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The Verb Page – verbal phrases 2 I have just finished my lunch. I just finished my lunch. I just ate. Which one did you hear? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Advertising Industry is Responsible Interviewer: Ponderosa Pine! How did you get that name? Environmental Activist: I gave it to myself in 1972. I had moved back to California from New Mexico where I became really fond of that tree and then I learned it is the most susceptible of California trees to smog and that it was in trouble [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Easy English 151 – Being Knowing Bliss Download audio file (BeingKnowingBliss1.mp3) (the sound of a violin) We are here and we are happy. Being I am. (being) I exist. (existence) I am. (being) I know I am. (being and knowing) I am here. (being here) I know I am here. (complex sentence)(I know that I am here) I am. I know I [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website I would love to hang out with you! The mantra is a very very powerful opening into the soul … See, Your soul is like constantly calling you and saying: “I miss you. Where are you? Why do you keep running round? Why don’t you come home? I have this wonderful meal cooked for you. I would love to hang out with you. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Japanese Farmer – Listen and Write Download audio file (fdsample1.mp3) at EugeniusD80 This recording is a sample of Episode One of The Farmer’s Dream. You should listen to the recording and write down what the man and little girl say: Man: Little Girl: Man: Storyteller: The Farmers Dream … Episode One. Man: Storyteller: The dream of the Japanese farmer Man: Storyteller: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Story of America – The Wild West Listen to the videos and answer the questions. (You can write your answers in the comments section at the bottom of the page) America was a British colony. The first settlements were in the west. European Americans gradually spread west. The west was wild and dangerous and rugged so it was called The Wild West. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Story of the USA – North and South at By Graphic Lab via Wikimedia Commons Read and listen and write your answers in the comments section at the bottom of the page. The Civil War The story of the USA is a long and complicated story. The story has many chapters and many themes. One of the important events in the history of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Carmen – Episode 5 Download audio file (carmen5.mp3) cover art by Stan Alec Roberts Download the entire Carmen course. This is Episode 5 of Carmen, a self-study listening and speaking Interactive Story course for intermediate level English language learners. Just listen to the story and answer the questions aloud. Episode 5 – The Kiss of Passion Suddenly the moonlight [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Story of America How did America become what it is today? Why is English spoken in England and America? How is it possible that America is such a diverse country? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Story of an American Actor – Episode 1 Marlon Brando was an actor. He was a great actor. Some people say he was the greatest actor of the twentieth century. Which actors do you like? Do you think stage acting and film acting are very different? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Ramayana – Episode 1 This is Episode 1 of The Ramayana, a self-study listening and speaking Interactive Story course for intermediate level English language learners. Just listen to the story and answer the questions aloud. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Adventures of Roy Bean – Episode 1 This is Episode 1 of The Adventures of Roy Bean, a self-study listening and speaking Interactive Story course for intermediate level English language learners. Just listen to the story and answer the questions aloud. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Odyssey – Episode 6 sample Odysseus and his men had to sail past the rocks where the Sirens lived. The Sirens were beautiful mermaids who charmed sailors with their songs. Are you any good at singing? Anybody who heard them sing would be hypnotized. He would jump overboard and swim to them. He would be killed on the rocks. What do you do if you are driving and you hear an ambulance sire Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mosquito City – Part 42 – I have to get out of this hotel Download audio file (anlimc42.mp3) at Irp Frank’s friends were not able to help Mark find an apartment so he asked his friend Peter for help. Mark: So Peter I really need to get out of this hotel and get my own place. Down in Brooklyn, you said, was a nice place to find an apartment. