Learn English by Listening to Audio Books

A great way to learn English is from listening to audio books in English. It’s also a great way to relax, if you are learning a language, or if you simply want to relax. It help you to feel calm after a long day and books can take you away to another place and time.

In this post there are loads of great audio books that are free to listen to, I’ve arranged them into genres so that you might find something that you are interested in and that you feel like listening to.

This post is constantly growing, so please keep checking back to discover more free audio books.

Fables

Fables are stories that contain animals, plants, inanimate objects, forces of nature, legendary creatures that are anthropomorphized. The stories are short and they contain a moral guidance in them without being pushy. Aesop’s fables can be traced back to even before Ancient Greece, through Egypt and Sumer. Aesop didn’t write anything down, and so these stories were passed on through oral tradition for thousands of years. Eventually they were written down, these ancient stories with their timeless wisdom have spread out across the whole world, people of all ages can enjoy Aesop’s fables. Some of these stories you may already be aware of, such as, The Tortoise and The Hair, and The Fox and the Grapes, but there are many more stories, about 750 of them, such as the Lion and the Mouse.

The Lion and the Mouse – Aesop’s fables

A LION was awakened from sleep by a Mouse running over his face. Rising up angrily, he caught him and was about to kill him, when the Mouse piteously entreated, saying: “If you would only spare my life, I would be sure to repay your kindness.” The Lion laughed and let him go. It happened shortly after this that the Lion was caught by some hunters, who bound him by strong ropes to the ground. The Mouse, recognizing his roar, came and gnawed the rope with his teeth, and set him free, exclaiming:

“You ridiculed the idea of my ever being able to help you, not expecting to receive from me any repayment of your favor; now you know that it is possible for even a Mouse to confer benefits on a Lion.”

This story appears in the public domain version of Aesop’s fables on project Gutenberg.

There are many of Aesop’s fables to listen to here that are available for free. Happy Listening

Aesop’s fables, Aesop. https://archive.org/details/aesop_fables_volume_one_librivox

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aesops-fables-podcast/id255293600