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[hollysuel]

Hi All,

Can anyone suggest some good audio resources for phone calls and everyday conversations people make with the community (doctor, phone company, etc.) in American English? I also specifically want audio of people speaking in a very familiar conversational tone with common expressions. Any suggestions would be helpful. Most of what I find is quite scripted and not natural.

Thanks!

Holly

[scot47]

All the stuff I came across was scripted and sounded totally fake.

[fluffytwo]

Have you tried Googling for e.g. 'corpus spoken American English'? Here are two related hits from just the first page of results:
http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/research/santa-barbara-corpus
https://archive.org/details/santabarbara_201509

[papuadn]

Testing prompts tend to be more authentic than instructional exemplars, but far more brief.

[dragonpiwo]

There's an old book called 'Work Place.'

Buy it and your life will be easy.

It's for people who want to live in America. (immigrants)