Podcasts
ESL Podcasts
Podcasts are a great way for English language learners to improve listening comprehension. Voice of America provide 'special English' audio broadcasts for ESL students and teachers. BBC English also has a comprehensive selection of graded listening materials.
Podcasts are a great way for English language learners to improve listening comprehension. Voice of America provide 'special English' audio broadcasts for ESL students and teachers. BBC English also has a comprehensive selection of graded listening materials.
Fiction
New Yorker Fiction Podcasts
For unsimplified and free podcasts of some of the best modern short stories in English try The New Yorker Fiction Podcast. Here well known writers give their favourite stories published in The New Yorker Magazine.
Each story is proceeded by a short introduction and ends with a discussion. Here are some suggestions:
For unsimplified and free podcasts of some of the best modern short stories in English try The New Yorker Fiction Podcast. Here well known writers give their favourite stories published in The New Yorker Magazine.
Each story is proceeded by a short introduction and ends with a discussion. Here are some suggestions:
- Paul Theroux reads Jorge Luis Borges’s short story “The Gospel According to Mark.”
- Richard Ford reads John Cheever’s short story “Reunion.”
- T. Coraghessan Boyle reads Tobias Wolff’s short story “Bullet in the Brain.”
- Jonathan Lethem reads James Thurber’s short story “The Wood Duck.”
