VOA SPECIAL ENGLISH
Time and Frequencies

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VOA Special English is a simple English language used by Voice of America in daily broadcasts. The news is read slowly and using a limited word-list of about 1500 words. Charles Kay Ogden suggested radio news be given in Basic English with the addition of a special radio vocabulary given approval. for Basic. Though designed for telling news round the earth, VOA Special English has another good point of giving help in starting English and the ways of saying to be polished.

Get current VOA News Special English Frequencies - these change with the divisions of the year.

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The news is ready in Special English at all times on the Internet . Click on Listen now if you have Real Audio.

Sample Time and Frequency   -   Daily.

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Universal Time | Frequencies in kHz

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UT/ GMT	Area	Frequencies
1630	Africa	13600 15445 17640
0030	Asia	15290 17820 17740 1575 9890 11760 7215 15185
1530	Asia	9760 9795 9825 6110 9760 1575 15460
2330	Asia	7130 9620 11805 15205 13640
0130	Latin America	7405 9775 13740 M-F local time
0030	Middle East	1593
1930	Middle East	9785 12015 13640

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About this Page: VOATime.html -- Special English times and frequencies for VOA news
on the short-wave radio using only 1,500 words and spoken slowly. Also ready on the internet at all times.
Last updated December 13, 2002

URL: http://ogden.basic-english.org/voatime.html