Posted by: Hsiao-yun on: 27 October 2009
Today I want to focus on three BBC podcasts targeted at English language learners.
6 Minute English aims to teach useful English language for everyday situations. The podcast is updated every Wednesday and each episode is about 6 minutes long.
Talk About English helps you to improve your vocabulary, grammar and listening. Each episode is about 11 [...]
Posted by: Hsiao-yun on: 25 October 2009
Here’s a rather fun site, English Online, by the British Council in China. Though designed for Chinese speakers (the site is bilingual), I think it would be interesting and useful for other learners of English too. I especially like the Exams & Work, and Games sections.
Posted by: Hsiao-yun on: 23 October 2009
English Club is a self-study site that was recommended to me today by a colleague. There are lots of free lessons on all the four skills (Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing), as well as Grammar and Vocabulary. You’ll also find games, quizzes, videos and even chat rooms where you can chat with other English learners online.
Posted by: Hsiao-yun on: 18 November 2008
Being able to speak English fluently is a struggle for many learners. In this series of podcasts, you will hear about various ways you can improve yourself in this area. This is great for listening practice too!
Better Speaking is all about how you can become a fluent, confident speaker of English. In the [...]
Posted by: Hsiao-yun on: 18 November 2008
Here’s another multimedia resource from BBC Learning English, Watch and Listen. The videos and podcasts here aren’t based on news topics, and are a nice alternative to the news programmes I recommended previously.
Posted by: Hsiao-yun on: 18 November 2008
To add to my previous posts on listening to the news online, I’d like to recommend podcasts from guardian.co.uk. Download them to listen on the go. I’d recommend this for Upper Intermediate and Advanced students.
Posted by: Hsiao-yun on: 18 November 2008
Teacher and journalist Sam Margolis has put together a great site that makes news in English easier for English language learners. Simple English News covers a wide variety of news, and even has sections for tests, songs and recipes.
Posted by: Hsiao-yun on: 6 August 2007
A really good way to read extensively is to keep up with the daily news online. The great thing about doing this is that, very often, you can also listen and/or watch the news online. Sometimes, you can even download them onto your iPod or media player, and listen/watch while you’re on the go.
In addition, it [...]
Posted by: Hsiao-yun on: 16 May 2007
Mark is an English language teacher in Taiwan who’s learning Chinese (Mandarin). Recently, he blogged about a good way he’s found for learning languages. See his post here.
The trick is to use those short periods of time you have everyday when you can’t do much anyway (such as when you’re travelling to school). I think [...]
Posted by: Hsiao-yun on: 15 May 2007
If you would like to improve your English by listening to and reading the news, you might be interested in these two websites.
VOA (Voice of America) Special English News uses clear and simple American English, and the stories are read at a slower speed. There are lots of stories and different topics to choose [...]
