News For Kids

Dirty air is not good for our lungs. Lungs are the parts of our body that help us breathe air in and out. Dirty air can make our lungs weak. Weak lungs can make running and playing hard. Weak lungs can make breathing hard! 肺是人體的呼吸器官，而髒空氣會讓肺變得虛弱，影響呼吸和日常活動。 Click HERE for the full transcript!

What can fall on you like rain and snow? At a temple in Gukeng in Yunlin, money can! 除了下雪和下雨，還能下什麼呢？在雲林古坑鄉的一間宮廟，會下鈔票雨！ Click HERE for the full transcript!

In many places around the world, young people are farming. But they are not growing plants. They are aura farming. Aura is coolness. People say you can grow aura. That is why they call it "aura farming." 現在年輕人的新流行叫做 “aura farming”，就是透過耍酷來製造氣場。 Click HERE for the full transcript!

A pizza shop was having a busy day. But it was going to get busier! Someone called the shop. The person ordered 18 pizzas! That is a lot of pizzas! 美國一家忙碌的披薩店接到電話訂單，竟然點了18個大披薩！ Click HERE for the full transcript!

Do you like night markets? They are loud. They have a lot of people. But they also have a lot of tasty food. You can have popcorn chicken, egg cake, and much more! There is food everywhere you go at night markets! Click HERE for the full transcript!

Taiwan has some busy train stations. But the busiest one is Taipei Main Station. Every day, hundreds of thousands of people use it! 台灣有好幾個繁忙的車站，其中又以台北車站進出的旅客最多。 Click HERE for the full transcript!

Bees are important for nature. They fly from flower to flower. They get a yellow powder called p-p-p-pollen! The bees also bring pollen to flowers. This helps many fruits and vegetables grow. So bees are important for us too! 蜜蜂在花朵之間飛來飛去傳遞花粉，幫助蔬菜水果生長，是很重要的昆蟲！ Click HERE for the full transcript!

Beaches can look beautiful from far away. But when you go closer, maybe you will find trash! You might see bottles, fishing nets, plastic bags, and more. 台灣的海灘很美，但近看卻可能會發現海灘上垃圾很多。 Click HERE for the full transcript!

Long ago, a man went to old towns in Europe. He saw the towns were made for people. People walked everywhere. They did not need cars. 很久以前，有一名男子在歐洲小鎮旅遊，發現當地路上沒有汽車，對行人非常友善。 Click HERE for the full transcript!

In one part of New Taipei, people were very worried about a building. They called the city. City workers went to the building. They went up to the top. They looked at the roof. Click HERE for the full transcript!

The U.S. had a big birthday this summer. It is now two hundred fifty years old! There were lots of parties. Fireworks went off! Cool planes flew in airshows! 今年夏天，美國用煙火，飛行特技等等，盛大慶祝建國250周年! Click HERE for the full transcript!

What is small and green and has a strong smell? It is not soap. We do not wash with it. We can eat it. It is cilantro! 香菜有綠色的嫩葉，一小把就可以增添食物的香氣。 Click HERE for the full transcript!

Many of Taiwan's roads have trees. These roadside trees are important. They make the air cooler and cleaner. They help make the roads quieter. They help keep people on sidewalks safe. And they give us something nice to look at! 在馬路兩邊的樹木非常重要，不只讓空氣清新、保護行人安全，還能美化市容！ Click HERE for the full transcript!

King cobras are big, long snakes. They are three or four meters long. That is longer than two Taiwan cobras! Like Taiwan cobras, they are dangerous! Their venom is very strong and fast. It can kill! 眼鏡王蛇是毒蛇，體長可以到3公尺以上，比台灣眼鏡蛇長兩倍，非常危險! Click HERE for the full transcript!

Taiwan has a lot of train lines. Some go under the ground. Some go very fast. Some go through forests. Some go over rivers. And now, one line goes to places with lots of art! The Sanying Line is in New Taipei. The trains go to Sanxia. Hakka people have lived in Sanxia for a long time. Click HERE for the full transcript!

Taipei Zoo got two presents. They are two animals from Shanghai Zoo in China. Can you guess what kind of animals they are? Are they apes? How about lions? No, they are red pandas. Their names are Lele and Tiantian. Lele is a 3-year-old boy. Tiantian is a 2-year-old girl. 臺北市立動物園獲得兩件禮物，是來自上海動物園的小貓熊，樂樂跟甜甜。 Click HERE for the full transcript!

In Taiwan's parks, kids are looking everywhere. They are looking under plants and trees. They are looking under benches where people sit. What are they looking for? 最近，很多兒童在公園裡到處尋找，樹底下草裡面都找了。他們究竟在找什麼？ Click HERE for the full transcript!

Have you been to Hualien Bus Station? A cute orange cat works there. But last year, he was a hungry kitten. A kitten is a baby cat! One night, station workers heard a cat meowing. Where was the cat? They looked and looked. But they did not find it. 花蓮轉運站有一隻橘色的貓咪，牠是怎麼來的？之前一個晚上，車站員工聽見貓叫聲。 Click HERE for the full transcript!

