When you practice listening comprehension on our site, we want you to listen to the English you would hear in America or England. How We Make Our Recordings We make our recordings by talking to ordinary people. We go to people's homes, or somewhere else, we sit down with them and we ask them to talk about their lives, and what interests them. After a while, speakers become relaxed, and start talking in a natural manner. In this way, we get very realistic language.
Most places are a little noisy.
That's why professional recordings are made in quiet studios. We do not use a studio, we talk to people in natural situations. We try very hard to keep background noise as low as possible. But it is there. If you listen carefully you will hear some background noise on some recordings.