Articles tagged “Books”
- English audiobooks: how to listen and read at the same timeWhy listening alone teaches little, and how one page and three passes turn an English audiobook into practice. The voice is synthetic; the text stays on screen.
- English books and audiobooks for B1 learnersWhat to read and listen to in English at B1, free: whole classic novels in versions that follow the original, how to pick your first one and finish it.
- English books and audiobooks for B2 learnersWhat to read and listen to in English at B2, free: Dracula, Jane Eyre, Sherlock Holmes in editions that follow the original. How to choose, and when to try originals.
- English books and audiobooks for C1 learnersWhat to read and listen to in English at C1, free: classic novels in the original and editions close to it. How to handle nineteenth-century English.
- English books for beginners: where to startThere are no A1 or A2 books on the shelf, so here is a path: learner stories first, then a two-minute page test and five easy B1 editions to start with.
- How to Read a Book in English and Actually Reach the Last PageA plan for reading your first English book to the end: a three-page test, a 14-day start, and what to do when you want to quit.
- How we measure reading levelsWhat a label like B2.1 means, how a program measures it from the text itself, and how we check the scale against exams, teachers and graded readers.