Language audiobooks

A Way With Words II

By: Michael Drout

Narrated by: Michael Drout

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In A Way with Words:Writing, Rhetoric, and the Art of Persuasion, widely published professor Michael D.C. Drout embarked on a thought-provoking investigation into the role of rhetoric in our world. Now, in A Way with Words II: Approaches to Literature, the renowned literary scholar leads a series of lectures that focus on the big questions of... Read more

Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

By: Mignon Fogarty

Narrated by: Mignon Fogarty

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Mignon Fogarty, a.k.a. Grammar Girl, is determined to wipe out bad grammar—but she's also determined to make the process as painless as possible. One year ago, she created a weekly podcast to tackle some of the most common mistakes people make while communicating. More than seven million episodes have now been downloaded, and Mignon has... Read more

Making Your Point - Abridged

By: David Bartlett

Narrated by: Jonathan Coleman

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Making Your Point provides the secrets of sharper, better, and more influential speaking and writing tips from leading strategic communications expert David Bartlett.

We all need to speak, write and communicate more effectively. Dave Bartlett shares his decades of experience as a strategic communications consultant in an accessible, easy to apply... Read more

PONS mobil Wortschatztraining Russisch

By: div. & PONS-Redaktion

Narrated by: Yury Kovalev, Irina Kuhn & Inge Spaughton

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Im Auto, beim Joggen oder zu Hause auf dem Sofa: mit PONS mobil Wortschatztraining Russisch erweitern Sie Ihren Wortschatz mühelos. Wie heißt eigentlich "Zum Wohl!" oder was sagen Sie, wenn Sie jemanden einladen möchten? Mit mehr als 450 nützlichen Wörtern und Sätzen in 12 Themenbereichen sind Sie für die wichtigsten Situationen gewappnet.... Read more

PONS mobil Wortschatztraining Chinesisch

By: Jie Tan Spada & PONS-Redaktion

Narrated by: Karin Adam & Jie Tan Spada

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Im Auto, beim Joggen oder zu Hause auf dem Sofa: mit PONS mobil Wortschatztraining Chinesisch erweitern Sie Ihren Wortschatz mühelos. Was heißt eigentlich "Jasmintee" oder was sagen Sie, wenn Sie eine Gabel beim Essen brauchen? Mit mehr als 520 nützlichen Wörtern und Sätzen in 15 Themenbereichen sind Sie für die wichtigsten Situationen... Read more

PONS mobil Wortschatztraining Japanisch

By: Kayo Funatsu-Böhler, Hiroyuki Ota & PONS-Redaktion

Narrated by: Karin Adam, Toshiko Arai-Sixt, Bettina Höfels, ...

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Im Auto, beim Joggen oder zu Hause auf dem Sofa: Mit PONS mobil Wortschatztraining Japanisch erweitern Sie Ihren Wortschatz mühelos. Was heißt eigentlich "Tintenfisch" oder was sagen Sie, wenn Sie mit Kreditkarte zahlen wollen? Mit mehr als 530 nützlichen Wörtern und Sätzen in 14 Themenbereichen sind Sie für die wichtigsten Situationen... Read more

Langenscheidt Audio-Sprachführer Französisch - Abridged

By: Langenscheidt-Redaktion

Narrated by: Langenscheidt-Redaktion

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wörter und Wendungen für alle wichtigen Situationen auf der Reise Schnell in den wichtigen Urlaubssituationen in der Fremdsprache zurechtkommen – mit dem Langenscheidt Audio-Sprachführer lernt man besonders schnell. Über 80 einzelne reiserelevante Situationen werden intensiv eingeübt – mit konkreten Sätzen, Wörtern und Redewendungen. Beim Hören... Read more

Langenscheidt Audio-Sprachführer Englisch - Abridged

By: Langenscheidt-Redaktion

Narrated by: div.

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wörter und Wendungen für alle wichtigen Situationen auf der Reise. Schnell in den wichtigen Urlaubssituationen in der Fremdsprache zurechtkommen – mit dem Langenscheidt Audio-Sprachführer lernt man besonders schnell. Über 80 einzelne reiserelevante Situationen werden intensiv eingeübt – mit konkreten Sätzen, Wörtern und Redewendungen. Beim Hören... Read more

Langenscheidt Audio-Sprachführer Russisch - Abridged

By: Langenscheidt-Redaktion

Narrated by: div.

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Schnell in den wichtigen Urlaubssituationen in der Fremdsprache zurechtkommen – mit dem Langenscheidt Audio-Sprachführer lernt man besonders schnell. Über 80 einzelne reiserelevante Situationen werden intensiv eingeübt – mit konkreten Sätzen, Wörtern und Redewendungen. - Vermittelt die wichtigsten Redewendungen und Wörter zu typischen... Read more

Talking with Confidence for the Painfully Shy - Abridged

By: Don Gabor

Narrated by: Don Gabor

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

s much about "speaking in public" as it is about "public speaking, " Talking with Confidence for the Painfully Shy can help even the most shy person speak up and speak out in any business or social situation. Read more

