If you want to start learning English , then listening to audiobooks is a great opportunity to raise your level of understanding of live speech. Unfortunately, it is not always possible to watch films in the original, because this requires a lot of free time, but you can almost always start an audiobook and listen to it, at least in the background, without being distracted from the main business. Let's go!
Audible
The Audible app is offered by Amazon, the world's largest online service for selling goods and services. More than 180 thousand literary works are collected here and the assortment is constantly replenished. It's no exaggeration to say that Audible is one of the best apps for listening to audiobooks in English..
You can download audiobooks for offline listening, share them for free, set timers to turn off playback at a specific time. Thanks to cloud sync, you can continue listening to your audiobook from where you left off last time on any device.
The service is free for the first 30 days of use, and at the end of the trial period, the user gets one free audiobook of his choice..
Audiobooks.com
Audiobooks.com is an application from the service of the same name, which has its own gorgeous collection, which contains over 100 thousand literary works. The beautiful interface of the application deserves special praise - it is very easy to find your favorite books.
Do you know what is best? If you downloaded a book, it will remain yours forever, even if the subscription ends. And that means a lot! The books are recorded in high quality in mp3 format. You can also download audiobooks from third-party sources. In addition to literary works, the service offers courses in foreign languages..
Overdrive
The OverDrive app allows you to rent a huge number of books from many online libraries around the world. Subsequently, you will not be asked for any money, since the audiobook will automatically be removed from your collection as soon as the subscription expires. Thanks to synchronization via cloud storage , you can continue listening to the book from where you left off last time on any device.
The operation of the application is a lot like a regular library, where you take a book, read it and turn it in. In OverDrive, you can rent not only audiobooks for listening, but also e-books for reading. Here you will not find adapted versions of the texts for beginners, but we can recommend starting listening with various fairy tales or simple works, for example, detective Sherlock Holmes. It is also possible to watch videos, for example, from a TED conference. To work with the application, you need to subscribe.
Listen Audiobook Player
The Listen Audiobook Player app does not have its own library, so you will have to download audiobooks to your phone or tablet from third-party sites. The developer recommends downloading DRM-free audiobooks to avoid copyright infringement. The app can play audiobooks in mp3, m4b, m4a, opus, ogg, aac, flac and many other formats.
The app also supports Android Auto, so you can easily sync it with your car to continue listening to your audiobook in your car from where you left off at home or in the office.
The application is updated frequently and new features appear from time to time, but most updates include only fixes for old "bugs". The application is not free, you have to pay 99 rubles for it. However, the developer guarantees a refund if within a week the user decides that Listen is not suitable for him.
Smart AudioBook Player
Another standard player with which you can listen to audiobooks already downloaded to your smartphone or tablet. This means that you have to build your own library yourself. While this is not a bad thing in itself, some people may not like the need to download the necessary books from time to time, instead of taking them from a ready-made library collection.
In the player's Smart AudioBook Player a decent user interface, everything is intuitive and does not cause additional complications. The application is free to download, but the free version is somewhat limited in functionality. You will have to pay for the fully functional version.