Language Audiobooks

Talk Like TED

By: Carmine Gallo
Narrated by: Carmine Gallo
Length: 7 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No

Ideas are the currency of the twenty-first century. In order to succeed, you need to be able to sell your ideas persuasively. This ability is the single greatest skill that will help you accomplish your dreams. Many people have a fear of public speaking or are insecure about their ability to give a successful presentation. Now public speaking... Read More »

Drive Time Spanish: Beginner Level

By: Living Language
Length: 4 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No

Learn Spanish while running errands, commuting or even while working out! This Spanish language course is easy and convenient in an all-audio format.

Drive Time Spanish is the easiest way to learn Spanish vocabulary, to learn Spanish grammar, to learn Spanish pronunciation, conversation and even Spanish culture — all without a book. The experts... Read More »

The Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips to Clean Up Your Writing

By: Mignon Fogarty
Narrated by: Mignon Fogarty
Length: 1 hour 5 minutes
Abridged: No

Mignon Fogarty can't remember whether it was a misused semicolon, a chronic case of comma splicing, or an "affect" when an "effect" was called for, but at some point she had seen one mangled sentence too many. Determined to counter the slipping standards of good writing in daily discourse, Mignon created a weekly podcast called Grammar Girl's... Read More »

How to Write Short

By: Roy Peter Clark
Narrated by: Roy Peter Clark
Length: 5 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No

America's most influential writing teacher offers an engaging and practical guide to effective short-form writing. In HOW TO WRITE SHORT, Roy Peter Clark turns his attention to the art of painting a thousand pictures with just a few words. Short forms of writing have always existed-from ship logs and telegrams to prayers and haikus. But in this... Read More »

Behind the Wheel Express - French 1

By: Mark Frobose & Behind the Wheel
Narrated by: Mark Frobose
Length: 2 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No

Behind the Wheel Express French covers beginning to intermediate level French, providing a flexible, solid and universal foundation in speaking, understanding, and creatively expressing yourself in French. The program features an English speaking instructor to guide you through the lessons and native speakers to aid with your pronunciation.

This... Read More »

Behind the Wheel - Mandarin Chinese 1

By: Mark Frobose & Behind the Wheel
Narrated by: Mark Frobose
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No

Behind the Wheel Chinese Level 1 covers beginning to intermediate level Mandarin, providing a flexible, solid and universal foundation in speaking, understanding, and creatively expressing yourself in Mandarin Chinese. An easy-to-understand companion book is provided in phonetic Pinyin, a system of representing Chinese using the English... Read More »

Behind the Wheel - Spanish 1

By: Mark Frobose & Behind the Wheel
Narrated by: Mark Frobose
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No

Behind the Wheel Spanish Level 1 covers beginning to intermediate level Spanish, providing a flexible, solid and universal foundation in speaking, understanding, and creatively expressing yourself in Spanish. The program features an English speaking instructor to guide you through the lessons and two native Latin American Spanish speakers to aid... Read More »

Behind the Wheel Express - Italian 1

By: Mark Frobose & Behind the Wheel
Narrated by: Mark Frobose
Length: 2 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No

Behind the Wheel Express Italian covers beginning to intermediate level Italian, providing a flexible, solid and universal foundation in speaking, understanding, and creatively expressing yourself in Italian. The program features an English speaking instructor to guide you through the lessons and native speakers to aid with your pronunciation.... Read More »

In Other Words

By: Jhumpa Lahiri & Ann Goldstein
Narrated by: Jhumpa Lahiri
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No

From the best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful nonfiction debut—an “honest, engaging, and very moving account of a writer searching for herself in words.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred)

In Other Words is a revelation. It is at heart a love story—of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession:... Read More »

On Writing

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Stephen King
Length: 8 hours
Abridged: No

"If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write."

Here is Stephen King's master class on his craft.
On Writing begins with a mesmerizing account of King's childhood and his early focus on writing to tell a story. A series of vivid memories from adolescence, college, and the struggling years that led up to his... Read More »

Stein on Writing

By: Sol Stein
Narrated by: Christopher Lane
Length: 11 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No

Stein on Writing provides immediately useful advice for writers of fiction and nonfiction, whether newcomers or accomplished professionals. As Sol Stein, renowned editor, author, and instructor, explains, "This is not a book of theory. It is a book of usable solutions-how to fix writing that is flawed, how to improve writing that is good, how to... Read More »

All-Audio Spanish

By: Living Language
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No

LEARN SPANISH ON THE GO–LEARN ANYWHERE
If you have trouble finding time to fit in language lessons, All-Audio Spanish is the perfect solution. Developed by the experts at Living Language®, this program is designed for people on the move. You can learn Spanish as you drive, work around the house, or exercise at the gym.

