News For Kids

I was almost late! 我差一點遲到了！ My bus was late! 我的公車晚來了！ I take a bus to work. Do you take a bus to school? Or something else? It doesn't really matter as long as you're not late for class! It would be nice to go by bicycle, too. But sometimes there's a lot of traffic and it's not safe for kids to cycle to school, especially in busy cities. 騎腳踏車上學也很不錯，但是在車流量大的時候，...

Do you know that scientists are trying to talk to whales? 你知道科學家正在試著跟鯨魚說話嗎？ Really, I'm not joking! Some whales sing… but some whales use clicking sounds. Scientists are using a super-powerful computer to record and listen to the clicks. The computer listens to thousands and thousands of hours of clicking sounds… and maybe soon, the computer will figure out what the clicks mean!...

Hey kids! Have you ever wanted something a lot? Maybe you really wanted a toy or a video game. Well, today I want to tell you a story about a woman in Canada named Daniele who really wanted to buy a cute, green house. But the owner of the green house she wanted said he wanted to tear it down. Daniele很想買的一棟可愛的綠色房屋，房屋的主人卻是要把房子拆掉。 So, what did Daniele do? She bought the gr...

Hi, students. Today, I'm going to tell you a story about a cat named Piran. Piran helped save its owner's life. The cat's owner is an old woman. She is 83 years old, and she lives in England. One day, the woman was walking near her house. Then, she fell down a ravine. The ravine was very steep. She fell about 20 meters down the steep ravine! 有一位83歲的英國老太太掉下20公尺深的陡峭山谷。 People fo...

Gosh, I love eating hot dogs. They taste so good! And you can add lots of toppings to make them even better! Some people like to keep it simple with ketchup and mustard. Other people like to add chili or onions or pickles. No matter what you add, it's all delicious! 我超喜歡吃熱狗！不管你加什麼配料，都非常美味！ What was that? What did you say? Hot dogs are bad for you? Who told you that? 什麼？吃...

Do you hear that? It's the sound of waves on the beach. How does it make you feel? Pretty good, right? Let's listen to another sound. Oh, I love the sound of birds singing. It makes me feel so relaxed. Why am I playing you these sounds? It's because I want to tell you about a survey. The survey was done by a company that sells mostly glasses. The company also sells things to help people hear bette...

These days, the trains in Taiwan are very nice. They have air conditioning, and they are very fast… But when your mommy and daddy were young people, the trains in Taiwan were very different. 你爸爸媽媽小時候坐的火車，跟現在的火車很不一樣喔。 The old trains were painted blue. The old trains were slow… and guess what? They didn't have air conditioning! But, you could open the windows on the train!...

I love the sea… Blughh! But I hate getting seawater in my mouth! Eww! It tastes horrible! 大海景色優美又好玩，但是海水的味道真的很糟糕。 Yuck! Seawater is really salty. Not only does it taste really bad, it will actually make you even more thirsty! There's just too much salt in it for our bodies. So no matter how thirsty you are, never drink from the sea! 海水很鹹，不只難喝，還會讓你更口渴，因為我...

Hey kids! Let's talk about money. Do you know what a euro is? A euro is money that people use in many countries in Europe. One euro is equal to about 32 NT dollars. 一歐元等於32塊台幣左右。 You can't buy much with a euro. I guess you can buy some candy or gum at 7-Eleven. But in Italy, there is a town where you can buy a house for just 1 euro, or 32 NT! 義大利有個地方，你用一歐元就可以買一棟房子。...

Woah! Look what I found! What an interesting seashell! I like digging in the sand and dirt, because you can find interesting things buried in the ground. 我喜歡挖泥土，因為地底下可以找到有趣的東西。 And sometimes the things you find can be old and special. For example, some researchers in England recently found something very interesting in the ground… dinosaur bones! These bones are extra special...

Elephants are very big! What does a big animal need a lot of every day? Food! Elephants need a lot of food. But, in some places in Africa, elephants come into villages to find food. This is a problem because a big hungry elephant can smash things and take all the farmers' food. People can get hurt when elephants come looking for food and elephants can get hurt too… 非洲有一些地方的大象，會跑進村莊...

What is the most interesting piece of art you have ever seen? 你看過最有趣的藝術品是甚麼呢？ The Mona Lisa? A sculpture by Ju Ming? What about… nothing? A museum in Denmark is not happy with an artist named Jenns Haaning because of what he did. 丹麥有一個博物館對藝術家Haaning很不高興。 Actually, they're unhappy with him because of what he didn't do. 對他不開心不是因為他做了什麼，而是因為他甚麼都沒...

Polly want a cracker? Have you ever heard of a talking parrot? 你聽過鸚鵡說話嗎？ Of course you have. Parrots are famous for being able to speak. Parrots know how to copy the way humans talk. 鸚鵡會學人類說話。 But have you ever heard of a talking duck? 但是你聽過鴨子說話嗎？ According to experts, there's a kind of duck that can make sounds like people, too. This kind of duck is called a musk duck...

