B1 English News | How Vietnamese Refugees Built a New Museum in Melbourne

Learn English through today’s real news. Natural-pace English at B1, with a full transcript.

Sunday special: two stories from the English-speaking world from the past week.

In this episode: A new Melbourne museum tells the stories of Vietnamese refugees and the Vietnamese-Australian community. Also: Divers find a critically endangered fan mussel on the seabed off Ireland's coast.

Today’s English focus: can plus a verb = be able to. Vocabulary: seabed (the ground at the bottom of the sea), silt (very fine, soft material at the bottom of water), trawling (fishing by pulling a large net through the water or along the sea floor).

Learn more from today’s episode with the full podcast transcript, vocabulary explanations, and extra learning materials: https://linguawire.com/episodes/english-b1-2026-10-18

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