(American English natives only please)
Hi, I am Chang, and I teach English to Koreans. I wanted to make an Anki deck of the first 625 English words (highest frequency) for my students. Although I speak fluent English with almost no accent, I wanted a native speaker to do the recording for this one.
Here are some guidelines for recording:
- You can just read through the words with about one second pause in between words and make it a single mp3 file (I can do the editing).
- If it's easier for you, you can even do this in one take regardless of the mistakes you might make. If you decide to do one take, please clap 3 times after you make a mistake and before you re-do the word, to make the editing easier for me.
- You don't need to read what's in between parentheses.
- If there are two words in one line, separated by '/', please treat those as separate words, meaning you include 1sec pause in between.
Thank you very much!
actor
adjective
adult
afternoon
air
airport
alive
animal
apartment
apple
April
arm
army
art
artist
attack (noun)
August
author (noun)
baby
back (body)
back (direction)
bad
bag (noun)
ball
banana
band (music)
bank
bar (location)
bathroom
beach
beard
beat (verb)
beautiful
bed
bedroom
beef
beer
bend (verb)
beverage
bicycle
big/large
bill (noun)
billion
bird
black
blind (adjective)
blood
blue
boat
body
bone
book
bottle
bottom
box (noun)
boy
brain
bread
break (verb)
breakfast
bridge (noun)
brother
brown
build (verb)
building
burn (verb)
bus
buy (verb)
cake
call (verb)
camera
camp (noun)
car
card
carry (verb)
cat
catch (verb)
ceiling
cell phone
centimeter
chair (noun)
cheap
cheese
chicken
child
church
circle (noun)
city
clay
clean (adjective)
clean (verb)
clock
close (verb)
clothing
club (the location)
coat (noun)
coffee
cold
color (noun)
computer
consonant
contract (noun)
cook (verb)
cool (adjective)
copper
corn
corner (noun)
count (verb)
country (USA, Spain)
court
cow
crowd (noun)
cry (verb)
cup
curved
cut (verb)
dance (verb)
dark
date (May 7)
daughter
day
dead
deaf
death
December
deep
diamond
die (verb)
dig (verb)
dinner
direction
dirty
disease
doctor
dog
dollar
door
dot
down
draw (verb)
dream (noun)
dress (noun)
drink (verb)
drive (verb)
drug (noun)
dry
dust (noun)
ear
Earth
east
eat (verb)
edge
egg
eight
eighteen
eighty
election
electronics
eleven
energy
engine
evening
exercise (noun)
expensive
explode (verb)
eye (noun)
face (noun)
fall (season)
fall (verb)
family
famous
fan (electric)
fan (sport)
farm (noun)
fast
father
February
feed (verb)
female
fifteen
fifth (5th)
fifty
fight (verb)
find (verb)
finger
fire (noun)
first (1st)
fish (noun)
five
flat (adjective)
floor
flower
fly (verb)
follow (verb)
food
foot (body part)
foot (measurement)
forest
fork
forty
four
fourteen
fourth (4th)
Friday
friend
front
game
garden
gasoline
gift
girl
glass
go (verb)
God
gold
good
grandfather
grandmother
grass
gray
green
ground
grow (verb)
gun
hair
half
hand
hang (verb)
happy
hard
hat
he
head
healthy
hear (a sound)
heart
heat (noun)
heaven
heavy
hell
high
hill
hole
horse
hospital
hot
hotel
hour
house
human
hundred
husband
I
ice
image
inch
injury
inside
instrument (musical)
island
it
January
job
juice
July
jump (verb)
June
key
kill (verb)
kilogram
king
kiss (verb)
kitchen
knee
knife
lake
lamp
laptop
laugh (verb)
lawyer
leaf
learn (verb)
left (direction)
leg
lemon
letter
library
lie down (verb)
lift (verb)
light (/dark)
light (/heavy)
light (noun)
lip
listen (music) (verb)
location
lock (noun)
long
loose
lose (verb)
loud
love (verb)
low
lunch
magazine
male
man
manager
map
March
market
marriage
marry (verb)
material
May
mean (/nice)
medicine
melt (verb)
metal
meter
milk
million
minute
mix/stir (verb)
Monday
money
month
moon
morning
mother
mountain
mouse
mouth
movie
murder (noun)
music
narrow
nature
neck
needle
neighbor
network
new
newspaper
nice
night
nine
nineteen
ninety
no
north
nose
note (on paper)
November
nuclear
number
ocean
October
office
oil
old (/new)
old (/young)
one
open (verb)
orange (color)
orange (food)
outside
page
pain
paint
pants
paper
parent
park (location)
pass (verb)
patient (noun)
pattern
pay (verb)
peace
pen
pencil
person
photograph
piece
pig
pink
plane
plant (noun)
plastic
plate
play (verb)
player
pocket
poison (noun)
police
pool
poor
pork
pound (weight)
pray (verb)
president
price
priest
prison
program (computer)
pull (verb)
push (verb)
queen
quiet
race (ethnicity)
race (sport)
radio
rain (noun)
red
religion
reporter
restaurant
rice
rich
right (direction)
ring
river
roof
room (in a house)
root
run (verb)
sad
salt
sand
Saturday
school
science
screen
sea
season
second (2nd)
second (time)
secretary
see (a bird)
seed
sell (verb)
September
seven
seventeen
seventy
sex (gender)
sex (the act)
shake (verb)
shallow
she
ship
shirt
shoes
shoot (a gun)
short (long)
short (vs. tall)
shoulder
sick
side
sign (noun)
sign (verb)
silver
sing (verb)
sister
sit (verb)
six
sixteen
sixty
skin
skirt
sky
sleep (verb)
slow
small/little
smell (verb)
smile (verb)
snow (noun)
soap
soft
soil/earth
soldier
son
song
sound
soup
south
space (outer space)
speak/say (verb)
spoon
sport
spring (season)
square
stain
stand (verb)
star
stone
stop (verb)
store/shop
straight
street/road
strong
student
sugar
suit (noun)
summer
sun
Sunday
sweat (noun)
swim (verb)
T-shirt
table
tall
taste (verb)
tea
teach (verb)
teacher
team
tear (drop)
technology
telephone
television
temperature
ten
theater
they
thick
thin
think (verb)
third (3rd)
thirteen
thirty
thousand
three
throw (verb)
Thursday
ticket (train)
tight
time (noun)
tire (of a car)
toe
tongue
tool
tooth
top
touch (verb)
town
train (noun)
train station
transportation
tree
truck
Tuesday
turn (verb)
twelve
twenty
twenty – one (etc.)
two
ugly
university
up
valley
verb
victim
voice (noun)
vowel
waiter
wake up (verb)
walk (verb)
wall
war
warm (adjective)
wash (verb)
watch (TV) (verb)
water (noun)
wave (ocean)
we
weak
wear (verb)
wedding
Wednesday
week
weight
west
wet (adj.)
white
wide
wife
win (verb)
wind (noun)
window
wine
wing
winter
woman
wood
work (verb)
world
write (verb)
yard
year
yellow
yes
you (singular/plural)
young
zero
I messed up and read 'sigh' once instead of 'sign'. please ignore it.