SHORT, EASY-TO-FOLLOW... Read More »

The Mother Tongue

By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No

With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson—the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent—brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells... Read More »

Long Story Short

By: Margot Leitman
Narrated by: Margot Leitman
Length: 4 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No

This is a practical storytelling guide from comedian, winner of multiple Moth storytelling competitions, and founder of the Upright Citizens Brigade storytelling program Margot Leitman. Did you ever wish you could tell a story that leaves others spellbound? Storytelling teacher and champion Margot Leitman will show you how! With a fun,... Read More »

Letters to a Young Writer

By: Colum McCann
Narrated by: Colum McCann
Length: 2 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of the National Book Award winner Let the Great World Spin comes the perfect graduation gift: a lesson in how to be a writer, and so much more.

Intriguing and inspirational, this book is a call to look outward rather than inward. McCann asks his readers to constantly push the boundaries of experience, to see empathy... Read More »

Where the Past Begins

By: Amy Tan
Narrated by: Amy Tan & Daniel Halpern
Length: 14 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No

In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan reveals herself in a way she never has before, delving into her childhood, adolescence, family history, beginnings as a writer and professional life to explore the answers to questions of purpose and meaning that we all ask ourselves as we get... Read More »

The Etymologicon

By: Mark Forsyth
Narrated by: Don Hagen
Length: 7 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No

Do you know why… …a mortgage is literally a death pledge? …why guns have girls’ names? …why salt is related to soldier? You’re about to find out… The Etymologicon (e-t?-‘mä-lä-ji-kän) is: *Witty (wi-te\): Full of clever humor *Erudite (er-?-dit): Showing knowledge *Ribald (ri-b?ld): Crude, offensive The Etymologicon is a completely... Read More »

Spanish in Minutes

By: Made for Success
Narrated by: Liv Montgomery & Kevin McLeod
Length: 2 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No

Learn how to study Spanish! Imagine if you could instantly build your foreign language skills and have fun at the same time-now you can. The Spanish in Minutes Instant Language series takes a fun, entertaining, and scientific approach to learning Spanish. With the award-winning Liv Montgomery as your verbal tour guide, you'll learn how to study... Read More »

Wired for Story

By: Lisa Cron
Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No

Imagine knowing what the brain craves from every tale it encounters, what fuels the success of any great story, and what keeps readers transfixed. Wired for Story reveals these cognitive secrets—and it's a game-changer for anyone who has ever set pen to paper. The vast majority of writing advice focuses on "writing well" as if it were the same... Read More »

We Need to Talk

By: Celeste Headlee
Narrated by: Celeste Headlee
Length: 5 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No

“WE NEED TO TALK.”

They are, perhaps, the most dreaded four words in the English language. But in her timely, insightful, and wonderfully practical audiobook, We Need to Talk, Celeste Headlee—who earns a living by talking on the airwaves of National Public Radio—makes the case that they are urgently needed.

Today most of us communicate from behind... Read More »

The Art of Language Invention

By: David J. Peterson
Narrated by: David J. Peterson
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No

An insider’s tour through the construction of invented languages from the bestselling author and creator of languages for the HBO series Game of Thrones and the Syfy series Defiance

From master language creator David J. Peterson comes a creative guide to language construction for sci-fi and fantasy fans, writers, game creators, and language... Read More »

Letters to a Young Poet

By: Rainer Maria Rilke
Narrated by: Marc Allen
Length: 1 hour 50 minutes
Abridged: No

These have been called the most famous and beloved letters of the past century. Rainer Maria Rilke himself said that much of his creative expression went into his correspondence, and here he touches upon a wide range of subjects that will interest writers, artists, and thinkers.

This luminous translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's classic offers... Read More »

The Language Instinct

By: Steven Pinker
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
Length: 18 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No

In this classic, the world’s expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling... Read More »

Behind the Wheel - French 2

By: Mark Frobose & Behind the Wheel
Narrated by: Mark Frobose
Length: 6 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No

Vivez bien, aimez beaucoup, riez souvent. (Live well, love much, laugh often.) As a French language learner, you know that there is something magical about being able to express yourself in this beautiful language. Now Behind the Wheel French 2 invites you to practice your foundational French with lessons and stories based around real life... Read More »