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Easy English 200 – Speaking and Listening – Introduction Download audio file (talking1.mp3) at National Library Scotland This is a different type of lesson. There is no transcript. Listen carefully. Answer the questions. Answer the questions aloud. If you don’t understand the first time, listen again and again until it becomes easy and natural. Listen until you can answer all the questions easily and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Life in Mosquito City – part 40 – Let’s have a look at the menu Download audio file (anlimc40waiter.mp3) at denis collette Waiter: Hello. Would you like to drink something? Frank: Yes. Ok. Let’s have a look at the menu. There is cafe au lait, cappuccino, American…American coffee. Mark, what do you want? Mark: I think I’ll have a latte, please. Frank: A latte? Yeah? Ok. Fine. A caramel latte? [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Business Trip – Easy English Business Course The Business Trip is a 54-episode course in Easy Business English that you can download for free. Here are the first three episodes: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Children of Kenji Takeuchi: Episode 12 – Listen and Write The is a sample of the Interactive Story Course, called The Children of Kenji Takeuchi, for upper-intermediate level learners. It is a clip from Episode 12 - The Indiscretion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How do you make feijoada? Learn how to cook Brazilian food. Mark: Fresh or seeds or ...? Brazilian Neighbour: Fresh. Fresh. Mark: The leaves? Brazilian Neighbour: The leaves. Yeah. You put it right in the end. Mark: Right. OK. Wow! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Life in Mosquito City – part 39 – Here he comes Mark waits for Frank in a cafe. Frank turns up. They are going to eat. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Almanac – 24 August 2010 – Tuesday On this day in history, in the year 79 A.D. the volcano, Mt. Vesuvius, erupted in Southern Italy, devastating the prosperous Roman Cities of Pompeii and Hurculaneum, killing thousands of people. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Life in Mosquito City – part 38 – The Cafe Mark: Ok well here I am. I am just walking in to the…I am just walkin' in to the Brooklyn Cafe down in Brooklyn, Mosquito City and someone is playing the harmonica in the corner here. This is like… a nice place. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Almanac – 23 August 2010 – Monday Read the text first, then listen to the audio at the bottom of the page. Good morning. It’s Monday, August 23, 2010. THE WEATHER And now for the weather in Kyoto: It will be partly cloudy, with ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Life in Mosquito City – part 37 – Driving under the Overpass Mark: OK. well. I am sitting in Frank’s car and we are just driving under the overpass and we have just left Mosquito City and we are in Brooklyn now and there is the fire station on my right. We are turning left. Is that public housing? Frank: Oh no. No. I am going to stop here. You just…I will let you off and you get a table in the cafe and I will see you later. Mark: OK. OK. I will see you in a minute. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Almanac – 20 August 2010 – Friday What are you growing at the moment? Are you growing any of these? What is your garden like? What's your garden like? Which one is the odd one out? Which one is the odd one out and why? How important is an impartial media? How important is an impartial media and why? What did he do? Where did he do it? What did he do and where did he do it? What is the difference? What is the difference between them? Look at this scale: irrelevant unimportant of minor importance of some importance importa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Almanac – 19 August 2010 – Thursday a source of embarrassment a source of pride a source of concern a source of joy a source of strength a source of information a source of diplomatic tension Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Almanac – 17 August 2010 – Tuesday It is clear and it is not windy. The wind has died down. It is cold. It is still quite cold but the weather is getting warmer. Spring is coming. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Almanac – 15 August 2010 – Sunday Good Morning! It is the fifteenth of August 2010. It is Sunday. THE WEATHER (from Mt Tamborine) It is fine. The sky is clear. It is not windy. It is clear and completely still. It is cold. It is very cold. It is the end of winter here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Almanac – 14 August 2010 – Saturday Good Morning! It is the fourteenth of August 2010. It is Saturday. THE WEATHER (from Mt Tamborine) It is fine. The sky is clear. It is not windy. Yesterday the wind died down in the afternoon and today there is no wind. It is clear and completely still. Look at these opposites: The wind picked up. The wind died down. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Almanac – 13 August 2010 – Friday Good Morning! It is the thirteenth of August 2010. It is Friday. THE WEATHER (from Mt Tamborine) It is fine. The sky is clear. It is very windy. Yesterday the wind picked up in the afternoon and there was very strong wind during the night. