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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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ranbaxy

India

thanks for giving this information
a great effort thsnkssssssssssssssssssssssss
( my one best teacher )

01:00 PM Oct 16 2007 |

ank302

India

hello

10:44 AM Oct 11 2007 |

Jessica0742

China

Very helpful!!!

Thank you so much~~Laughing

10:38 AM Oct 11 2007 |

usman1480

India

thanks

i have never seen these awesome sites  

04:05 AM Oct 09 2007 |

Massa

Senegal

Thiago Diniz Macena Silvino

It's real very kind of you to help us with this useful links

 

03:50 PM Oct 04 2007 |

Ocean-SA

Ocean-SA

Saudi Arabia

Well done!

03:36 AM Sep 24 2007 |

Ghadood

Egypt

Thank you so much
waiting for more

11:26 AM Sep 17 2007 |

rhodes

Nepal

ya i have great understanding in english but can't speak fluently thats a problem. i hope ur link will probably help me to enhance my skill.

05:04 AM Sep 15 2007 |

erdene-ochir

Mongolia

thank you for your afford to get me away from unnecassary brausing

11:00 AM Aug 29 2007 |

basilews

Ukraine

thankx u alot!!! guys u also can visit  englishtips.org – site where u can find a great stuff for learning english: scanned versions of books!grammars!magazines…(longman,oxford,mcmilan…)  and bbc radioshows, audiobooks! all that u can download

10:00 AM Aug 29 2007 |

ramy.eg

Egypt

thank you very mush  for this useful links and i hope  its help us to improve our english skills .

thank you …

11:47 AM Aug 27 2007 |

Vickiebaby

China

wonderful

08:43 AM Aug 27 2007 |

foreverfrie

United States

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03:19 PM Aug 25 2007 |

foreverfrie

United States

中外交友网与外国人交朋友学习外语学习外国文化弘扬中国文化-了解异国风情.

make friends with foreigners-make friends with chinese

Make some chinese friends ,learn chinese,learn about china ,travel in china,china food,china images m,make friends with chinese

http://www.makefriendsonline.cn

03:18 PM Aug 25 2007 |

foreverfrie

United States

中外交友网与外国人交朋友学习外语学习外国文化弘扬中国文化-了解异国风情.

make friends with foreigners-make friends with chinese

Make some chinese friends ,learn chinese,learn about china ,travel in china,china food,china images m,make friends with chinese

http://www.makefriendsonline.cn

03:16 PM Aug 25 2007 |

BaO

BaO

China

thanks for sharing

02:28 PM Aug 25 2007 |

chocolee

chocolee

China

these skills to improve english is very good .and there are lots of wed sides about learning english.Thank you, tdmsilvino.

02:10 PM Aug 24 2007 |

xiyifei

China

i'm a new one…i'm happy to come here

02:03 AM Aug 24 2007 |

GuRuru

GuRuru

China

thanks,it’s really useful

12:54 AM Aug 23 2007 |

cybrcep

Turkey

thank you very much

11:35 AM Aug 21 2007 |

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