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English Practice

Date: Aug 16 2007

Topic: Listening

Author: tdmsilvino

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Hi everyone.
When we want to improve some of our skills we ought to work hard and do some practice everyday. But when it's regarding English, what to do? We know that we can read a lot of papers, web sites, magazines and it will just help us to improve our reading and increase our vocabulary, but surely it's not going to improve our listening nor speaking.
So I have sent this message with lots of links with great content to help us improve listening, reading, writing and speaking (to those who had taken heart).

Listening
voanews.com/specialenglish
This web site brings to you the news from USA and the reporters speak slowly. On the web site you have  either the audio (mp3 or real media) and the transcripts so you can read the text while they tell you the news. The announcers are from USA then it's a great way to get used with the American accent.

http://audiobooks.lapl.org/
Los Angeles Public Library. There's lots of audio books available for download. Head also to the links Music and Video. That's great stuff.

http://librivox.org/
LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Their goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books.

http://www.audiobooks.org/
Audio books for free. Pick up your book and download it.

http://www.kpbs.org/radio/a_way_with_words
Two announcers from San Diego/US whom interviews the listeners and give answers to their doubts about the use of some words. Remember... they speak fast.

http://www.cbc.ca/ottawa/esl/index.html
Ten lesson from the Canadian radio CBC. Each lesson has the sections introduction, before you listen, while you listen and after you listen.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/
BBC Learning English - various sections with help for English learners: news English, webcast, watch and listen, grammar and vocabulary. Everything with the audio and transcripts.

http://evaeaston.com/pr/home.html
American pronunciation lessons

Vocabulary
http://www.longman.com/ae/skills/americanroots/
Learn about the US cultural history, select the chapter in the combo box on the left and follow the links.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh0PRWfjDUQ
Vocabulary lessons on youtube.com

http://en.wikipedia.org
Wikipedia the free encyclopedia. You can search for topics in order to learn new words, for instance, if you search for the word clothing you'll be redirected to an article explaining about wearing apparel and articles of clothing, if you search for human anatomy it will be shown to you an article explaining everything about the human body.

Grammar
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/grammar/
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/index.htm

Dictionaries
http://tfd.com
The free dictionary. English to English dictionary with the pronunciation of the words and links to other sites as wikipedia.org, medical encyclopedia and on-line thesaurus.

http://m-w.com
Merriam-Webster English to English dictionary with the sound of the words

http://uol.com.br/babylon
Babylon on-line. English to Portuguese dictionary.

Communities
http://www.englishbaby.com/
Everyday one different lesson with audio and transcript, you can make your comments about the lesson and add people as friend. Use it to find a pen friend and have some chat on the web.

I would like to hear from you, how do you practice English? what web sites do you surf in order to improve your skills?
If you know any other link with good stuff let know.

See ya! (I hope LOL)

Thiago Diniz Macena Silvino
Google Talk: tdmsilvino@gmail.com / MSN: rhaige_diniz@hotmail.com / Yahoo: tdmsilvino@yahoo.com / Skype: tdmsilvino

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lana_gwll

Iraq

hii alll i wont leran englesh who can help me plz???Frown

08:58 PM Nov 13 2011 |

Lizzie233

Lizzie233

Moldova, Republic Of

Hi everybody ! I want to improve my english … Can you help me ?


 

04:56 PM Nov 13 2011 |

guigoBr

guigoBr

Brazil

Hi everyone! i also want to learn and improve my english skills. I´m beginner yet,(you see) but believe that on internet and skype we together we can learn step by step. My Id on skype is: tiagomcrz. Bye!

09:50 PM Nov 12 2011 |

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yjfnyygy

China

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01:37 AM Nov 11 2011 |

aak663

Pakistan

HI friends! My name is Ammad ,Iam looking for a partner to improve my english speaking can anyone else intersted to talk to me plz do send me an email on this id  

10:16 AM Oct 11 2011 |

gotravelenglish

United States

Lang-8 and Skype English are great sites to use to practice English.  There are so many website out there, it can be overwhelming.  I think the best way to find one that works for you is to use forums like this one.  Just keep getting other’s opinions and find one that works for you.  



Happy learning!

06:51 AM Jul 07 2011 |

Mima cute

Mima cute

Tunisia

thanks a lot


 

09:08 PM May 23 2011 |

mrnicechennai

India

Neutral accent is a way of speaking a language without regionalism. Speaking with an accent affects our communication and sometimes at its worst spoils our image in public. To make ourselves understand better we should speak in neutral accent. Let us learn about how to speak in neutral English.

By speaking in a neutral English, we can make people to understand us better. We can speak well in our Job interviews, public forum and work places. We can interact with the society smoothly. We can avoid frustration, inferiority complex and disappointments from people asking us to repeat what we’ve said.


www[dot]neutralaccent[dot]com

10:11 AM May 17 2011 |

vu_dak

Viet Nam

thanks a million

04:01 AM Oct 26 2009 |

huy1

huy1

Viet Nam

thank you very much, it's very helfull.

05:42 PM Aug 26 2009 |

ScottLm

United States

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02:26 AM Aug 22 2009 |

qurque

qurque

Myanmar

wonderful service.

May success ever n ever more.

04:31 AM Sep 22 2008 |

faizah

Malaysia

thank you very much.It will help me to improve my english language.

10:55 AM Apr 30 2008 |

puhu33

puhu33

Turkey

ohh thanks they are very nice

11:44 AM Apr 28 2008 |

realyfreeman

Jordan

thank you so much, could you please send to me a sit that can i check my english level

05:53 PM Jan 31 2008 |

faizah

Malaysia

Thank you very much. It is a great information from you.

05:29 PM Jan 31 2008 |

rmn7

Israel

You are the king man…I so grateful for you for the links you have given there…You can not to imagine how much ypur links are usefull for me…. I have a very importent listening  test as long as two months and I must to improve significantly my English listening level…so thank you…(and how I suppose to my self you have noticed that I love to use thee points…(...))

05:46 PM Nov 30 2007 |

ladoi

ladoi

Australia

thank u for help me.i am  the new in this web. this is the wonder index web .

12:38 PM Nov 30 2007 |

Lover for Ever

Saudi Arabia

lovely thank you so much

09:38 PM Nov 29 2007 |

yana011

yana011

Philippines

oh good links.. thanks so much! for the help!!!

11:17 AM Nov 19 2007 |

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