There's Room For Me Here

By: Janet Allen & Kyle Gonzalez

Narrated by: Kate Forbes & Ruth Ann Phimister

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

What do you do with your students who can't--or won't--read and write? In this practical book, award-winning teachers, Janet Allen and Kyle Gonzales share classroom-tested strategies for motivating and helping young people to become literate. Read more

Last Chance

By: Phillip Burrows & Mark Foster

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

'How can Mr Frank be angry now?' thinks Mike happily. His film is good and he is the only cameraman on the volcano. Now he can go home. But then he finds Jenny and she is dying. Rocks start to move and Mike is afraid. Can they get off the volcano alive? And what happens to Mike's camera and film? Read more

The Riddle of the Sands

By: Erskine Childers & Peter Hawkins

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

When Carruthers joins his friend Arthur Davies on his yacht Dulcibella, he is expecting a pleasant sailing holiday in the Baltic Sea. But the holiday turns into an adventure of a different kind. He and Davies soon find themselves sailing in the stormy waters of the North Sea, exploring the channels and sandbanks around the German Frisian... Read more

Lord Jim

By: Joseph Conrad & Clare West

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A hundred years ago a seaman's life was full of danger, but Jim, the first mate on board the Patna, is not afraid of danger. He is young, strong, confident of his bravery. He dreams of great adventures - and the chance to show the world what a hero he is. But the sea is no place for dreamers. When the chance comes, on a calm moonlit night in... Read more

PONS mobil Wortschatztraining Polnisch

By: div. & PONS-Redaktion

Narrated by: Inge Spaughton, Kamilla Tarasiewicz & Igor Wrób...

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Im Auto, beim Joggen oder zu Hause auf dem Sofa - mit PONS mobil Wortschatztraining Polnisch erweitern Sie Ihren Wortschatz mühelos! Was heißt eigentlich "Rote-Bete-Suppe" oder was sagen Sie, wenn Sie einen Arzt brauchen? Mit mehr als 450 nützlichen Wörtern und Sätzen in 13 Themenbereichen sind Sie für die wichtigsten Situationen gewappnet.... Read more

Ethan Frome

By: Edith Wharton & Susan Kingsley

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Life is always hard for the poor, in any place and at any time. Ethan Frome is a farmer in Massachusetts. He works long hours every day, but his farm makes very little money. His wife, Zeena, is a thin, grey woman, always complaining, and only interested in her own ill health. Then Mattie Silver, a young cousin, comes to live with the Fromes, to... Read more

The Age of Innocence

By: Edith Wharton & Clare West

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Into the narrow social world of New York in the 1870s comes Countess Ellen Olenska, surrounded by shocked whispers about her failed marriage to a rich Polish Count. A woman who leaves her husband can never be accepted in polite society. Newland Archer is engaged to young May Welland, but the beautiful and mysterious Countess needs his help. He... Read more

Bronte Story

By: Tim Vicary

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

On a September day in 1821, in the church of a Yorkshire village, a man and six children stood around a grave. They were burying a woman: the man's wife, the children's mother. The children were all very young, and within a few years the two oldest were dead, too. Close to the wild beauty of the Yorkshire moors, the father brought up his young... Read more

The Card

By: Arnold Bennett & Nick Bullard

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Every town should have a 'card' - someone who gets talked about, someone who does mad and wonderful things, someone who makes you laugh. Bursley in the Five Towns has a 'card': Edward Henry Machin (Denry for short). Denry begins life in a poor little house where the rent is twenty-three pence a week. But before he's thirty, he's made a lot of... Read more

The Garden Party and Other Stories

By: Katherine Mansfield & Rosalie Kerr

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Oh, how delightful it is to fall in love for the first time! How exciting to go to your first dance when you are a girl of eighteen! But life can also be hard and cruel, if you are young and inexperienced and travelling alone across Europe ...or if you are a child from the wrong social class ...or a singer without work and the rent to be paid.... Read more

Vanity Fair

By: William Thackeray & Diane Mowat

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

When Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley leave school, their feet are set on very different paths. Kind, foolish Amelia returns to her comfortable home and wealthy family, to await a suitable marriage, while Becky must look out for herself, earning her own living in a hard world. But Becky is neither kind nor foolish, and with her quick brain and keen... Read more

The Wind in the Willows

By: Kenneth Grahame & Jennifer Bassett

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Down by the river bank, where the wind whispers through the willow trees, is a very pleasant place to have a lunch party with a few friends. But life is not always so peaceful for the Mole and the Water Rat. There is the time, for example, when Toad gets interested in motor-cars - goes mad about them in fact ...The story of the adventures of... Read more

The Three Strangers and Other Stories

By: Thomas Hardy & Clare West

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

On a stormy winter night, a stranger knocks at the door of a shepherd's cottage. He is cold and hungry, and wants to get out of the rain. He is welcomed inside, but he does not give his name or his business. Who is he, and where has he come from? And he is only the first visitor to call at the cottage that night ...In these three short stories,... Read more

Rapid Arabic (Vol. 1)

By: Earworms Learning

Narrated by: Riem Elfar & Marlon Lodge

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Earworms MBT Rapid Arabic - your personal audio language trainer with 200+ essential words and phrases anchored into your long-term memory with great music! Volume 1 is your survival kit for use when travelling abroad on a business trip or vacation. Read more