Listening
practice and understand
Do you want to understand and interact with people doing everyday tasks? Then get familiar with spoken English phrases!
Here you can find the best free online English listening activities to improve
Here you can find the best free online English listening activities to improve
your feel for spoken English.
- Stay up to date and improve your language skills at the same time with English news programs!
- Jump right into a number of exciting English reports!
- Develop your ear for the spoken language with English dialogues!
A few tips from us:
- Don't get discouraged if you don't understand everything right away!
- Try to understand the important points the speaker makes - you don't need to understand every word!
- Listen to the audio more than once: repetition works wonders!
Audio Lingua - Audio from Native Speakers
This site hosts a variety of different audio recordings made by English native speakers. There are many topics covered by different speakers. The high-quality audio is easy to understand, and you can choose between language level, speaker and recording length on the right side of the page.United Nations - Audiovisual Library
Here you can find news articles from all over the world, published by the United Nations.Deutsche Welle in English - News with Videos
These high-quality news reports will help you improve your listening skills. These reports are best suited for advanced English learners, as the reports are read quickly and without an accompanying transcript.Light Up Your Brain - Stories for Kids
On this site you can find audio recordings of stories to practise listening to spoken English. The audio is simple, which is good for beginners or children. All stories include a transcript and some include illustrations.Living on Earth - Challenging Articles
These advanced reports are best suited for advanced English learners. Topics include science, current events and politics. There is a huge archive to search through that includes many interesting audio reports with an accompanying transcript for reading along.Voice of America - Audio for Different Levels
This site made especially for English learners offers audio reports about all sorts of current news. You can listen to the audio and read along with the transcript. Articles are divided into three levels of difficulty. All audio reports can also be downloaded.BBC Learning English - Diverse Audio Reports
This multimedia learning portal has many different videos and audio recordings about current events and English culture. Choose from a number of different categories, topics and articles. The audio and text transcripts of reports can be downloaded.- This site has long audio reports made for beginners. Topics range from entertainment to relationships and healthy living. Each audio report can be downloaded, and an accompanying text is available to read along with.
- This online collection of multimedia listening content spans from history to current events to poetry.
