Language audiobooks

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

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

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: Ruth Ann Phimister & Kate Forbes

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

Men Are Like Waffles Women Are Like Spaghetti

By: Bill Farrel & Pam Farrel

Narrated by: Bill Farrel & Pam Farrel

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Breakfast food or dinner dish? You and your spouse are delightfully different. Men process like waffles. They think and act by moving from box to box. They enter a box, size up the single problem, and formulate a solution.Women process life like a plate of spaghetti. Each issue is like an individual noodle that touches every other noodle on the... 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

Chinesisch für Anfänger

By: Dr. Wolf Baus, Dr. Mu Gu & Jürgen Hoeren

Narrated by: Dr. Baus Wolf, Dr. Gu Mu & Jürgen Hoeren

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Vielleicht planen Sie eine Tour nach China, gleichgültig, ob als Geschäftsreisender oder Tourist. Englisch allein reicht nicht aus, um sich dort verständigen zu können. Unser Sprachkurs hilft Ihnen, sich in kürzester Zeit sprachlich fit zu machen: Nach 70 Folgen werden Sie fragen können, wo sie eine Toilette finden oder wo sie ein Bier kaufen... Read more

The Railway Children

By: Edith Nesbit & John Escott

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

'We have to leave our house in London,' Mother said to the children. 'We're going to live in the country, in a little house near a railway line.' And so begins a new life for Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis. They become the railway children - they know all the trains, Perks the station porter is their best friend, and they have many adventures on... Read more

William Shakespeare

By: Jennifer Bassett

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

William Shakespeare. Born April 1564, at Stratford-upon-Avon. Died April 1616. Married Anne Hathaway: two daughters, one son. Actor, poet, famous playwright. Wrote nearly forty plays. But what was he like as a man? What did he think about when he rode into London for the first time ...or when he was writing his plays Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet... Read more

The Scarlet Letter

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne & John Escott

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Scarlet is the color of sin, and the letter 'A' stands for 'Adultery'. In the 1600s, in Boston, Massachusetts, love was allowed only between a husband and a wife. A child born outside marriage was a child of sin. Hester Prynne must wear the scarlet letter on her dress for the rest of her life. How can she ever escape from this public shame? What... Read more

David Copperfield

By: Charles Dickens & Clare West

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

'Please, Mr Murdstone! Don't beat me! I've tried to learn my lessons, really I have, sir!' sobs David. Although he is only eight years old, Mr Murdstone does beat him, and David is so frightened that he bites his cruel stepfather's hand. For that, he is kept locked in his room for five days and nights, and nobody is allowed to speak to him. As... Read more

Far from the Madding Crowd

By: Thomas Hardy & Clare West

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Bathsheba Everdene is young, proud, and beautiful. She is an independent woman and can marry any man she chooses - if she chooses. In fact, she likes her independence, and she likes fighting her own battles in a man's world. But it is never wise to ignore the power of love. There are three men who would very much like to marry Bathsheba. When... Read more