http://englishconversations.org Practical Conversations for Language Learners Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:14:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [audio:anlimc28trafalgar.mp3] Download audio file (anlimc28trafalgar.mp3) at Professor Bop Journalist: Hello everybody. Here I am at Mosquito City University and Hydrogen Engine Facility and I am just going in to talk to Doctor Nelson Trafalgar, the resident hydrogen expert... Hello there Doctor Trafalgar. Professor: Hello. Pop on in. Journalist: Sorry. Professor: Pop in. Come in. Journalist: Thank you. ... http://englishconversations.org/2010/03/14/a-new-life-in-mosquito-city-part-28-mosquito-city-university/ [audio:anlimc27hef.mp3] 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 story about the hydrogen engine. I was wondering if there was somebody there who I ... http://englishconversations.org/2010/02/28/a-new-life-in-mosquito-city-part-27-calling-the-university/ [audio:heliboat.mp3] 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 you hear the boat? Daughter: Yes. (hesitantly) Father: I can hear the boat too. Daughter: It is like an aeroplane. Father: Yes. It sounds like an aeroplane. It is an engine. It sounds ... http://englishconversations.org/2010/02/13/a-helicopter-a-boat-or-an-aeroplane/ [audio:malay1.mp3] 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. http://englishconversations.org/2010/02/13/bilingual-english-and-malay-1/ [audio:banjo poem.mp3] Download audio file (banjo poem.mp3) at freeparking The Ballad of Hapgood J Thoroughgood and Wendell P Boyd. a poor young African American woman of unfortunate circumstances died in childbirth but her identical twin sons survived although they were both born completely perfectly beautifully blue. the two blue boys were adopted out and one of them was raised by a rich ... http://englishconversations.org/2010/02/13/the-ballad-of-the-banjo-players-brother-a-poem/ [audio:An English Accent.mp3] Download audio file (An English Accent.mp3) at Etrusia UK Londoner: The words they use might change. Certainly. Vocab would definitely change. Australian: Yeah. Yeah. That's interesting. because I have a friend from London and I can't understand half of what he says. Just the words... the slang. It's so... Londoner: You ... http://englishconversations.org/2010/01/15/an-english-accent/ [audio:portuguese2.mp3] Download audio file (portuguese2.mp3) My name is Mark. What is your name? My name is Ricardo. What is his name? His name is Maxim. What is her name? Her name is Winnie. Where is she from? She is from Taiwan. Where are you from? I am from from Australia? Where are you from? I am from Brazil. Where in Brazil? I come from Curiciba. Thank you ... http://englishconversations.org/2010/01/12/bilingual-english-and-portuguese-2/ [audio:furniture.mp3] 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 the stairs with her yellow laptop and she sat on her daddy's lap and she put ... http://englishconversations.org/2010/01/11/furniture/ [audio:arabic2.mp3] 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 from? He is from Saudi Arabia. We don't say Saudi Arabia. We say "Saudi" Hello. Do you speak Arabic? I ... http://englishconversations.org/2010/01/10/bilingual-english-and-arabic-2-2/ [audio:romantic1.mp3] Download audio file (romantic1.mp3) You are a man on a train on a journey from Hell to Heaven but nowhere around you can you see the tracks, the carriage, the other passengers or the window, let alone the view from the window. There is no awareness in you of the linear progression ... http://englishconversations.org/2010/01/07/do-you-read-novels/