Learn from Popular Science

Popular Science is an American monthly magazine that covers science and technology. It’s one of the oldest magazines, started in the late 19th century, and its target readers are general public.

At its redesigned website, Popular Science puts out video reports along with the text ones. Here are some interesting reports: Sony’s 3-D Television, video ads in a print magazine, and turning brain waves into beautiful music.

You can also watch Popular Science’s video reporting at its YouTube channel here.

Learn from Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business Review is a monthly magazine that ranks high among senior executives, management consultants, and business school professors.

It would be way too boring for language learners to read the typical jargon-rich long articles of HBR. But watching the short video clips it produces can be a good learning experience. Most are the short interviews it conducted with the business school professors or senior executives. Here are a few samples: Innovate Like Google, Managing Generation Y, and The Dangers of Nepotism.

The easiest way to watch HBR’s video is at its YouTube channel here.

 

Learn from National Public Radio

National Public Radio (NPR) produces and distributes news and cultural programming over 700 public radio stations in the U.S, reaching 27 million Americans each week. Its diverse contents and sheer volume are great leaning materials for English learners.

For those who reside outside the U.S., the best way to listen to NPR is through streaming through its website. It presents the programming under three categories: News, Arts&Life, and Music. You can hear them at Listen page. Besides radio broadcasting, NPR also produces video reporting under Multimedia page.

This is the NPR’s YouTube channel for its video reporting.

Learn from Voice of America

Voice of America (VOA) should be a familiar voice to many English learners worldwide. It’s a radio broadcasting set up by the U.S. government during the World War Two. Today it broadcasts the programs through television and Internet, too.

At its website VOANews.com, VOA offers many short, up-to-date video reporting under four categories: News&Polictics, Economy, US Life&Art, Science/Health. Here are a few samples: Anniversary of Berlin Wall’s Removal,  Asian-American MBAs Job Search, H1N1 Virus goes global.

You can also watch VOA News at its Youtube channel here.