Audio Recordings
Audio Recordings of old and modern English Language
Below you will find a collection of audio recordings, along with transcriptions, of examples of old english language.
- Example of the American Dialect
- Babu English: an ornate English used in Indian legal circles
- Beginning of the General Prologue to Chaucers Canterbury Tales
- Beginning of the Prologue of Beowulf
- Beginning of the ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’
- Birhtwold’s Speech from ‘The Battle of Maldon’
- Some confusing words in the American dialect
- Dialect of Tidewater Community of Tangier Island, Virginia
- Excerpt from the Gospel According to St Matthew
- Excerpt from ‘Le Chanson de Roland’ in Norman French
- Great Vowel Shift Pronunciation Changes
- Gullah: an English-African Patois Dating Back to the Days of Slavery
- James Joyce reads an excerpt from ‘Finnegan’s Wake’ (Book I Ch. 8)
- The Lord’s Prayer in Old English
- Nigerian Pidgin English
- Passage from the ‘Ormulum’
- Prologue from ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by William Shakespeare
- Short Poem & Numbers in Modern Frisian
- ‘Sumer is icumen in’
- Thomas Edison Talking About Electricity in 1908
- Winston Churchill’s 1941 War Speech
Written by Richard Barker
Richard is an English teacher with over 25 years of experience. He has dedicated his life and career to his passion for English, literature, and pedagogy, guiding multiple generations of students on their journey to discovery.