{"id":6051,"date":"2013-04-01T11:25:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T15:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=6051"},"modified":"2013-04-01T11:41:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T15:41:56","slug":"shortwave-radio-recordings-voa-special-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/shortwave-radio-recordings-voa-special-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: VOA Special English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/VOApodcastimageSPecialEnglish.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6055\" alt=\"VOApodcastimageSPecialEnglish\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/VOApodcastimageSPecialEnglish.gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>I believe that VOA Special English may be one of the best educational resources on the shortwaves. At <a title=\"ETOW\" href=\"http:\/\/earstoourworld.org\" target=\"_blank\">Ears To Our World<\/a>, we find that it is often the<em> most<\/em> popular program in countries where English may be the official language, but where locals only speak it as a second language.<\/p>\n<p>Over four years ago, I mentioned a <a title=\"VOA honors former director who introduced Special English programming\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/voa-honors-former-director-who-introduced-special-english-programming\/\" target=\"_blank\">Special English broadcast honoring Henry Loomis<\/a>, the creator and champion of Special English at the VOA. <a title=\"VOA honors former director who introduced Special English programming\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/voa-honors-former-director-who-introduced-special-english-programming\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read the archived post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I recorded <a href=\"https:\/\/ia801704.us.archive.org\/29\/items\/VOASpecialEng5.96MHz13Mar130130Z\/VOASpecialEng-5.96MHz-13Mar13-0130Z.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">this particular broadcast<\/a> of VOA Special English on March 19, 2013 at 1:30 UTC on 5,960 kHz.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Click to download\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/VOASpecialEng5.96MHz13Mar130130Z\/VOASpecialEng-5.96MHz-13Mar13-0130Z.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to download the recording as an MP3 file<\/a>, or simply listen via the embedded player below:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/VOASpecialEng5.96MHz13Mar130130Z\" height=\"30\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe that VOA Special English may be one of the best educational resources on the shortwaves. At Ears To Our World, we find that it is often the most popular program in countries where English may be the official language, but where locals only speak it as a second language. Over four years ago, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,1557,746,1167],"tags":[4106,737,1813,10,1812,1811,182],"class_list":["post-6051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-podcast","category-recordings","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-recordings","tag-shortwave-radio-recordings","tag-the-voice-of-america","tag-voa","tag-voa-learning-english","tag-voa-special-english","tag-voice-of-america"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1zB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8795,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/shortwave-radio-recordings-voice-of-america-circa-1968\/","url_meta":{"origin":6051,"position":0},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Voice of America, circa 1968","author":"Thomas","date":"February 15, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to David Firth, who is kindly sharing shortwave radio recordings he made on reel-to-reel recording equipment in the late 1960s. 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Check out Neal's request below and if you have any information or leads that might help him, please comment. Neal writes: I am working on a project about a Voice of America broadcaster from\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Boat-Anchor-Dial-2-e1531303366290.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Boat-Anchor-Dial-2-e1531303366290.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Boat-Anchor-Dial-2-e1531303366290.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Boat-Anchor-Dial-2-e1531303366290.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6084,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/6084\/","url_meta":{"origin":6051,"position":3},"title":"VOA reducing shortwave radio broadcasts","author":"Thomas","date":"March 27, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Following the BBC World Service's lead, the VOA will reduce broadcasts to Iran,\u00a0Albania, Georgia and Latin America, along with English language broadcasts to the Middle East and Afghanistan. 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