Audiobooks narrated by Mary Shilston

From Standard To Stellar - Elevating Your English Vocabulary

Embark on a journey to elevate your language skills with this comprehensive audio-course for adult learners. This 5-session course is designed to enhance your vocabulary, providing you with new words and their meanings, such as desolate, kinetic, and ebullient. It's suitable for personal enrichment and professional success, and also serves as an advanced course for ESL learners. Each of the 5 20-30 minute lessons introduces a selection of words that add sophistication to communication. The course includes reviews, delving into synonyms, antonyms, and etymology, ensuring a thorough understanding of usage and context. The audio format benefits auditory learners and busy individuals, allowing learning while commuting or exercising. Delivered by skilled narrators, the course ensures that pronunciation, spelling, and meaning are clearly understood, covering 150 challenging words. Interactive elements are included to reinforce learning, encouraging listeners to answer questions and engage with the content. This course isn't just about memorizing words; it's about empowering effective communication, critical thinking, and deep understanding. It's ideal for all adults aiming to refine their English, from professionals to lifelong learners interested in the intricacies of language.

Sophia Mitchell (Author), Andrew Heisler, Mary Shilston (Narrator)

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Test-Ready Vocabulary

This audiobook serves as a powerful tool for individuals preparing for the standardized college exams, focusing on the mastery of vocabulary that is crucial for achieving high scores on standardized tests. With an emphasis on frequently-tested, challenging words, the content is structured to facilitate easy learning and retention, suitable for test-takers at the college application level. Listeners are guided through a curated selection of words, complete with definitions, synonyms, antonyms, and example sentences that illustrate proper usage in context. The audio format allows for an engaging and interactive learning experience. The five lessons of 30-40 minutes each are divided into manageable sections. This structure supports incremental learning, enabling listeners to build their vocabulary steadily and effectively. Additionally, the audiobook includes strategic tips based on word-stems and Greek and Latin roots to help decipher unfamiliar words during the test, enhancing critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Words are revisiting in different ways throughout the course to promote nuanced understanding of their meaning. Beyond mere memorization, this audiobook emphasizes understanding the nuances of the English language, helping listeners to develop an intuitive sense for word choice and usage. It is an invaluable resource for anyone aiming to elevate their verbal reasoning and writing abilities, ensuring they are well-prepared not just for test day, but for future academic and professional communication. With its neutral and informed approach, this audiobook is a versatile resource that can be revisited time and again for continued vocabulary enrichment. Whether on the go, during a workout, or in the comfort of your home, this audiobook is your companion in achieving a higher level of vocabulary proficiency for the GRE, SAT, and beyond.

Sophia Mitchell (Author), Andrew Heisler, Mary Shilston (Narrator)

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Word Athletes: Training For Linguistic Fitness and Agility, A 9th Grader's Vocabulary Builder

This 10-session course is tailored to enhance the vocabulary of 9th graders, focusing on their educational needs and developmental stage. It covers over 100 words, such as 'feign,' 'zoology,' 'stolid,' 'renegade,' 'rapport,' and 'insidious,' chosen for their relevance to both academic curricula and everyday language. Each 15-minute session is designed to fit into a busy academic schedule while being interactive and engaging, catering to various learning styles. The course employs a multi-faceted approach to vocabulary building. Words are introduced with definitions, used in sentences, and incorporated into short stories, helping students contextualize and understand them in narrative forms. Interactive elements like questions and discussions encourage active use of the words, aiding in memorization and understanding of their nuances. The course also introduces synonyms, expanding vocabulary and highlighting subtle differences in meaning and usage, essential for effective communication and language skills. The structure of the course allows revisiting vocabulary in different sessions, each time with a new approach. This repetitive, varied method solidifies understanding, enabling students to confidently use these words in academic and everyday contexts.

Sophia Mitchell (Author), Andrew Heisler, Mary Shilston (Narrator)

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Elevate Your English

A resource for learners of the English language to expand their vocabulary through 5 20-minute sessions of increasingly complex by commonly used English words. To help learning and retention of words are approached in multiple ways using definitions, sentence usage, questions, stories, opposites, similar words and other techniques. Session 1 starts with more basic words such as opponent, cable, additional, triumph and rare. Session 2 covers words like gingerly, upset, globe, shabby and actual. Session 3 includes words like reassure, hearty, condone, deprive and faulty. Session 4 includes words such as superior, ordinary, particular, diverge and invert. Session 5 includes collide, vow, mimic, monotonous, variable and adhere as well as quiz content on words covered previously. Through each content segment is relatively short and the words and learning approach change frequently within each session to keep the content fresh and interesting. If you are an intermediate to advanced English-speaker then this is an ideal way to round out your vocabulary and deepen your understanding of other words you are starting to become familiar with.

