Language audiobooks

Easy Japanese Course for Beginners

By: Collins Dictionaries

Narrated by: Fumitsugu Enokida & Junko Ogawa

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The perfect Japanese course for travel in Japan. It is designed to help you ask for the things you’re most likely to need when visiting Japan 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

Quickstart Japanese

By: Select Publishing Group

Narrated by: Select Publishing Group

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Learning Is Fast, Fun & Friendly with Quickstart Japanese!

For Beginners, Travelers & Advanced Speakers! What is most difficult about learning another language? Getting started! Quickstart Japanese is designed for you to start quickly, and maximizes the full potential of the widely accepted method of learning a language--the "Immersion"... Read more

Quickstart Korean

By: Select Publishing Group

Narrated by: Select Publishing Group

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Learning Is Fast, Fun & Friendly with Quickstart Korean!

For Beginners, Travelers & Advanced Speakers! What is most difficult about learning another language? Getting started! Quickstart Korean is designed for you to start quickly, and maximizes the full potential of the widely accepted method of learning a language--the "Immersion"... Read more

Behind the Wheel - French 2

By: Behind the Wheel

Narrated by: Mark Frobose

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Vivez bien, aimez beaucoup, riez souvent. (Live well, love much, laugh often.) As a French language learner, you know that there is something magical about being able to express yourself in this beautiful language. Now Behind the Wheel French 2 invites you to practice your foundational French with lessons and stories based around real life... Read more

Behind the Wheel - German 1

By: Behind the Wheel

Narrated by: Mark Frobose

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Behind the Wheel German Level 1 covers beginning to intermediate level German, providing a strong, yet flexible foundation for speaking, understanding, and creatively expressing yourself in standard German. The program features an English speaking instructor to guide you through the lessons and a native German speaker to aid with your... Read more

How Fiction Works

By: James Wood

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

What makes a story a story? What is style? What's the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions James Wood answers in How Fiction Works, the first book-length essay by the preeminent critic of his generation.Raging widely from Homer to David Foster Wallace, from What Maisie Knew to Make Way for Ducklings, Woods... Read more

Transformational Speaking

By: Gail Larsen

Narrated by: Gail Larsen

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Today's challenging times call for passionate visionaries who are authentic and articulate communicators. Speaking coach and consultant Gail Larsen presents a proven program that liberates the "speaker within" and transforms even the reluctant orator into an agent of change.While most programs on public speaking focus on a polished presentation... Read more

Behind the Wheel - Portuguese 1

By: Behind the Wheel

Narrated by: Mark Frobose

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Behind the Wheel Portuguese 1 covers beginning to intermediate level standard Portuguese, with an emphasis on Brazilian Portuguese. The course provides a flexible, solid and universal foundation in speaking, understanding, and creatively expressing yourself in Brazilian Portuguese and features an English speaking instructor to guide you through... Read more

Behind the Wheel - Arabic 1

By: Behind the Wheel

Narrated by: Mark Frobose

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Behind the Wheel Arabic Level 1 covers beginning to intermediate level Arabic, providing a flexible, solid and universal foundation in speaking, understanding, and creatively expressing yourself in Arabic. The program features an English speaking instructor to guide you through the lessons and a native speaker to aid with your pronunciation. Read more

Little Lord Fauntleroy

By: Frances Hodgson Burnett & Jennifer Bassett

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Cedric Errol is seven years old. He lives with his mother in a little house in New York. They don't have much money, but mother and son are good friends. Cedric is a kind, friendly little boy, and everybody likes him. His father was English, but he is now dead, and Cedric and his mother are alone in the world. But one day a lawyer arrives from... Read more

A Way With Words IV

By: Michael Drout

Narrated by: Michael Drout

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In A Way with Words I, II, and III, Professor Michael D.C. Drout increased listeners' understanding of the way literature works, of the rhetoric that in many ways defines people's lives, and of the intricacies of grammar, all while maintaining a lively tone that conveys the professor's infectious enthusiasm for the subject. In part IV of this... Read more

Behind the Wheel - Spanish 3

By: Behind the Wheel

Narrated by: Mark Frobose

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Behind the Wheel Spanish 3 incorporates vocabulary, grammar, and sentence building from earlier levels as it refines and perfects your understanding of the Spanish language, focusing on listening comprehension and conversational interaction to take you to the next level of fluency.

This program includes a companion book to reinforce and enhance... Read more

Upsize Your Word Power

By: Peter Funk

Narrated by: Peter Funk

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Now from Peter Funk, the Reader's Digest word columnist and the bestselling author of Word Power, comesUpsize Your Word Power, teaching you the fastest and easiest way to expand your vocabulary: the use of synonyms.

Synonyms are a sound and often overlooked way to build vocabulary.  With synonyms, you can express almost any shade of feeling or... Read more

Word Power - Abridged

By: Peter Funk

Narrated by: Peter Funk

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Word Power is an easy-to-follow series of vocabulary lessons from master linguist Peter Funk. His proven techniques will dramatically help you to improve your vocabulary and express yourself more clearly and forcefully. You will also gain the confidence that comes from having exactly the right word for every situation.

Word Power offers simple... Read more

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 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

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

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