Language audiobooks

Rapid Dutch (Vol. 1)

By: Earworms Learning

Narrated by: Andrew Lodge & Martijnje Naziris Rothfusz

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Earworms MBT Rapid Dutch - 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 Volume 2 for more conversational items allowing you to talk about yourself, past, present and... Read more

The Art of Conversation - Abridged

By: Catherine Blyth

Narrated by: Catherine Blyth

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Abridged CDs * 2 CDs, 2 hours

A wide-ranging, exhortatory look at the pleasures of great conversation, including strategies for how to bring it about, from the witty pen of an Englishwoman wise in its ways. Read more

The Girl with Red Hair

By: Christine Lindop

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Every day people come to Mason's store - old people, young people, men and women. From his office, and in the store, Mark watches them. And when they leave the store, he forgets them. Then one day a girl with red hair comes to the store, and everything changes for Mark. Now he can't forget the beautiful face, those green eyes, and that red hair... Read more

The Lowdown: Improve Your Speech - American English

By: Mark Caven

Narrated by: Mark Caven

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A guide giving useful tips to help achieve a more professional level of speech. Our speech and voice can say as much about us as the clothes we wear, the car we drive, or even the newspapers and magazines we read. Used properly, speech can help us to achieve a greater level of success. Improve Your Speech is not about individual accents - it is... Read more

The Lowdown: Improve Your Speech - British English

By: David Gwillim & Deirdra Morris

Narrated by: Jamie Glover

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Useful tips to help achieve a more professional level of speech. The way we speak can say as much about us as the clothes we wear, the car we drive, or even the newspapers and magazines we read. We live and work in a global market - but English is still regarded as the international language of business. Clear speech will help you to maximize... Read more

A Way With Words III

By: Michael Drout

Narrated by: Michael Drout

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The answer to this all depends on-you guessed it-grammar. In the third part of his extraordinary Way with Words series, Professor Drout continues to explore humanity's intimate association with language, here delving into the finer points of English grammar. Since others judge you by the way you speak, the intricacies of grammar, in fact, should... Read more

Easy Mandarin Chinese Course for Beginners

By: Collins Dictionaries

Narrated by: Wei Jin

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The perfect Mandarin Chinese course for travel in China. It is designed to help you ask for the things you’re most likely to need when visiting China and to give you the skills to cope with situations you might find yourself in. The accompanying free booklet is also available to download at: collinsdictionary.com/resources. ... Read more

Easy Polish Course for Beginners

By: Collins Dictionaries

Narrated by: Hania Forss

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The perfect Polish course for travel in Poland. It is designed to help you ask for the things you’re most likely to need when visiting Poland and to give you the skills to cope with situations you might find yourself in. The accompanying free booklet is also available to download at: collinsdictionary.com/resources. ... Read more

Behind the Wheel - French 1

By: Behind the Wheel

Narrated by: Mark Frobose

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Behind the Wheel French Level 1 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 a native French speaker to aid with your... Read more

Behind the Wheel - Italian 1

By: Behind the Wheel

Narrated by: Mark Frobose

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Behind the Wheel Italian Level 1 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 a native Italian speaker to aid with your... Read more

Reading the OED

By: Ammon Shea

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

""I'm reading the OED so you don't have to. If you are interested in vocabulary that is both spectacularly useful and beautifully useless, read on...""So reports Ammon Shea, the tireless, word-obsessed, and more than slightly masochistic author of Reading the OED. The word lover's Mount Everest, the OED has enthralled logophiles since its... Read more

Communication Matters II: That's Not What I Meant!

By: Deborah Tannen

Narrated by: Deborah Tannen

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The following series of lectures draws on linguistics, or the scientific study of language, to show the many ways in which language has a profound effect upon human relationships. These lectures address the various aspects and implications of what Professor Tannen calls 'conversational style.' It also looks at the dynamics of specific situations... Read more

Communication Matters I

By: Deborah Tannen

Narrated by: Deborah Tannen

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

When I wrote You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation I didn't know that what everyone would respond to most strongly is the question, "Why don't men like to stop and ask for directions?" (Before the book was published, no one talked about this gender difference; as a result of the book, it is now the ubiquitous subject of jokes,... Read more

You Are Special - Abridged

By: Fred Rogers

Narrated by: Fred Rogers

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The beloved host of PBS’s Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, subject of the acclaimed documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor? and the forthcoming biopic A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood starring Tom Hanks, offers warm words of advice and encouragement, along with reflections on his own childhood

For more than fifty years, Fred Rogers and his... Read more

Behind the Wheel - Spanish 1

By: 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 - Spanish 2

By: Behind the Wheel

Narrated by: Mark Frobose

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Now that you know the basics of Spanish, put your knowledge into practice with the unique stories and dialogue lessons offered in Spanish Level 2. Read a story about a couple in a restaurant and then practice ordering yourself a campechano, maybe a cerveza (o dos!) while you're at it. Or read a dialogue set in a store and then form your own... Read more

You've Got to Be Believed to Be Heard, 2nd Edition - Abridged

By: Bert Decker

Narrated by: Bert Decker

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From Bert Decker, who has trained thousands of business people to communicate better, comes the revised and updated version of his top-selling book You've Got to Be Believed to Be Heard

Effective communication is essential in business and in everyday life. The most powerful communicators reach not just our minds, but our hearts: They win our... Read more

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 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

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

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