The article "MP3 Files Will Revolutionize Your Language Learning" by Reid Wilson, which first appeared in Language Learning #22, gives a broad overview of the great potential of creating, using, and sharing MP3 files in language learning. 

Once you've read it, the following articles will add some details and answer some questions:

• "Making MP3 Files with Cool Edit 2000" by Reid Wilson
• "A Language Learning Tool for the Gadgetophile" by Eric N.
• "From First Recording to Comprehensible Corpus" by Reid Wilson
• "So How Do I Go about Organizing My Language Learning Tapes?" by Dawson Tennant

As we find and are sent MP3 files in different languages we'll include them here. Currently we have MP3 files available in Jordanian colloquial Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic and plan to include many more of these in the future. We also have sample MP3s from Italian, Spanish, English, and Lebanese Colloquial Arabic. Send us ones you make an we'll include those too.

Note: All of our MP3 files are saved at 32 Kbps, 16,000 Hz, 16-bit, stereo using Cool Edit 2000's high quality setting. Click here to read about how we name our MP3 files.

Click here to go to our page of Jordanian Colloquial Arabic MP3 files.

Click here to go to our page of Modern  Standard Arabic MP3 files.

Click here for a sample MP3 files:

• Italian sample 1    (299 KB)
• Italian sample 2    (410 KB)
• Spanish sample 1 (274 KB)
• English sample 1  (180 KB)
• Lebanese Colloquial Arabic sample 1 (367 KB)
• Lebanese Colloquial Arabic sample 2 (312 KB)
• Lebanese Colloquial Arabic sample 3 (181 KB)
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We are on the hunt for such sites! If you know of any, please e-mail us and tell us about them.

• http://www.audioscriptures.org has free downloadable MP3 files in 85 different languages. Many if not all of the languages have two separate MP3 files that can be downloaded, the first one containing about 75 minutes of text from the Bible. One nice thing about these files is that you can download the same thing in two different languages, your mother tongue (e.g., English) and the one you are learning (e.g., Portuguese). This way you can listen to your best language first which should help you understand the second language better when you listen to it. In addition, the site has the entire Albanian New Testament available as downloadable MP3 files.
  
• eViews at http://www.eviews.net/  is for teachers and students of English looking for advanced level comprehension and listening exercises with lesson plans. Easy access to different English accents in the Library. In MP3 and Real Audio formats.