Cultural intelligence means the need to consider local behaviors in everything from simple handshakes to speaking to large groups.

VOA: special.2011.01.21

Speaking of personal questions, there is an expression people sometimes use when their children ask, "where do babies come from?"

VOA: special.2009.06.28

On Wednesday, Mister Obama marked his one hundredth day by speaking at a school in the state of Missouri.

VOA: special.2009.05.02

Jacob Riis's concern for the poor kept him so busy writing and speaking around the country that he ruined his health.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

And speaking of mountains, Alaska has more than seventy volcanoes that are potentially active, meaning that someday they could erupt.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

He was speaking to guests at an iftar dinner at the White House celebrating the holy month of Ramadan.

VOA: special.2010.08.21

The expression probably comes from the physical act of turning your back toward someone, instead of speaking to him face-to-face.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

He says -- speaking by Skype from his office in Ann Arbor,Michigan -- that he is hopeful the program will work.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

Senator Lodge continued. "A literacy test will bear very lightly, if at all, upon English-speaking immigrants or Germans,Scandinavians and French.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

Sometimes when one person is speaking, he says the same thing that his friend was going to say.

VOA: special.2010.06.20

"Each of the characters has a unique characteristic that we think is not often represented by their ethnicities, broadly speaking,in the media."

VOA: special.2011.04.22

Rapping could be described as speaking or singing words at a fast speed over music with quick beats.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

She won a four-year college scholarship, the top prize nationally in a public speaking contest on the Constitution.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

William the Conqueror led it. The Normans were a French-speaking people from Normandy in the north of France.

VOA: special.2011.01.05