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Almanac – 12 August 2010 – Thursday Good Morning! It is the twelfth of August 2010. It is Thursday. Today is the beginning of Ramadan. Ramadan begins when you see the crescent moon in the sky in the early evening. Muslims will fast from dawn to sunset during this lunar month. Look at these expressions: lunar month (calculated by the movement of the moon) solar month (calculated by the movement of the sun) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Almanac – 11 August 2010 – Wednesday Good Morning! It is the eleventh of August 2010. It is Wednesday. On this day in 3114 BC – The Mayan Calendar begins. THE WEATHER (from Mount Tamborine) It is raining. It is still raining. It has been raining since yesterday. It rained all day yesterday and it rained all night last night and it is still raining. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Almanac – 10 August 2010 – Tuesday Good Morning! It is Tuesday the tenth of August 2010. It is a new moon. That means there will be no moon visible tonight. THE WEATHER (from Mt Tamborine) It is raining. It is raining steadily. It is not raining heavily. It is raining steadily. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Life in Mosquito City – part 36 – The Car Download audio file (anlimc36car.mp3) at Library of Congress Mark: Ok. I am finished work. It is five twenty-five and I am ready to…I am going to go down to Brooklyn with my boss, Frank and he is ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bilingual – English and Flemish – 1 Download audio file (flemish1.mp3) Use this post to learn English and Flemish at the same time. Where are you from? I come from Belgium. Which language do you speak? I speak Flemish. How many languages are there in Belgium? There are three ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website I pay too much tax! Download audio file (tax.mp3) at cayusa Dutch Guy: … employees. I pay fifty two percent tax. Everyone has free health care. Not me. I pay double the price but I don’t have any treatment. Other Guy: What kind ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Life in Mosquito City – part 35 – At Work Mark: Well here I am at work now at the Mosquito Herald and here is my boss, Frank. Hello Frank. Frank: Mark! Come on in. Mark: How are you today? Frank: I feel great. Mark: Good. Good. Frank: Fantastic. How about yourself? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bilingual – English and Italian – 1 Use this post to learn English and Italian at the same time. Where are you from? I am from Milano. Where is she from? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website That’s how you sit Adult: That's how a puppy dog sits? Child: No. That is how Lilly sits. Adult: M-hm. Does she sit the same way as other puppy dogs? Child: No. Adult: She doesn't? Child: Another puppy dog doesn't sit like this. Adult: Other puppy dogs don't sit like that? Child: Yes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Life in Mosquito City – part 34 – A Dream or Reality? Download audio file (anlimc34reality.mp3) at MorBCN Mark: Hello there Brad. How are you? Brad: Just a moment there. Mark: What are you eating there? Brad: I am eating this delicious apple. Mark: Wow! Brad: Sorry about this. Mark: That is all ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bilingual – English and Tagalog – 2 Download audio file (tagalog2.mp3) Use this post to learn English and Tagalog at the same time. How are you? Good. Very good. How are you? Very very good. Thank you. Where are you going? I am going to the market. Where are you going? I am ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Life in Mosquito City – part 33 – The Dream Download audio file (anlimc33dream.mp3) at MorBCN Mark: Ok. Well. I have been here for a couple of weeks now. In Mosquito City. And I have got a job and I have made friends with the richest man ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bilingual – English and Arabic 3 Download audio file (arabic3.mp3) Use this post to learn English and Arabic at the same time. Where are you going? (Arabic) I am going to the market. Where are you going? I am going home. Where is he going? He is going to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Life in Mosquito City – part 32 – Is everything ok? Download audio file (anlimc32frankispete.mp3) at M J M Mark: Ok. It’s Monday morning and I have to go to work. Ok. I am going to walk to work. Ok. It is not very far. Ok. Here we ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bilingual – English and Albanian 1 Download audio file (albanian1.mp3) Use this post to learn English and Albanian at the same time. I speak English I don’t speak Albanian I want to learn Albanian. Can you speak Albanian? I speak a little Albanian. