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Learning English Stories

Classic stories retold for learners. Listen to Learning English Stories online with a synced transcript. Replay sentence by sentence, check translations, get AI explanations, and shadow each line in GoodScriber.

What's inside

24 audio lessons, 2 h 44 min in total. Levels: Beginner.

Lessons

#TitleLengthLevel
1Classic Stories: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn5:26Beginner
2Classic Stories: Cinderella7:29Beginner
3Classic Stories: The Snow Queen6:22Beginner
4Classic Stories: Robin Hood6:14Beginner
5Classic Stories: Pride and Prejudice6:06Beginner
6Classic Stories: Pygmalion5:25Beginner
7Classic Stories: Orpheus and Eurydice7:08Beginner
8Classic Stories: The Murders in the Rue Morgue6:41Beginner
9Classic Stories: Far From the Madding Crowd5:47Beginner
10Classic Stories: Frankenstein6:41Beginner
11Classic Stories: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde5:56Beginner
12Classic Stories: David Copperfield7:15Beginner
13Classic Stories: Oliver Twist6:14Beginner
14Classic Stories: The Red Shoes7:31Beginner
15Classic Stories: Romeo and Juliet7:11Beginner
16Classic Stories: The Phantom of the Opera7:37Beginner
17Classic Stories: A Tale of Two Cities7:34Beginner
18Classic Stories: The War of the Worlds7:25Beginner
19Classic Stories: The 39 Steps7:35Beginner
20Classic Stories: A Midsummer Night's Dream7:40Beginner
21Classic Stories: Animal Farm6:56Beginner
22Classic Stories: Little Women7:47Beginner
23Classic Stories: The Tempest7:11Beginner
24Classic Stories: 19847:05Beginner

How to practice

  1. Open a material to play it with synced, sentence-by-sentence subtitles.
  2. Replay any line, show a translation, look up words, and ask for an AI sentence explanation.
  3. Shadow or repeat after each sentence, record your voice, and save useful words and sentences to your notebooks.

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