Audiobooks are becoming some of the most popular ways to use media. They help people learn languages and advance their vocabulary as they listen. Beyond this, the experience of learning through the audiobook is deepened by tiered pronunciation, with each tier describing a native speaker's accent.
While an audio podcast is great for free-style listening, an audio book offers opportunities for active engagement that you might miss in a podcast or on your run.
WHAT IS AUDIO? There is some discussion about which word should be used for audiobooks - "audio or Speech" The term spoken word refers to sentences that are not read from a script but are spoken directly from one person to another without any noticeable interruptions during speech production between silence or A lot of times its distracting because it would otherwise break the human connection between listener and speaker.
An Elementary Greek Grammar - Raphael KΓΌhner
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An Elementary Greek Grammar - Raphael KΓΌhner
We have followed the Grammars of KΓΌhner, known as his "Large" and "School" Grammars. [...] Omitting the learned dissertations and numerous details of the original, we have endeavored to furnish to the student, in a concise and simple form, whatever...
Arabic Primer - Sir Arthur Cotton
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Arabic Primer - Sir Arthur Cotton
βLanguagesβ, Sir Arthur Cotton writes, βare usually learnt as if it took a long time to learn the grammar &c., but that to speak with a good pronunciation and expression, and freely, and to catch the words from a speaker by the ear were easily...
A Brief Grammar of the Portuguese Language - John Casper Branner
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A Brief Grammar of the Portuguese Language - John Casper Branner
Dr. Branner was a recognized authority on the geology of South American republics, especially Brazil, having organized and headed the Stanford Expedition to Brazil in 1911, among others. In 1910 he published this "little book", as the author himself...
The Esperanto Teacher - Helen Fryer
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The Esperanto Teacher - Helen Fryer
The international language Esperanto was first released to the world in 1887, when L. L. Zamenhof published his first book, "Dr. Esperanto's International Language". Since that time, many learning books have been developed to help the beginner...
Grammar-Land - M. L. NESBITT
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Grammar-Land - M. L. NESBITT
In this charming 1877 book of grammar instruction for children, we are introduced to the nine parts of speech and learn about the rules that govern them in Grammar-Land. "Judge Grammar is far mightier than any Fairy Queen, for he rules over real...
An Introduction to the Greek of the New Testament - George Lovell CARY
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An Introduction to the Greek of the New Testament - George Lovell CARY
A collection of lessons (primarily in grammar) for New Testament Greek (also known as Koine) collected by a professor at Meadville Theological School of Pennsylvania. There are over 80 short lessons, each covering an aspect of verbs, nouns, etc....
An Irishman's difficulties with the Dutch language - CUEY-NA-GAEL
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An Irishman's difficulties with the Dutch language - CUEY-NA-GAEL
- Author: CUEY-NA-GAEL
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Language learning
Jack O'Neill, an Irishman, has just returned from a month's holiday in The Netherlands. Before he left, he had boasted to his friends that he would learn the Dutch language within a fortnight. On his return, he has to admit that it wasn't quite that...
The Comic English Grammar - Percival LEIGH
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The Comic English Grammar - Percival LEIGH
This is a basic grammar, treating of the parts of speech, syntax, versification, pronunciation and punctuation. The listener is warned that there is quite a dated feel about this little grammar as the author, in keeping with the times (1840), is a...
Celebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol 1. - Aesop
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Celebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol 1. - Aesop
- Author: Aesop
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Education / Language learning
A celebration of all the wonderful dialects and accents found within the Librivox community!The goal being to record a 'phonetically relevant' text by as many volunteers as possible, and make this dialect/accent 'database' available to the world, by...
Celebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol 2. - Aesop
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Celebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol 2. - Aesop
- Author: Aesop
- Genre: Language learning
A celebration of all the wonderful dialects and accents found within the Librivox community!The goal being to record a 'phonetically relevant' text by as many volunteers as possible, and make this dialect/accent 'database' available to the world, by...
English as She is Wrote - Anonymous
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English as She is Wrote - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Humor / Writing & Linguistics / Language learning
"...Showing Curious ways in which the English Language may be made to convey Ideas or obscure them." A collection of unintentionally humorous uses of the English language. Sections of the work: How she is wrote by the Inaccurate, By Advertisers and...
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases - Grenville KLEISER
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Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases - Grenville KLEISER
A Practical Handbook of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, and Oratorical Terms, for the Embellishment of Speech and Literature, and The Improvement of the Vocabulary of Those Persons Who Read, Write, and...
The Elements of Style - William STRUNK, JR.
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The Elements of Style - William STRUNK, JR.
βThe Elements of Style (1918) by William Strunk, Jr. is an American English writing style guide. It is one of the best-known and most influential prescriptive treatment of English grammar and usage, and often is required reading in U.S. high school...
The Chaos - Gerald Nolst TrenitΓ©
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The Chaos - Gerald Nolst TrenitΓ©
"The Chaos" is a poem which demonstrates the irregularity of English spelling and pronunciation, written by Gerard Nolst TrenitΓ© (1870-1946), also known under the pseudonym Charivarius. It first appeared in an appendix to the author's 1920 textbook...