Welcome to Learning English, a daily 30-minute program from the Voice of America.

I'm Katie Weaver.

And I'm Mario Ritter Jr.

This program is designed for English learners, so we speak a little slower and we use words and phrases, especially written for people

learning English.

On today's program, John Russell reports on the European Climate Agency's latest announcement

about the world's temperature.

Jill Robbins has a lesson on pronouncing names correctly.

Brian Lynn has the latest on legal action over TikTok, then The Lesson of the day. But first. A recent report by the European

Climate Service Copernicus says that November was the second warmest November for which the agency

has records. The finding means that Copernicus will likely declare

24 the hottest year ever measured using its sets of data. Copernicus called last year the hottest

on record. But after this summer, scientists involved

in the effort were expecting that 2024 would set a new record. In November, the global temperature

was 14.10 Celsius.

Through November, this year's average global temperature is 0.14 degrees Celsius above the same

period last year.

Jennifer Francis is a climate scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center in the

Northeastern U.S. state of Massachusetts. Francis, who was not involved in the report, said the big

story about November is that, like 2023, it beat out previous

November's by a large margin.

The report said 2024 will likely be the first year in which the average temperature

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