Other Audios

Listen and Repeat: Do you look the same as you did in high school? (with transcript); Packaged Tours vs Backpacking How Kawabe learned English! More

Practicing the -ed ending in sentences by your teacher (13 min)
Self-Dictations: The Greenhouse Effect (terrible reading!, actually)
Useful sentences for phone conversations: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - answering machine - answering machine 2 - phone dialogue 01 (mp3, 4MB)

Useful sentences for traveling (mp3, 16', 15MB)

Useful sentences by language functions:
Showing impatience
Possibility & Probability
Possibility & Probability examples
Saying how sure you are
Asking for / Making Recommendations
Describing difficulty
Agreeing and challenging opinions
Talking about your background
Reaching a decision / Moving on in a conversation
Describing your language ability
Connecting ideas
Sitting on the fence
Making / Responding to Requests
Asking follow-up questions
Talking about your marks
Expressing expectation & surprise
Introducing a topic and focusing
Sharing experiences

Useful sentences by language structure (Drilling and other):
That was very kind of you!
That sounds great!
Though / Although
Frequency Phrases (sintagmas)
-ing / -ed adjectives
So & Anyway
Not that late!

People talking about their life in England (yes, England!)

Interviews: selected interviews here, more interviews at Radios here and at Wired for Books where you'll find interviews to writers.

Sound Portraits (audios and transcripts). Listen to Ghetto Life

The BBC's Free Learning English Downloads (audio and pdf files)
Download audio and transcript on the word "gobsmacked" (BBC)

Easy News
Listen to the Instructions. If you can't, open the menu entitled "Select a category". Then select "Instructions" to listen to how to use these audios. You can listen, read and check the meaning of words!
After that, scroll downwards till you see "Easy News". Select it and keep selecting things as they appear. If you have any question, ask me.

Listening Downloads at the British Council Website