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bilingual – English and Luritja 1 Download audio file (luritja1.mp3) Use this post to learn English and Luritja at the same time. What do you want? I don’t want anything. What does he want? He wants to learn Luritja. Why? He works with Luritja people. Where is he from? He ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Life in Mosquito City – Part 30 – Meeting People Download audio file (anlimc30stephanie.mp3) at The Library of Congress Mark: Ok. Well here I am. I am standing on the balcony of Sphinx Castle. Peter Bestluck’s castle and…Peter… Peter: Mark, what do you think of the view? Isn’t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bilingual – English, French, Spanish and Italian – 1 Download audio file (3latinlangs.mp3) Use this post to compare three romance languages: What are you doing? French Spanish Italian I am reading a book. French Spanish Italian Which book? (French) (Spanish) (Italian) It’s a book about history. (French) (Spanish) (Italian) What kind of history? (French) (Spanish) (Italian) The history of Europe (French) (Spanish) (Italian) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Life in Mosquito City – Part 29 – A Medieval Castle Download audio file (anlimc29castle.mp3) at Marvin PA Mark: Ok well here I am. I am still in Mosquito City. I have been here about a week now. I have got a job and I have become ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Life in Mosquito City – Part 28 – Mosquito City University In this episode, the journalist from the Mosquito City newspaper speaks with professor Trafalgar, who is an expert on hydrogen powered engines. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Life in Mosquito City – Part 27 – Calling the University Download audio file (anlimc27hef.mp3) at M J M Receptionist: Mosquito City University. Engineering Faculty. Journalist: Hello. My name is Mark is Mark White. I am a journalist for the Mosquito City Herald and I am working on a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Helicopter, a Boat or an Aeroplane Download audio file heliboat.mp3) at MorBCN (the sound of a child crying out) Father: What did you say? Child: (???) Father: What does that mean?… Can hear the boat? Daughter: Yes. (hesitantly) Father: I can hear the boat too. Daughter: It is like ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bilingual – English and Malay – 1 Download audio file (malay1.mp3) I I speak English. I speak Malay. Do you speak Malay? I speak a little Malay. Does he speak Malay? No, he does not. Thank you very much. You are welcome. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Furniture Download audio file (furniture.mp3) at Starr Gazr Father: Come and sit on my lap. Ok so once a upon a time there was a… Little Girl: About this… Father: There was little girl and she came up ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bilingual – English and Arabic – 2 Download audio file (arabic2.mp3) I I speak Arabic You Do you speak Arabic? I speak a little Arabic. I speak Arabic. You speak Arabic. He speaks Arabic. Where are you from? Where are you from? One more time. Where are you from? I am from Oman. Where is he ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Life in Mosquito City – Part 26 – on the Golf course Download audio file (anlimc26golf.mp3) at striatic Mark: Ok. So here I am. I am on the golf course at Mosquito City. I have got the ocean on one side and the jungle on the other. I have ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Life in Mosquito City – Part 25 – A Nepalese Rhino Download audio file (anlimc25rhino.mp3) at nicklawes Mark: Well here I am. I am sitting in the back of a stretch limousine and I am driving along. I am driving down the streets of Mosquito City with the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Assam is very beautiful Download audio file (assam.mp3) at Rita Willaert Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How does India compare to Australia? Download audio file (Calcutta.mp3) at gbaku Mark talked with a veteran of World War Two about his experiences in India Neil: But the countryside was very much like Australia; barren and open and no water. Mark: When were you ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website People and Places – Burke 3 – It gives you a good background Download audio file (burke3.mp3) at ShellyS Mark: So you went to high school in Toronto? Burke: Ahm no actually. I went to elementary school and in grade three I moved to a small town about an hour north ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Water Car: Episode 4 – Listen and Write Download audio file (watercar4clip.mp3) Download the entire Water Car series. This is the first half of Episode 4 of The Water Car, an Interactive Story series for intermediate level English language learners. It focuses on present progressive ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bilingual – English and Slovak – 1 Download audio file (slovak1.mp3) Good morning. How are you? Very good. Where are you going? I am going to work. Where do you work? I work in Southport. Do you like your job? Yes, I do. I like it. I like it very much. Do you ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cockney Accent Download audio file (cockney.mp3) at haversack Londoner: Great Dover Street. SE1. You know Great Dover Street? Near the Bricklayer’s Arms. Ninety-four year old year old Cockney Man: EC1? Londoner: SE1. SE1. Ninety-four year old Cockney Man: SE1. Lovely. Australian: Is that cockney? Londoner: No. No. No. It is halfway between London Bridge and the Elephant and Castle. Borough. Ninety-four year old Cockney Man: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bilingual - English and French - 20 Download