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