Sophia Mitchell (Author), Andrew Heisler, Mary Shilston (Narrator)

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Vocabulary Advancement

This five session guide builds your vocabulary for college by presenting challenging words in multiple settings. Learning new vocabulary is a multi-stage process involving multiple interactions with new words in context. This course achieves this by explaining words through their definitions as you would expect, but then presenting them in stories, with their opposites, explaining relevant Greek and Latin word stems, semantic scales and using other proven techniques to rapidly expand your vocabulary via challenging, but commonly used words. This can be helpful for college readiness or test prep. Words include acrimonious, maudlin, nefarious, quixotic and pernicious. The audiobook includes over 100 grade-appropriate words. Each session is around 15 minutes long, making this a quick and easy way to grow your vocabulary and come back for a refresher as often as you need.

Sophia Mitchell (Author), Andrew Heisler, Mary Shilston (Narrator)

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Adult Vocabulary Boost

A guide for adults to expand their vocabulary through a range of activities and and exercises to increase familiarity with more challenging but useful words. Examples of the level of words included are laconic, elated, divulge, bellicose, despondent, jeopardize and opulent. This audio course will broaden your vocabulary by over a hundred words and deepen your understanding of words that you already know. Vocabulary is approached in multiple ways to build a firm understanding, this includes: stories, definitions, synonyms, word stems, word origins, sentence usage, quiz questions and other methods to build out your vocabulary. The sessions vary in length from 20-40 minutes, the later sessions are longer as review of prior content is included to help aid retention and committing words to long-term memory. This is an ideal way to strengthen your command of the English language.

Sophia Mitchell (Author), Andrew Heisler, Mary Shilston (Narrator)

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Vocabulary Voyage: Expanding Word Usage For 10th Graders

This audiobook is intended to develop understanding and comprehension of more advanced vocabulary for a 10th grader looking to broaden their exposure to the English language. The sort of words that are included in this title, for example, are pragmatic, meticulous and harbinger. One must be exposed to a word multiple times in different context to start to understand it and use it correctly. That's why this 10-session audiobook uses a number of different techniques to describe words from their definitions to using them in context in stories and sentences, providing synonyms as well as antonyms and many other methods. This repeated interaction with the words in the course, means that you approach vocabulary from different angles making it easier to retain the words that are learned and promoting a broader understanding of meaning in context. This course will expand the listeners' vocabulary by over 100 age-appropriate and challenging words. This content may also be useful in preparation for parts of certain standardized testing where vocabulary is tested, as well as advanced learners of English as a Second Language (ESL). This proven course is an ideal, effective and age-targeted way to broaden vocabulary.

Sophia Mitchell (Author), Andrew Heisler, Mary Shilston (Narrator)

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Word Explorers: Mapping The Language Landscape, A Vocabulary Expander for 8th Graders

This ten-session course broadens vocabulary for 8th graders in multiple ways including definitions of words, usage in context, stories, quiz questions and pairing of words with similar ones. This is an ideal way to foster vocabulary development. Vocabulary included in this 8th grade course includes terms such as juxtapose, velocity, technical, surmise, validate, abhor and many others. 8th grade is a target level for this course, but depending on a child's vocabulary development it may be useful for other or younger children. This course is part of a progressive series that enables progressive vocabulary learning from course to course. Sessions start by introducing new vocabulary and later in the course words are examined in different ways and understanding of the vocabulary is tested.

Sophia Mitchell (Author), Andrew Heisler, Mary Shilston (Narrator)

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An Introduction To Scottish Gaelic Language Fundamentals

This is a basic introductory course in the Scottish Gaelic language covering introductory vocabulary and key elements of Scottish Gaelic language and culture. The course starts with the basics of greetings, numbers and colors. The course then progresses to simple sentence structures and common phrases. Throughout, words and phrases are repeated in different ways to help the learning and language retention process. The course consists of five progressive learning sessions, with a final session that reviews all the vocabulary in the course end-to-end. The Scottish Gaelic language holds a profound significance to Scottish culture, serving as a vibrant thread that weaves together the country's rich heritage. As an integral part of Scotland's linguistic tapestry, Gaelic connects modern-day Scots to their ancestors, fostering a deep sense of identity and belonging. The language embodies centuries of history, literature, music, and folklore, allowing the preservation and celebration of a unique cultural legacy that continues to inspire and shape Scotland's diverse traditions. Promoting and revitalizing Scottish Gaelic not only honors the past but also ensures a vibrant and dynamic future for Scottish culture. This introductory course is an ideal way to get started learning the key elements of the Scottish Gaelic language.

Alice Scott (Author), Fine Mayer, Mary Shilston (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Mary Shilston