Do you know how to ride a bike? A young woman in South Africa knew how to do many things. But she did not know how to ride a bike. When she was a girl, she tried to learn how to ride. 你會不會騎腳踏車? 南非有個年輕女孩，她會做很多事，就是不會騎腳踏車。 Click HERE for the full transcript!

The sun is very big and very bright. We cannot look at it. Looking at it is bad for our eyes. The moon is small and bright. The sun makes it bright to us! We see the sun and the moon take turns in the sky almost every day. Click HERE for the full transcript!

You are hiking on a mountain. Your mouth is dry. You want some water. But there are no stores! Oh no! There is no clean water to drink! Hey! You need a jacket that makes drinking water! That sounds crazy, right? But scientists in the U. S. made a jacket that gets drinking water from the air! 爬山的時候沒有乾淨的水喝怎麼辦呢？美國科學家發明了一件能利用空氣製造水的外套！ Click HERE for the full transcript!

What can you do with a watermelon? You can eat it. You can make juice with it. Or... you can make it stand to bring good luck! What? 西瓜除了拿來吃、打成西瓜汁之外，還能做什麼呢？ Click HERE for the full transcript!

A boy in the U.S. lives on a ranch. A ranch is a big farm where animals are raised. The boy is fourteen years old. He wants to be a cowhand. Cowhands take care of cows. 一個生活在牧場的男孩，夢想成為照顧牛群的牛仔。 Click HERE for the full transcript!

India has springs. A spring is where water comes up from the ground. It comes up by itself! Some springs have hot water. Some have cold water. Families and farmers use the water. But every year, many springs have less water. Some springs are gone… 印度有很多會冒出地面的泉水，但有些地方的水量每年都減少，有些甚至快要消失。 Click HERE for the full transcript!

Argentina is a country. It is in South America. It rains a lot in some places in Argentina. But this year, there was more rain. There was too much rain! Now 700,000 cows there need to find new homes. Click HERE for the full transcript!

People LOVE to do something that no one has done. When they do that, they set a world record. Kids can set world records! Hey! Maybe you can set one! 很多人喜歡挑戰從來沒有人做過的事，假如成功，就能創下世界紀錄。有些小孩就辦到了。 Click HERE for the full transcript!

This summer had many big fires in the news. They were all around the world. From January to August, more land than 31 Taiwans burned. 今年世界上許多地方發生火災，燒掉的總面積相當於三十一個台灣。 Click HERE for the full transcript!

The biggest park in the world is in Greenland. The park is bigger than 27 Taiwans! It has many small seas. They open to a big sea. They have tall walls of rock on three sides. The small seas are deep. The water is VERY cold. 格陵蘭有世界最大的國家公園，總面積比二十七個台灣還大！這個公園包括許多峽灣，峽灣的海水很冰冷！ Click HERE for the full transcript!

A pilot from Taiwan had a big dream. He wanted to be the first pilot from Taiwan to fly around the world in a small plane. Why? He wanted the world to know that people from Taiwan are brave. 有一位台灣飛行員，夢想駕駛小飛機環遊世界，讓世界知道台灣人很勇敢。 Click HERE for the full transcript!

A big sports competition was in New Taipei for three days. Men's and women's teams came from ten countries! But…Typhoon Bavi tried to come too! 新北市舉辦了一場為期三天的大型運動賽事，有來自十個國家的隊伍前來參賽。不過，颱風巴威也想來共襄盛舉！ Click HERE for the full transcript!

The Ganges is a river in India and Bangladesh. It is very important to many people. They say it is from heaven. They say the water is very clean. 恆河是一條貫穿印度與孟加拉的河。有許多人仰賴這條河生存，他們認為恆河的水從天上來，是潔淨的水。 Click HERE for the full transcript!

Taiwan loves baseball! The U.S. loves baseball! We’re friends. So some U.S. baseball teams have Taiwan Days! 台灣人跟美國人都愛棒球，有些美國棒球隊會有「台灣日」！ Click HERE for the full transcript!

A sprint is a short, fast run. The world’s fastest sprinter is Usain Bolt. He has eight Olympic gold medals! He is the world's fastest in the 100-meter sprint. He is the world's fastest in the 200-meter sprint too! 短跑賽是緊張刺激的比賽，世界上最快的飛毛腿尤塞恩·波特，是八面奧運金牌得主，也是男子一百米和兩百米短跑的世界紀錄保持人！ Click HERE for the full transcript!

What do you think grandmas do? Well, in Taiwan, one grandma went to a baseball game. But she did not watch it. She was the star! 阿嬤通常都在做什麼？ 在台灣，有一位阿嬤參加了一場棒球賽，但她不是觀眾，而是場上的球星！ Click HERE for the full transcript!

Summer is very hot in Taiwan! The sun is very strong. Walking outside is not fun. We get sweaty very fast! 台灣的夏天很熱，只要一出門就會全身是汗！ Click HERE for the full transcript!

