Listen to A-Books (audio books) and Learn a Language!
Listen to audio books while you drive, wait, relax. An audio book helps you to fill 'dead' time with meaningfull content. Learn on the road, start enjoying traffic jams! It's really easy to have great, talented narrators read to you from your favourite books. Romance, Thrillers, Historical Novels, you choose! - Or you can use the time to learn a foriegn language.
Reading a book means paying visual attention to the book. It's impossible to read a book whilst driving your car - even thouhg some people try it... - because you need your eyes to watch what's going on around you. Even if you're moving at a crawl because of the rush hour traffic jams, you need to be on the look out. Rear-ending a fellow commuter is not much fun.
If you listen to a audio book, you mostly use your ears and you leave your exes on the road! Imagine how much time you spend in your car every day: If you spend only 30 minutes on your commute, it's an hour a day, and if trafic back up it's quickly more. Let's assume that you spend on average 90 minutes per day - 5 days per week on the road. That's over 7 hours per week!
For simplicity let's assume you do this 50 weeks per year, that's 350 hours per year!
Dead time.......
Now add time you spend waiting in line in front of cashiers booth, at the bank, the post office and wherever else we are expected to wait our turn. If you spend just 1 hour per week waiting, and you cumulate this time it's again 50 hours per year!
Are your travelling by plane or train or an other means of transport and spend hours just sitting there? Some people like to read, and if you're not the driver this is OK. Some peole also simply like to relax, and then listening to book, espcially if on the plane during a night flight the lights went out.
Learning languages from books is tedious, listening to a new language on an audio book and learning it by repetition and through a well proven language learning system like i.e. Pimsleur can be truly fun. You will not believe how fast you pick it up and how easily you will start understanding and even speaken a new foreign language!
If we say that the average person has 400 to 500 hours every year to listen to audio books and spend these hours productively, we're most likely not far form the truth. The problem so far was, that in order to listen to a book you had to carry with you plenty of audio cassettes, or CD's and a relatively bulky player to have just one book with you. And thes devices gobbled up battery power faster than you could reload the batteries.... So not many people went through the bother of carrying audio books with them.
Today this has changed: An Apple iPod Nano is hardly larger than a box of matches, and will easily store a few books and some music, play for hours on end with just one small battery. You can literally carry more books in a nano that you would be able to physically carry, even if you made a hughe effort! So listening to an audio book and filling the 400 or 500 hours of time, that went to waste every year so far, makes a lot of sense!
Here are the major languages that can be learned through audio books:
We also offer language courses for other foreign languages:
Learning a foreign language with these audios was fun, much easier than I expected and I'm able to use the language on my trips abroad - ... and I manage to communicate with my hosts and business partners! - John Hucks, N.J.
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