audio file (french20.mp3) I went to France. I looked for a job. I couldn’t find a job. I went to another city. I looked for a job again. I found a job. I found a job in a restaurant. I washed dishes. My salary was very low. My work was hard. I studied French. It was really difficult. I learned to speak a little. No Tags Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Life in Mosquito City - Part 24 Download audio file (anlimc24.mp3) at Chicagoeye Mark: Hello there, Mr Bestluck. Peter: Hello. Get into the car. Mark: Nice to see you. Peter:Welcome. Pop in quick. Mark: Thanks a lot. Peter:Great. Mark: Great. Ok. Here we are. Peter:I will just close the door. Ho Ho. Mark: Ok. Peter:And by the way don’t call me Mr Bestluck. You can call me “Peter”. Mark: Ok. Thanks a lot. Peter:Or howabout [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Curing Addiction by Meditation in the “Caves of Truth” Download audio file (addiction.mp3) at Tambako Mark: So John.. John: Yeah. Mark: You are working on a dissertation for a PhD. That is for an American university? John: Yeah, that is right. It is a university in San Francisco, California Mark: And what is the area? John: I am studying..It is philosophy but with an emphasis on Buddhist studies, you know, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bilingual - English and German - 3 Download audio file (german3.mp3) Use this post to learn English and German at the same time. What is that? It is a photograph. Who is that? That is my father. How old is he? He is sixty-five. Where does he live? He lives in Berlin. Who is this? This is my mother. How old is she? She is sixty-one. Do you have a brother? Yes, I do. Where is he? He is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website People and Places - Steve 2 - Born in Brooklyn. Download audio file (steve2.mp3) at Your Guide Mark: So you were born in Brooklyn and you like did you go to high school there? Steve: Correct. Mark: And then you went to university? Steve: University actually was in the Bronx. Mark: Right. That was during the Vietnam war? Steve: Yes. Ahm. Yeah. Mark: And you worked at a high school during the Vietnam [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Life in Mosquito City - Part 23 Download audio file (anlimc23.mp3) at Mark White Brad: Mark what the hell are you doing up this time of the morning? Mark: Hello, Brad. Brad: Oh it is fantastic to see you. Mark: You too. Brad: It is usually about eleven o’clock, isn’t it? Mark: Yes yes but like it is my second day on the job. Brad: Understood. understood. Mark: I am playing [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Health Problems Download audio file (health.mp3) at clstal Mark: I am just sitting here at a cafe in the Pahar Ganj area of New Delhi with Michael. Michael, you are not feeling very good? Michael: No, I am certainly not. Mark: What is the problem? Michael: I got diagnosed with amoebic dysentry about eight nine weeks ago when I was up in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bilingual - English and Serbian - 1 Download audio file (serbian1.mp3) Use this post to learn English and Serbian at the same time. Hello How are you? I am good. And you? Very good Thank you Do you speak Serbian? I speak a little Serbian. Do you speak English? No, I don’t. I don’t speak English. I want to learn English. Thank you very much. See you later. No Tags Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What language do they speak in Jersey? Download audio file (jersey.mp3) at davey-boy Australian: What language do they speak in Jersey? Scotsman: English. Australian: But like they don’t speak French? Scotsman: Jersey patois occasionally. Australian: What is that? Scotsman: A cross between French and English. Australian: Like can French people understand it, do you know? Scotsman: No. English people cannot understand it either. It is indigenous to Jersey. I think they [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Life in Mosquito City - Part 22 Download audio file (anlimc22.mp3) at Chicagoeye Mark: Hello, Mr Bestluck? Peter: Hi there. Come on in. Welcome. Mark: My name is Mark White. Peter: Hi Mark. How are you doing? Mark: Good. Peter: Take a seat on the black leather sofa. Mark: Thanks a lot. Peter: Make yourself comfortable. Mark: Thanks for agreeing to see me today. I am sure you don’t have much time. Peter: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Actually I was born in Hawaii Download audio file (mormon2.mp3) at kanaka pacifica Mark: Elder Tiave, that is not a common English name. What is your ethnic heritage? Elder Tiave: No, I am part Filipino. I am Samoan and Hawaiian. Mark: Wow! Elder Tiave: So I have nothing to do with Cambodia. Mark: But you are a Mormon. Elder Tiave: Yes. I am a Mormon. Mark: And your whole [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bilingual - English and Portuguese - 1 Download audio file (portuguese1.mp3) Use this post to learn English and Portuguese at the same time. Good afternoon How are you? Really good. How are you? Pretty good. Where are you from? I am from Australia. Where are you from? I am from Brazil. No Tags Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Next