English Conversations offers unique recordings of real English conversations, dialogues, stories, and bilinguals with transcripts for language learners. It's also the home of Interactive Stories, a conversational teaching/learning technique created by Mark White.
Download audio file (swami6.mp3)
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(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 [...]
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.
I work for a telephone company.
I am part of the solution.
I am part of the solution.
I am not part of the problem.
Bilinguals, [...]
Download audio file (theholygrail.mp3)
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Axel: What kind of churches were they?
Isabel: There are churches now, but they were not obviously churches then, but they are temples in the shape of a cross…
Luis: You know this…?
Isabel: And they are all hewn out of rock from the top down.
Luis: They are like huge sculptures.
Isabel: Mm.
Luis: Yeah, Sculptures. [...]
Download audio file ThaiSo(Khmer)1.mp3)
Use this post to learn English and “So” at the same time.
I
(Thai)So(Khmer)
I speak English.
(Thai)So(Khmer)
Do you speak English?
(So)
No, I don’t.
I speak So.
(the sound of a motorcycle passing)
I speak So.
Do you speak So?
I speak a little.
I want to learn So.
Will you teach me?
Yes.
Thank you very much.
What do you want to learn?
I wan to learn [...]
Download audio file (drilling.mp3)
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The Canadian: It is a land-based rig.
The Aussie: Uh-huh.
The Canadian: And we are drilling mainly for gas.
The Aussie: M-hm.
The Canadian: Natural gas. The wells range between two thousand five hundred metres to three thousand five hundred metres in depth.
The Aussie:Wow!
The Canadian: Yeah. It is really interesting. My position is called [...]
Download audio file (cambodian3.mp3)
Use this post to learn English and Cambodian at the same time.
Hello.
How are you?
Good
What is your name?
My name is Mark.
My name is Pahl.
What is her name?
Her name is Ann.
What is his name?
His name is Steve.
Bilinguals, Cambodian, english
Download audio file (anlimc20.mp3)
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Mark: Ok. Well. Here I am. I am standing outside the Mosquito City Trade Towers and I have got an interview with Peter Bestluck, the richest man in Mosquito City, in about five minutes. I had better go in… Hello
Receptionist: Hello.
Mark: I am looking for Mr Bestluck’s Office.
Receptionist: Oh. Mr Bestluck?
Mark: [...]
Download audio file (immortality.mp3)
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Australian Man: Five thousand years ago?
Chinese Man: Maybe two thousand five hundred years ago.
Australian Man: Years ago.
Chinese Man: During the Qin Dynasty.
Australian Man: Uh-huh.
Chinese Man: When we had the first Emperor of China. We called him “Qin Shi Huang”. That means first Emperor of China.
Australian Man: Uh-huh. Qin Shi Huang?
Chinese Man: [...]
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 [...]
Download audio file (burke2.mp3)
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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?
Burke: Yeah they were both Canadians. They were simply … They were trained as teachers and so they joined the government program called CSIS.
Mark: How do you spell [...]