The existing Real English CD-ROMs contain 12 lessons, but digital video has already been completed for more than 30 lessons with 20 more soon to be made. All of the video is strictly organized by grammar structures and functions.
The video is a series of street interviews of people being completely spontaneous when answering our questions. We interviewed close to a thousand people, and given the huge choice we have in the editing room, we naturally choose people with that extra little something which makes Real English thoroughly entertaining, even for native speakers of English. Read the critical reviews on the many sites which have written objective articles, or better yet, download some of our video right from this site to see what the critics are so excited about. The videos that you can download here are absoultely representative of the entire library of digital Real English.
IMPORTANT: in order to see Real English video from this site, you must first download the basic Real Player version 8 (and only version 8). It is available for free at the bottom of the download area of www.real.com/
The short video you will see here was designed for 56 k modems and 256 k DSL and Cable connections. Technical quality is not compromised as is usually the case with internet video. The quality will never be as good as what one sees on our CD-ROMs, but we will not produce for the lowest common denominator.
The longer videos available here will require a good cable or dsl connection. Users with 56 k modems might get tired of waiting, and the result might be choppy. If the mouth movements you see do not match what you hear, then come back when you have internet access at higher speed. That is all that can be said at the present time!
The nationalities/accents of the people interviewed in Real English? 50% American and 50% the-rest-of-the-world (especially the British, Irish, Scots, with some Welsh, Australians, South Africans, and New Zealanders). The future Real English site could give this choice to the learner: To listen, watch, and learn with
a) nearly the whole English-speaking world of native speakers of English,
b) American only, or c) Non-Americans only.
Finally, the videos will of course be followed up with interactive exercises. The existing CD-ROMs contain many examples of possible activities, including those based on voice-recognition. Our future partners in this venture will certainly have some ideas in this realm as well as in many others.
2 - Click Here To Download Liz and Elaine (Scots - 20 seconds)
3 - Click Here To Download Kristin and André (Americans - 22 seconds)
4 - Click Here To Download Richard and Peter
1. Hold the cursor over the link for the video file that you want to save, and using the right mouse button, click on the link to the target file. A pull-down menu will appear.
2. From the pull-down menu, select the option for "Save Link As", the select the directory you would like to save the file to and click on "Save".
On a Macintosh: 1. Hold the cursor over the link for the file that you want to save and click and hold down the mouse button over the link to the target file. A pull-down menu will appear.
2. From the pull-down menu, select the option for "Save this link as" and then select the directory you would like to save the file to and click on "Save".
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In the USA: Ken Ryan j.ryan@realenglish.biz
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In Europe: Michael Marzio mike@realenglish.com
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