VOA Podcasts

Learning English programs use a limited vocabulary and short sentences. They are read at a slower pace than VOA's other English broadcasts. Our broadcasts were formerly known as Special English.

Arts & Culture is our weekly program about music, pop culture, society and life.

Go beyond the headlines with VOA's Flashpoint Ukraine. Each weekday at 1935 UTC, VOA's Steve Miller puts the latest development into global context with interviews and analysis.

New developments in science, space exploration, environment and technology

How Americans use English grammar in everyday conversation.

Learning English is VOA’s multimedia source of news and information for millions of English learners worldwide. Learning English began as Special English, which Voice of America launched in 1959. Special English newscasts and features were a primary fixture of VOA’s international shortwave broadcasts for more than half a century. In 2014, our line of products was expanded to include more English teaching materials, and the service became known as Learning English.

Voice of America is an international news and broadcast organization serving Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia, the Middle East and Balkan countries

Learn English as you read and listen to news and feature stories about health, medical and lifestyle topics.

As It Is takes a daily look at issues in the news in the United States and around the world.

A short video explaining an expression used in American English

A short video explaining a word or term used in news stories

Idaacadda Galabnimo waxaad ku maqashaan wararka ugu danbeeya ee caalamka, barnaamijyo, ciyaaro, wareysiyo iyo waliba heeso. Jadwalka: Maalinle Wakhtiga maxalliga ah: 16:00 UTC, xilliga: 1300 Muddada: 60

Do you have a question about English? Go ahead and Ask a Teacher.

Idaacadda habeenimo ee Evening Edition waxaad ku maqashaan wararkii ugu danbeeyey ee Soomaaliya iyo Caalamka, barnaamijyo iyo wareysiyo ka turjumaya dhacdooyinka ka dhacaya daafaha Dunida. Jadwalka: Maalinle Wakhtiga maxalliga ah: 20:00 UTC, xilliga: 1700 Muddada: 60

Idaacadda Subaxnimo ee Saaka iyo Caalamka waxaad ku maqashaa wararkii habeenimadii xalay ka dhacay Soomaaliya iyo waliba caalamka, barnaamijyo, wareysi xiiso leh, ciyaaraha, dhanbaallada dhagaystayaasha iyo waliba wargeysyada caalamku waxay saaka ku waabariisteen.

Idaacadda Fiidnimo ee Evening Edition waxaad ku maqashaan wararkii ugu danbeeyey ee Soomaaliya iyo Caalamka, barnaamijyo iyo wareysiyo ka turjumaya dhacdooyinka waqtigaasi ka dhacaya daafaha Dunida. Jadwalka: Maalinle Wakhtiga maxalliga ah: 19:00 UTC, xilliga: 1600 Muddada: 60

VOA Express ni matangazo mapya yenye mwendo wa kasi yakiangalia habari mpya za mchana na maelezo ya maswala yanayohusu vijana na wanawake. Matangazo haya yanafuatilia habari zilizojitokeza nyakati za mchana na ripoti za kina za habari ambazo hazisikiki sana katika matangazo mengineyo.

ဗီြအိုေအအသံလႊင့္ဌာနသည္ အလယ္ပိုင္းႏွင့္ အေရွ႕ပိုင္ းဥေရာပေဒသ၊ ေကာ့ေကးဆပ္စ္ေဒသ၊ ဗဟိုအာရွေဒသ၊ ႐ုရွား၊ အေရွ႕အလယ္ပိုင္းႏွင့္ ေဘာ္လ္ကန္ႏုိင္ငံမ်ားသို႔ အစီအစဥ္မ်ား ထုတ္လႊင့္ေနသည့္ ႏုိင္္ငံတကာ အသံလႊင့္ဌာနျဖစ္ပါသည္။

Words and Their Stories programs explain idioms and expressions that many learners of American English find difficult to understand.

Daybreak Africa is a 30-minute breakfast show looks at the latest developments on the continent and provides in-depth interviews, and reports from VOA correspondents.

Half-hour broadcasts in Afaan Oromoo of news, interviews with newsmakers, features about culture, health, youth, politics, agriculture, development and sports on Monday through Friday evenings at 8:30 in Ethiopia and Eritrea.

Innovations and trends in education in the United States and around the world.

International Edition delivers insight into world news through eye-witnesses, correspondent reports and analysis from experts and news makers. We also keep you in touch with social media, science and entertainment trends.

Some of the biggest names in music such as Taylor Swift, Tim McGraw, Adele, Katy Perry, Enrique Iglesias, Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, Charlie Puth, Rihanna and many more have joined host Larry London for live interviews and performance on the program.

Voice of America is an international news and broadcast organization serving Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia, the Middle East and Balkan countries

Join host Carol Castiel each week as she and two advocates from the world of politics, culture, public policy, or academia debate and discuss a critical issue in the news. This program brings depth, perspective, and insight to the world around us.

Brighten your day by tuning in the Sonny Side of Sports radio show. VOA’s Sonny Young delivers an upbeat and lively presentation during his 30 minute sports shows, broadcast Monday through Friday.

Nightline Africa is a 60-minute news magazine program highlighting the latest issues and developments on the continent. Correspondents from Washington and across Africa offer in-depth interviews, analysis and features on African arts and culture, sports, and music

Africa News Tonight is a lively news magazine featuring VOA correspondent reports, interviews with African officials, opposition leaders, NGOs and human rights activists. News feature stories look at science and technology, environmental issues, humanitarian topics and the African diaspora.

Flashpoint Iran offers in-depth analysis of the rising tensions in Iran and a big picture understanding of daily events.

Studio 7 for Zimbabwe provides comprehensive and reliable radio news seven days a week on AM, shortwave and satellite, and the Internet.

The Voice of America (VOA) is an international multimedia broadcasting service from the U.S.A. with news and information in more than 40 languages. VOA broadcasts approximately 1,500 hours of news, information, educational, and cultural programming every week to an estimated worldwide audience of 123 million people. To find out more visit us at VOANews.com.