State Download audio file (connecticut.mp3) at Library of Congress (the sound of a coffee machine) Interviewee: I was born in the UK and when I was two we moved to the United States. Interviewer: Which state did you move to? Interviewee: We first moved to New York City and then we moved to Connecticut which is the next state north from [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bilingual - English and Mongolian - 1 Download audio file (mongolian1.mp3) Use this post to learn English and Mongolian at the same time. I I speak Mongolian You You speak English. He He speaks Chinese. They speak Chinese. They speak Chinese too. Do you speak Chinese? No, I don’t. Do you speak Mongolian? I speak a little Mongolian. Where are you from? I am from Ulan Batur. Where are you from? I am from Australia. Thank you very much Bye bye Hello How [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website I lived in Port Moresby Download audio file (I lived in Port Moresby.mp3) at kabl1992 First Bloke: I was born in Papua New Guinea. I lived there for ten years then I moved to England with my family for two and a half years. After two and a half years we came to Australia and I have been living in Australia since [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Career in Medical Research Download audio file (medical research.mp3) at ton3vita Woman: When I finished school I went to university, Melbourne University, and studied science, a bachelor of science . I then did my honours degree and after that I worked in a heart disease research institute. Man: In Melbourne? Woman: In Melbourne. It is called the Baker Heart Research Institute. So I [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bilingual - English and Turkish - 1 Download audio file (turkish1.mp3) Use this post to learn English and Turkish at the same time. Hello How are you? Good Where are you from? I am from Australia Where are you from? I am from Turkey. How long have you been in Australia? I have been here for six months. Bilingual, greetings, present perfect tense, time and numbers, turkish, turkish and english Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Have you read Swedenborg? Download audio file (scrim.mp3) at ton3vita An American Guy: One of the critical events (in his life) was when he was looking up in the sky and the sky split like a scrim .. you know… like a … there was a scrim of reality and then the whole thing split apart… An Australian Guy: I don’t [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Miyako’s Education - Part 40 Download audio file (miyako40.mp3) at elmada Miyako: John, I’ve decided I’m going to take a year off. I’m going to defer. I have spoken to the head of the department and I have got permission to stop studying at the end of this semester. John: Where are you going to go? What are you going to do? Miyako: I’m [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bilingual - English and Tagalog - 2 Download audio file (tagalog2.mp3) Use this post to learn English and Tagalog at the same time. How are you? Good. Very good. How are you? Very very good. Thank you. Where are you going? I am going to the market. Where are you going? I am going home. Bye bye. Bilinguals, Easy English, home, market, tagalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website People and Places - The Swami - 6 - The Same Thing Download audio file (swami6.mp3) at irp (Swami talks for the first 25 seconds of recording. Then transcript begins.) Mark: So the creation is sustained by prayer? Swami: It is sustained by divine will. It is sustained by divine will and the divine order; the cosmic order. The cosmic order…In the beginning five basic things were created… Mark: The relation with [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bilingual - English and Swedish - 2 Download audio file (swedish2.mp3) Use this post to learn English and Swedish at the same time. I am Swedish. (Swedish) I am not American. (Swedish) I am Swedish. I come from Sweden. I live in Stockholm. I work in Denmark. My wife is Danish. 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Do you speak Finnish? I speak a little Finnish. I want to learn Finnish. I want to go to Finland. I don’t want to go to Sweden. I want to go to Finland. I want to go to Estonia [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bilingual - English and Finnish - 1 Download audio file (finnish1.mp3) Use this post to learn English and Finnish at the same time. I speak Finnish. (Finnish) I don’t speak English. (Finnish) Do you speak English? Do you speak Finnish? I speak a little Finnish. I want to learn Finnish. I want to go to Finland. I don’t want to go to Sweden. I want to go to Finland. I want to go to Estonia [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website People and Places - Burke 2 - And then they went to Europe Download audio file (burke2.mp3) at Monique Hofland Mark: So you came to Toronto when you were about two and a half? Burke: M-hm. Yep. Mark: And your parents, were they Canadian or? 