Do you like looking up at the sky at night? You might see the moon and pretty stars all the way out in space! 晚上看天空很美吧。 It's not just beautiful to look at though, there's a lot to learn from space. People who study space are called astronomers. 研究太空科學的人叫天文學家。 Usually it takes many years of school to become an astronomer. But one little 8-year-old girl in Brazil could become...

Have you ever burned ghost money? You know what ghost money is, right? This kind of money is not real money. It is fake. 紙錢不是真的錢。It is money you burn for people who are no longer alive. People believe that if you put ghost money in fire, dead people can use it. 人們燒紙錢是給過世的親人用的。That's pretty cool! But you don't want to accidentally burn things you don't want to burn! For examp...

It is already fall, and the summer is over, but that doesn't mean you can't still pretend! The Tamsui Fisherman's Wharf Station in northern Taiwan, is decorated like it's still summer! 雖然現在是秋天，淡水漁人碼頭車站仍然被裝飾得像夏天。 The entire place is decorated so visitors feel like they're at the beach! There are fun things to look at and take pictures with. There are ice cream shops, showe...

Would you like to be a member of a royal family? For example, would you like to be a king or queen? 你想當國王, 還是皇后嗎？ What if it meant you could not be with the person you loved? Well, there was a princess in Japan who did not want to be a princess anymore. Princess Mako was a real princess in the Japanese royal family. 真子公主本來是日本王室一位真正的公主。 She married a man who is not a p...

Oh, hi kids! I'm just eating some vegetables. Vegetables are plants. Fruits are plants, too. We eat lots of plants. Do you know what other things we can do with plants? Make things! We can make houses with trees, for example. First, you cut the trees down. Then you can make a house. 蔬菜水果都是植物。植物可以吃也可以用來製造東西，很多房子就是木頭做的。 There is an American company that uses plants...

Woahh! Oh, that's right! It's almost Halloween! Will you dress up for Halloween? 萬聖節快到了!你那天會換裝嗎？ Maybe become a witch or a vampire? 要變成巫婆還是吸血鬼？ Or what about the monster from one of my favorite scary stories, Frankenstein! 還是科學怪人？！ Frankenstein is a story about a crazy scientist who wanted to create life. He made a big green man from… ewww… other body parts… An arm...

Did you know some police officers in Pakistan use rollerblades! These police officers learn how to rollerblade so they can chase and catch people who break the law. 有一些巴基斯坦的警察穿直排輪去追犯人。 Some cities in Pakistan are super, super crowded. The traffic is super bad! The police say they can't use a police car… and they can't use a police motorcycle. The roads are too crowded! So, they...

Gardens are great! They are places people grow vegetables. They can be on the ground and on people's roofs. They can even be on balconies. 蔬菜可以種在地上，陽台或是屋頂上。 But, did you know there is also a garden under the sea? 連海底也可以種蔬菜。 It's called Nemo's Garden. It's under the ocean near Italy. 尼莫的菜園在義大利附近的海中。 How do you grow vegetables under the sea? That's a good qu...

There is a five-year-old kid in Egypt who drives a race car! That's amazing. Many kids can ride a bicycle… but drive a race car? How is that possible? 五歲小孩開賽車，怎麼可能？ Well, in Egypt there are lots of deserts. Deserts are big, open, and sandy … so you won't really crash into anything. 埃及有廣大的沙漠，寬廣的空間讓汽車駕駛不會撞上東西。 The desert race cars have special wheels and they l...

Would you like to ride on a unicorn? I know, I know… unicorns aren't real. But one company in China wants to make robot unicorns! They want to make robot unicorns for kids to ride on! 中國有一家公司準備推出機器獨角獸讓小孩騎。 The company in China says their robot unicorn will have a supercomputer inside it, so it will be very smart. 這些機器獨角獸內建超級電腦，所以是非常聰明的獨角獸。 The robot u...

Do you know what animal makes that sound? That's a whale call! 那個聲音就是鯨魚。 Whales are the world's biggest animals. But it's funny, many of the biggest whales only eat tiny things. 很好玩的是，體型最大的鯨魚，只吃最小的東西。 Some whales rush forward with their huge mouths wide open, so lots of water, and any food in the water, rushes in! It's pretty cool. But one man found out you shouldn't...

Here, kitty kitty kitty! I love my cat! She's so cute! Did you know that my kitty cat and a lion are part of the same family? It's true! The cat family has big cats, like lions and tigers, and small cats, like my cat. 大型貓科動物包含獅子老虎，小型的就是家貓。 Many people think the lion is the "king" of the cat family… but the lion isn't the best hunter in the cat family. And nope, it's not the ti...