

News For Kids
ICRT
News For Kids brings you easy stories in English, with Chinese translations to help students and second language learners here in Taiwan!
Stories are written and recorded by ICRT correspondents, and uploaded every weekday morning.
Stories are written and recorded by ICRT correspondents, and uploaded every weekday morning.
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Jan 7, 2025 • 5min
Student Finds Old City
Wow! There are so many trees here! Look to your left! Trees! Look to your right! There are more trees! We are in a forest, right?哇!這裡有好多樹木!左看右看都是高大的樹,我們走在森林裡,對吧?Click HERE for the full transcript.

Jan 6, 2025 • 5min
Drones Kill Fire Ants in Taiwan
Do you live near fire ants? Be careful! These ants are worse than other ants. They bite! Then they sting! Three to seven times! OUCH! That hurts a lot! 你住的地方附近有紅火蟻嗎? 這種可怕的螞蟻會叮咬人三到七次,非常痛!Click HERE for the full transcript!

Jan 5, 2025 • 5min
Sailing the Humpback Highway to Help Save Humpbacks
The Maori are New Zealand's Indigenous people. Whales are important to them. These very big ocean animals gave the Maori meat, milk, oil, and more.毛利人是紐西蘭原住民,座頭鯨對他們很重要,它提供了鯨魚肉、奶、魚油等資源。Click HERE for the full transcript!

Jan 2, 2025 • 5min
New Year’s Special (Part III): Food!
Yesterday was about New Year’s celebrations. Today, we’re talking about food!昨天介紹的慶祝方式都很有趣,那不同國家會吃什麼食物來迎接新年呢?Click HERE for the full transcript.

Jan 2, 2025 • 5min
New Year’s Special (Part II): Party Time!
Yesterday was about calendars. Today, we’re talking about celebrations! 昨天大家認識了各國的月曆,今天來聊聊不同的慶祝方式! Click HERE to see the full episode transcript, vocabulary, and quiz.

Dec 31, 2024 • 5min
New Year’s Special (Part I): Calendars!
It's 2025! HAPPY NEW YEAR! Welcome to our three-part New Year’s Special!There are many days for the new year all overthe world. Why? Well, different cultures use different calendars.你知道世界新年的日子很不一樣嗎? 因為每一個文化有自己特別的月曆。Click HERE for the full transcript!

Dec 30, 2024 • 5min
More Electric Scooters Deliver Mail
More Electric Scooters Deliver MailElectric scooters are great. They are better than gas scooters. Gas scooters are loud. Electric scooters are quiet. Ah, that sounds so nice!電動機車比一般燃油車好多了,它們不會發出很大的噪音。Click HERE to see the full episode transcript, vocabulary, and quiz.

Dec 29, 2024 • 5min
Japanese Satellite Surprise
Japanese Satellite Surprise Manmade satellites go around the Earth. Some take pictures of things in space. Some take pictures of the Earth. Some help us know how to go somewhere. Some help us know about the weather. Some send phone calls to different places. Satellites are important!人造衛星繞著地球轉,它們有很多任務!像是拍攝太空跟地球的照片、把電話轉接到世界各地、幫助我們做天氣預報等等。Click HERE to see the full episode transcript!

Dec 26, 2024 • 5min
Taiwan Has the World's Biggest Swim Event
Taiwan Has the World's Biggest Swim EventIn Taiwan, more than twenty thousand swimmers went to Sun Moon Lake. Mostswimmers were from Taiwan. There were swimmers from thirty eight othercountries too!超過 2 萬個游泳者湧進日月潭,他們不只來自台灣各地,還有其他 38 個國家的選手!Click HERE to see the full episode transcript, including a vocabulary list and quiz!

Dec 26, 2024 • 5min
Australia Saves Island Sea Turtles
Australia Saves Island Sea TurtlesDeer are cute. But on one island in Australia, they caused problems. 鹿是一種很可愛的動物,但牠們在澳洲的小島造成麻煩!Click HERE to see the full episode transcript!