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Indian Lady: No. My maternal grandparents were there so my mother must have gone there for having [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bilingual - English and Afrikaans - 2 Download audio file (afrikaans2.mp3) Use this post to learn English and Afrikaans at the same time. I speak Afrikaans. I come from South Africa. My mother comes from Holland. I live in Australia. I work in Singapore. South Africa was a Dutch colony. South Africa was an English colony. I am hungry. I want to eat. Do you have any food? Thank you. Bread. Cheese. Ham. Chicken. Milk. Butter. Thank you very much. Good night. aryan [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Life in Mosquito City - Part 14 - Could I see the menu, please? Download audio file (anlimc14.mp3) at Mark White Mark: Gee! The people are friendly here in Mosquito City. This is a really nice place. Well. I am hungry. Here we are. I am in the restaurant now. 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(Spanish) No, I have not. (Spanish) See you later. (Spanish) Bye. (Spanish) Ok. (Spanish) adjectives, Bilinguals, conjugations, Easy English, english ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bilingual - English and French - 4 Download audio file (french4canada.mp3) Use this post to learn English and French at the same time. I speak French I speak a little English I come from Canada. I don’t come from France. I come from Quebec. Do you know Quebec? I want to study English in Australia. Have you been to Canada? No, I have not. I have been to France. When did you go? When did [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Life in Mosquito City - Part 13 - I am looking for a place to eat Download audio file (anlimc13.mp3) at Mark White Mark: Well. I am hungry. I am going to go outside and get something to eat. One of the Locals: Hello. How long have you been here? Mark: Hello. Hello. The Local Guy: Hi there. 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Australian Guy: I am really very hungry. English Guy: Oh God, I want…I need something to eat, I tell you. acents, adjectives, adverbs, australian accent, be verb plus adjective, Easy English, exaggeration, food, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Christiania Community in Copenhagen Download audio file (christiania.mp3) at Only Alice Three guys are sitting by the lake in Phnom Penh talking about Christiania and the death of hippie culture in Copenhagen. Mark: Christiana. What year was that? Danish Guy: Christiania was occupied….it was an old military… like… what do you call it …”concessionary” or something like that it. It was [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bilingual - English and Spanish - 4 Download audio file (spanish4visa.mp3) Use this post to learn English and Spanish at the same time. Visa (Spanish) I have a visa. (Spanish) I don’t have a visa. 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I speak Tamil I speak Tamil Do you speak Tamil? I speak a little Tamil. He speaks Tamil. He doesn’t speak Tamil. She doesn’t speak Tamil. I want to learn Tamil. Where are you from? I am from Tamil Nadu. I want to go to Sri Lanka. I don’t want to go [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What is it like in a Dogon Village? Download audio file (luisdogon.mp3) at el rabbit A group of friends start to talk about Dogon villages in Africa and end up talking about nationalism. Mark: What is the Dogon village like? Luis: They are clay… and they are… Mark: Clay houses? Luis: Clay houses. Mark: Round houses? Luis: No. Mark: Square? Luis: No, they are more square [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website When the Khmer Rouge was in Power Download audio file (pahlinterview.mp3) at walt jabsco Mark: So Pahl what part of Cambodia do you come from? Pahl: I come from Kompong Cham Province. Mark: Kompong Cham. 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(Polish) Does he speak Polish? (Polish) Yes, he does. (Polish) I want to learn English. (Polish) I want to learn Polish. (Polish) I want to go to Poland. (Polish) Thank you very much. (Polish) Bye-bye. (Polish) Bilinguals, eastern europe, Easy E ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eran from Israel Download audio file (israelieran.mp3) at Tmuna Fish Mark: So Eran what part of Israel do you come from? Eran: I am from Rishon. Rishon le Zion. Mark: From where? Eran: Rishon le Zion. Mark: How do you spell that? Eran: R-i-s-h-o-n. Mark: Uh-huh. Eran: Would be Rishon. Mark: Uh-huh. Eran:” L-e” it means “for” in Hebrew. Mark: For [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bilingual - English and Telegu - 1 Download audio file (telegu1.mp3) Learn English and learn some Telegu too. Mark: So I will say the English word first… Swami: Ok Ok.What is the capacity of this device? How long can it tape? Mark: Oh. Two gigabytes. Many hours. Swami: Many hours it can tape? Mark: Yeah. Swami: Oh then you should have recorded my voice throughout. Mark: I did a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Miyako�s Education - Part 34 Download audio file (miyako34.mp3) at jslander Miyako: What are you going to order? John: I haven�t decided yet. What about you? What are you going to have? Miyako: I don�t know. I can�t make up my mind. I don�t know what anything is. You�ll