Do you know about “Voice of America” and their “Special English” content? If you don’t, you should. We think it’s another excellent source of English education materials, and absolutely free.

VOA’s content is news, read by an announcer in very slow, very clearly-pronounced English, along with the written news article, like a transcript.

It’s different from our podcast in that VOA’s “Special English” consists of news reports, while we concentrate on real conversation. Also, they speak unnaturally slow, but that can be useful to intermediate learners. For advanced learners, it might feel a bit too slow for you.

We recommend VOA’s “Special English” not as conversation, but as news reports made for ESL learners. These are a good complement to our Bomb English materials, so you can get both news and conversational material together.

(Thanks, Brendon, for the tip!)