LISTENING & SPEAKING

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 (1). 100 super easy short stories, only 50-word long, with audio and exercises.

• English for Children (2). 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. The recent topic: Short Stories from New York City.

• Livemocha. Self-paced lessons, a vibrant community, and interactive tools to help you talk to the world

• 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.

• Learn how to pronounce words. Search for a word and watch the videos of real people in real situations naturally speaking and using the word.

• English Player. Conversation video scenes from popular movies with subtitles to read.

• 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.

Other Sites

• Foreign Languages for Travelers. An excellent site for people who want to quickly learn some useful English or other foreign language phrases.

• Conversation Questions. For the ESL/EFL Classroom - A project of the Internet TESL Journal.

• 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.