have to order for me. John: Do you want to get a few things and eat [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bilingual - English and French - 2 Download audio file (french2.mp3) Where are you from? (French) I am from Australia. (French) Where are you from? (French) I am from France. (French) Have you been to Australia? (French) No I haven’t. (French) Have you been to France? (French) Yes, I have. (French) I want to go to Australia. (French) I want to travel around Australia. (French) How much is a hotel? (French) Ten dollars per night. (French) Twenty dollars per night. (French) I want to stay for two days. (French) I [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In those days it was called the Western Transvaal Download audio file (isabel1.mp3) at pingnews.com Mark: What part of South Africa were you born in? Isabel: In those days it was called the western Transvaal. Mark: Right. Isabel: These days it is called the Northern Province. Mark: The Northern Province. Isabel: Yes. It is west of Johannesburg. About a hundred and sixty kilometers west. Due west [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hitching Around Australia Download audio file (dahi.mp3) at davidgraymaclean Mark: So… so Dahi, what part of Ireland do you come from? Dahi: I am from Cork. It is in the very south. Mark: Is it the southern most part? Dahi: It is the southern most county. It is not the southern most city. Mark: Right ok so you are [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bilingual - English and Irish (Gaelic) - 1 Download audio file (irish1.mp3) Good day (Irish) How are you? (Irish) Good. (Irish) Very good. (Irish) Thank you. (?) Good-bye. (Irish) Good-bye (for the person staying) (Irish) Good-bye (for the person leaving) (Irish) Where are you going? (Irish) I am going to Dublin. (Irish) I want to go to Dublin. (Irish) I don’t want to go to Limerick. (Irish) I want to go to Dublin. (Irish) Where is the bus station? (Irish) Where is the train station? (Irish) Thank You (?) Sorry…Sorry. ( ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Miyako�s Education - Part 33 Download audio file (miyako33.mp3) at tzofia John: Hi Miyako. Miyako: Oh, hello John. How are things? Are we still going to go to the Mexican place on Saturday night? John: Well, I�m still going to go but Hiroko just called and she said she has a big psychology test on Monday and she isn�t going to be [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bilingual - English and Danish - 1 Download audio file (danish1.mp3) I speak English. (Danish) I speak Danish. (Danish) I don’t speak Danish. (Danish) She speaks Danish. (Danish) He speaks Danish. (Danish) Do you speak Danish? (Danish) Yes, I do. (Danish) Do you speak English? (Danish) No, I don’t. (Danish) I want to learn Danish. (Danish) I want to go to Canada. (Danish) I don’t want to go to America. (Danish) I want to go to Denmark. (Danish) I want to live in Denmark. (Danish) I want to study in Denmark ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kath from Surrey Download audio file (kathsurrey.mp3) at Patryck Mark: Sorry what did you say your name was again? Kath: My name is Kath. Short for Katherine. Mark: Katherine. Katherine. 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Mark: Which oil cartel? Guy: OPEC. Mark: OPEC. Right. And they were gonna like stop everything being hitched to the dollar and like..? Guy: No. We could have broke…. When they went into Iraq they could have broke the back [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Miyako�s Education - Part 32 Download audio file (miyako32.mp3) at sherlock77 Hiroko: Hey, John. This is Hiroko. John: Hi, Hiroko. How is it going? Hiroko: All right. Well, actually not so good. John: Why? What�s wrong? Hiroko: Well, we were going to go to the Mexican place on Saturday night� John: Yeah? Hiroko: Well, I�m afraid I can�t go. John: How come? [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bilingual - English and Japanese - 1 Download audio file (japanese1.mp3) You can use this post to learn English and Japanese at the same time. Hello. (Japanese) I do not speak English. (Japanese) I speak Japanese. (Japanese) Do you speak Japanese? (Japanese) No, I don’t. (Japanese) I speak a little Japanese. (Japanese) Do you speak Korean? (Japanese) No, I do not. (Japanese) I want to learn Japanese. (Japanese) I want to go to Japan. (Japanese) I want to study in Japan. (Japanese) I want to work [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website People and Places - The Swami 2 - Twenty-four hours I am on the job Download audio file (swami2.mp3) at Irp Swami: If you are meditating anyway there is a lot of heat. Mark: Mm. Swami: I have a lot of heat so that is why I wear very little (very few) clothes. Mark: Do you meditate all night? Swami: Not all night but in between I get up. I take [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bilingual - English and Hebrew - 1 Download audio file (hebrew1.mp3) You can use this one to learn English and to learn Hebrew simultaneously. water (Hebrew) Do you have any water? (Hebrew) I want some water. (Hebrew) I am thirsty. 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