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[|The world's English mania] Jay Walker explains why two billion people around the world are trying to learn English. He shares photos and spine-tingling audio of Chinese students rehearsing English -- "the world's second language" -- by the thousands.

If you liked the talk above then look up some other talks on the [|TED] site.

[|Words in the news] BBC site that looks at some ome of the words that [|crop up] in the news.

[|Voice Of America] Use the radio transcripts and audio files on our site to improve your American English and learn about current events, science, health, economics etc.