*Useful English Language Learning Links* *Sites with a rich source of British English*
BBC World Service <http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/index.shtml>. News, articles, and RealAudio broadcasts in a wide range of languages from the World Service. BBC English Radio <http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish> English language learnig & teaching. Your initial starting point to help you learn English using the BBC's World Service radio which gives some great tips on how to start learning English using radio programmes. *Sites with a rich source of American English* CNN News <http://www.cnn.com/>24-Hour Non-Stop Headlines,World News,US News and Weather News. Voice of America (VOA) . The VOA newsroom<http://www.voa.gov/newsnow/index.html>has live news via the internet as well as a seven day archive. If you want to listen with a radio, schedules and frequencies can be found here<http://www.voa.gov/allsked.html>. America's Public Broadcast Service Online NewsHour<http://www.pbs.org/newshour/>There is a text only <http://www.pbs.org/newshour/textonly/home_text.html> version of this which you can use to check your listening comprehension. Interactive Listening Comprehension Practice <http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/lcra/> Produced by Doug Mills from the Lingua Centre at the University of Illinois. This site has a number of interactive listening comprehension exercises based on excerpts from American radio and TV programmes. These exercises are best for intermediate to quite advanced learners. Try it! *Other sources of English* CBC Radio on The Internet <http://cbc.ca/onair/> This is the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's radio station. The site uses real audio so you can listen live! World Radio Networks (WRN) <http://www.wrn.org/%20>WRN broadcasts international news and feature programming from public radio stations in over 20 countries around the world via satellite, cable and the internet Radio Australia <http://www.abc.net.au/>'s Asia Pacific programme is broadcast live on Saturdays. Audio Archives<http://www.abc.net.au/ra/asiapac/listen.htm%20>at date back to April 1998. There's a useful link to Regional Extra which has a list of articles related to the archived radio programmes. RTHK on line <http://www.rthk.org.hk/>live broadcasts of radio programmes in English. The files can be either sent as a continuous stream to your pc or you can download them and listen to them in your own time and at your own pace. Timecast: The RealAudio Guide <http://realguide.real.com/> A complete listing of RealAudio Broadcasts from around the globe - concerts, video, radio and TV. Take a look! *English - References* YourDictionary.com <http://www.yourdictionary.com/>home to more than 150 dictionaries. Multilingual dictionaries, specialty Engish Dictionaries, thesauri and other vocabulary aids, language identifiers and Guessers, and index of Dictionary indices and a wev of on-line grammars Merriam-Webster OnLine <http://www.m-w.com/> provides a free, searchable on-line dictionary and thesaurus, word games, a word of the day, and many other English language and vocabulary reference tools and resources. Multilingual Tools and Services<http://www2.echo.lu/libraries/en/mling.html>. Links to online dictionaries, search engines, and other resources, in a variety of languages. Dictionary.com <http://www.dictionary.com/> Free online English dictionary, thesaurus and reference guide, crossword puzzles and other word games, online translator and Word of the Day. Encyclopedia.com <http://www.encyclopedia.com/> More than 14,000 articles from The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Third Edition have been assembled to provide free, quick and useful information on almost any topic. Encarta (R) Online Home <http://www.encarta.msn.com/> Encarta Online is the home for the Encarta Concise Encyclopedia, the Encarta Schoolhouse educational site and Encarta Explore, an ever-changing resource for exploration. Encyclopeida <http://www.encyberpedia.com/cyberlinks/links/html/gp4.html>EncyberPedia.The Living Encyclopeida. Good sections on Common Errors in English, Online English Grammar, and Writing Resources Online. *English - Listening* The English Listening Lounge <http://www.englishlistening.com/>Learn English by listening. Study anytime, any place. It's easy, and it's fun. Listen to real people speaking real English. Your English will improve quickly. Foreign Languages for Travellers <http://www.travlang.com/languages/>. Basic words and expressions in a wide range of languages, both text and sound. You can also search for a particular word/phrase to be translated into all the languages. The Yamada Language Center <http://babel.uoregon.edu/>records a wide variety of programming every weekend. The weekend schedule broaden the cultural scope. This allows language students a chance to peer deeper inside the country they're studying and foreign students to get a taste of home. *English - Pronunciation* Guide to Pronunciation <http://www.m-w.com/pronguid.htm> This page gives the pronunciation symbols from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. The International Phonetic Alphabet<http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipachart.html>This is the full pronunciation chart produced by The International Phonetic Association. *English - Vocabulary & Grammar* CNN Newsroom for ESL <http://lc.byuh.edu/CNN_N/CNN-N.html>* *An excellent site to practise English grammar and vocabulary with authentic news articles based upon a weekly CNN broadcast throughout the school year. Materials are categorised according to grammar items and dates. Don't miss it. WordWatch <http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/wordwatch.html> Weekly commentary on a common word or phrase taken out of the Bank of English - COBUILD's database of current English. The commentary not only offers a definition of the word or phrase but also discusses interesting details about its usage. Longman Dictionaires <http://www.awl-elt.com/dictionaries/> This site has word games, study exercises and lesson plans. World Wide Words <http://www.quinion.com/words/usagenotes/>- Usage Notes Short articles about words that often cause problems. *Learning* 'First Sight, Second Thoughts' <http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/firstsight/>looks at the lives of six people who have settled in Britain. Read and listen to their stories and then try the exercises. 4 video and 2 audio narratives. Language Exercises <http://www.goethe-verlag.com/tests/>. Cloze tests in German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, and English. The Learning Group: Personalised Learning Games <http://www.quia.com/>. Create your own language learning game online (as a Java applet), or play games created by other authors. Interactive Learning Resources <http://www.otan.dni.us/cdlp/education/>Vocabulary and comprehension exercises based on CNN New stories. You can read as well as listen to the new stories. Gammar Safari, The Lingua Centre<http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/web.pages/grammarsafari.html>This site includes lots of suggested activities to learn about how particular grammar items are used in WWW materials. Particularly good for independent learners or teachers. *Online Writing Labs* Online Writing Room <http://www.usca.sc.edu/uscaonlinewr/olwr.html>The mission of the Writing Room is to provide an open teaching and learning environment for the collaborative discussion of writing so that students may become more aware and independent writers. TC's Online Writing Lab <http://www.taft.cc.ca.us/jbuddell/owl.html>Help with essays, research papers,writing tutors, helpful documents. Paradigm Online writing assistant <http://www.powa.org/>Writing informal essays, thesis, argumentative essays, exploratory essays, and documenting your sources *Quotations* Quotations <http://www.ability.org/quotat.html> Collections including Advice(good and bad), Proverbs, Annoying Proverbs, Wit, Famous Leaders, Recent, Wisdom, Micellaneous Malapropisms, Posters with Quotes, The Quotations Page <http://www.starlingtech.com/quotes/index.html> A large site devoted to quotations from famous people and literature. Over 10,000 quotations are available for searching and browsing. Includes the popular Quotes of the Day. Quotations by Writers<http://www.intelligentsianetwork.com/wquotations/wquotations.htm>Those who live by their words. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "English Learner's Cafe" group. 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