LISTENING & SPEAKING
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Top Sites
- ESL/EFL Conversations. Hundreds of conversations under different topics with excellent audio.
- eslfast.com. A free site with hundreds of short stories and conversations for ESL/EFL learners to practice listening and speaking.
- ESL Listening Lab. Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab.
- English Language Listening Online. Listening activities come with transcripts, quizzes.
For Beginners
- Easy Conversations. Hundreds of easy conversations, short, interesting, with slow audio.
- English for Children. 126 easy short stories for children and ESL/EFL beginners to practice reading and listening.
- Short Stories for ESL/EFL Beginners (1). 200 easy stories for ESL/EFL beginners to practice reading and listening.
- Short Stories for ESL/EFL Beginners (2). 200 more easy stories for ESL/EFL beginners to practice reading and listening.
- Real English Lessons. The Real English ESL Video Exercises - New & Exciting Lessons.
Conversations
- ESL Conversations. More than 1,500 conversations under different topics with high-quality audio.
- Easy Conversations. Hundreds of easy conversations, short and interesting, for you to read and listen.
- Talk English. Over 500 Business English lessons for people with office jobs.
- Phrases for Conversations. Commonly used expressions in conversations provided by ESLgold.
- Learning Oral English Online. An online conversation book with ten lessons including Meeting Friends, Apartment Hunting, and Shopping in USA.
- Focus English. A conversation site created by John Liang.
- Medical English Conversations. Animated dialogues for doctors, nurses, and pharmacists.
- Real English Conversations. Learn how to improve your spoken English fast.
- English Speaking Online. It's free and there's no software to download. All you need is a headset with a microphone.
Free Online Software
- U.S.A. Learns. Excellent ESL Online software free for everyone who wants to improve their English skills.
- Ventures. Cambridge's site for teachers and students who use their textbook Ventures.
Well-known Sites
- ESL Robot. Practice speaking English, free writing with an intelligent robot.
- 365 Short Stories. Listen to interesting short stories written for ESL learners.
- Daily Lessons. A new English lesson each day, provided by English, Baby!
- Short Stories for ESL Learners. Listen to the 100 short stories, and do the questions & answers, dictation exercises.
- Free Mobile English. Access the free website through your cellphones or mobile devices and practice listening and speaking on the go.
- www.eslyes.com A sister site of www.eslfast.com with new ESL short stories added weekly for ESL learners to read and listen.
- Livemocha. The world’s largest online language learning community with more than 11 million members.
- ESL Online Talk Community. Where you can find friends from other countries to communicate with.
- Integration of Listening, Reading, and Speaking Skills. A pioneer ESL website which is the earliest in using Web audio.
Online Radio News
- Voice of America Webcasts. Special English for English learners in the world.
- BBC World News. BBC's international radio. Listen to world news, sport and weather.
- National Public Radio. Hourly newscast, 24-hour program stream, listen to your favorite programs every day.
- China Radio International. Listening to the news and learning about new developments in China.
Online Videos
- Learning English Video Lectures. More than 100 short videos on many different topics.
- Captioned Videos. several thousands of captioned videos from all over the Internet.
- CNN Video News. Watching CNN headline news online.
- Movie Trailers. New movie trailers are added quickly.
- Daily Comedy Video Show. Watch TV news in an interesting way.
- History Channel - Video and Speeches. Video and audio of famous speeches in history.
- Top 100 Speeches. With video, audio, and text.
Conversation Questions
- iteslj Conversation Questions. For the ESL/EFL Classroom - A project of the Internet TESL Journal.
- ESL Conversation Questions. Conversation questions to help teachers foster discussion in the classroom.
Other Sites
- chatbots.org. List of all chatbots - virtual assistants, chat bot, conversational agents, and virtual agents in the World.
- Foreign Languages for Travelers. An excellent site for people who want to quickly learn some useful English or other foreign language phrases.
- Conversational structures. Common conversational structures, idioms and phrases.
- NIV Bible. The online text of the New International version of the Bible, good for ESL/EFL students to read and listen.
- NIV Bible Download. Excellent MP3 files of the New International Version of the Bible.
- Audio Bibles. Choose a version, listen to a chapter every day.