.14
But children in developing nations lived under the constant risk of infection until more recently, when an international service club took aim at eliminating the disease.
VOA: standard.2010.08.02
When an old friend moved to Huntington Beach,California - a Pacific coast city nicknamed Surf City,USA - he realized it was time to live his dream.
VOA: standard.2010.08.04
"When an individual is being silenced, we aim to be her voice."
VOA: standard.2010.05.22
And particularly labor market numbers, unemployment, and unemployment lags recovery - so even when an aggregate recovery starts, those numbers are not going to turn around immediately.
VOA: standard.2009.03.10
There are two kinds of strokes. An ischemic stroke happens when a blood vessel in the brain gets blocked.
VOA: special.2009.09.22
It is cut to the chase. She heard that expression when she attended an important meeting of one company.
VOA: special.2010.07.25
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