Hot air balloons are very big balloons. They go high in the sky. A big basket is under each balloon. A pilot and riders are in it. 熱氣球非常巨大，可以飛到高空。熱氣球下方有一個大籃子，搭載飛行員跟乘客。 Click HERE to see the full episode transcript, vocabulary, and quiz.

Taiwan has a new champion! He is a skateboarder. He won a silver medal! And he is eleven years old! 一名十一歲的台灣小男孩在亞洲錦標賽獲得了滑板銀牌！ Click HERE for the full transcript!

Do you like going to concerts? It is exciting to see your favorite singers! 你有去演唱會追星過嗎? 親眼看到喜歡的歌手會很開心! But sometimes good tickets are hard to get. They sell fast! So some fans stay up late to get tickets online. Some learn to type fast. Then they can get tickets online fast! 熱門的票券經常很難搶，所以很多粉絲會想盡辦法弄到票。 Click HERE for the full transcript!

Every year, Taiwan has many Hungry Ghost festivals. It’s a very big, very old festival. Some say it’s more than two thousand years old! People honor the ghosts of family and friends who died. 台灣很多地方都會過中元節。 他大概有超過兩千多年的歷史。每年的中元節，大家會緬懷過世的親人。 Click HERE for the full transcript!

In India, people fly kites. They have been flying kites for hundreds of years. At festivals, thousands of colorful kitesfly. Some people fly them from the tops of buildings! Kites high in the sky are beautiful! 印度人喜歡放風箏，這項活動已經有好幾百年的歷史。每到節慶的時候，就能看到成千上萬個彩色風箏在空中飛揚，非常美麗！ Click HERE to see the full episode transcript, vocabulary, and quiz.

One day at a zoo in Kaohsiung, chimpanzees had newspapers and books! The chimps put them close to their faces. They looked and looked at them. 有一天，高雄的某一座動物園裡有黑猩猩在讀報紙和書！ Click HERE for the full transcript!

Narrator: Scientists around the world worry about blindness. When people cannot see, their lives are not easy. So one blind man ran a marathon. That is more than 42 kilometers! People gave him money for running. He helps blind people and scientists with the money. 當人們看不見的時候，生活會變得很困難。一位失明的男子決定挑戰馬拉松賽！許多人捐款給他，而他用這個錢來支持視障人士和科學研究。 Click HERE for the full transcript!

Some people can make pretty pictures... in coffee! They make them with very, very small milk bubbles. The pictures are called latte art. 有些人可以在咖啡的表面，用很小的牛奶泡泡畫出各種圖案，這叫做咖啡拉花。 Click HERE for the full transcript!

What makes seeds grow into plants? 是什麼讓種子長成一棵一棵植物？ We put seeds in water or the ground. We do this when the weather is good for them. We water seeds in the ground. Then we wait. The seeds start to grow. 天氣好的時候播種，把種子放進土裡或水中，並且替土裡的種子澆水。然後就等它發芽。 Click HERE for the full transcript!

Did you know our bodies can be younger or older than we are? Maybe you are ten, but your body is twelve! 你可知道，我們身體的年齡可能會比實際年齡年輕或者年老呢? Our bodies' age shows how worn out our cells are. How do scientists know they are wearing out? 身體年齡從細胞衰退的程度可以看出來。那麼科學家怎麼知道細胞正在衰退呢？ Click HERE for the full transcript!

In India, one place has big mountains around it. In the winter, there is one road to the place. This road is important. Every day, many trucks and cars use it. It is in the mountains. 印度有一個地方被高山環繞。冬天的時候，只有一條山間道路可以通往那裡。每天都有許多車輛行駛在這條重要的山路上。 Click HERE for the full transcript!

Do you like to go for long drives? How long is your longest drive? Two men wanted to go for a very long drive. They wanted to start in the U.K. They wanted to drive to South Africa! How crazy! 你喜歡開車長途旅行嗎？有兩名男子有個瘋狂的想法。他們想從英國出發，一路開車到南非！ Click HERE for the full transcript!

Who’s a good dog?! Dogs are great! When we come home, they show us love and happiness! They make us laugh. They make us walk! We play with them. 回到家的時候，狗狗會用愛與快樂讓我們開懷大笑！我們和狗狗出門散步、玩遊戲，度過快樂的時光。 Click HERE for the full transcript

Two brothers lived in a big city in India. Lots of people burn trash there. That makes the air dirty. The dirty air made the older brother cough a lot. 在印度，很多人燒垃圾，導致空氣變得很髒。有一對兄弟住在印度的大城市裡，髒空氣讓哥哥經常咳嗽。 Click HERE for the full transcript!

Many airports have gift shops. An airport in Australia has a gift shop. It sells cute stuffed animals and many other things. 很多機場都有禮品店。澳洲一座機場的禮品店內可以買到可愛的絨毛娃娃！ Click HERE for the full transcript!