Ana Vallecillo: Listening and Pronunciation Skills

BRITISH COUNCIL

CONVERSATIONAL ENGLISH SKILLS

Focus English
Randall's ESL lab - Listen to audio conversations and answer quizzes.
Real English contains a large collection of short videos of people speaking English on the streets of countries throughout the world, many of them with lessons and exercises.

EXERCISES

5 Minute English Lessons - short self-study English lessons with explanations and exercises.
English Listening Online - A large selection of video clips from around the world that improve listening skills.
English Listening Exercises
English with Jennifer - An online ESL teacher who presents excellent pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar lessons.
English Listening
English Listening FluentLand
ESL Language Learning - Listen and Read
Listen a minute

LECTURES

CAL. Learning English Online at Warwick. Listening to Lectures Development Site
Top Ten Speeches

American English
Australian Network
BBC Learning English
Learning English with CBC Manitoba - CBC news broadcasts lessons designed for intermediate learners of English.
U.S.A Learns - Improve reading, speaking and listening skills with interactive lessons for all levels of English learners.
Listen Current - Real world public radio stories that span the curriculum. lessons that support all learners.

PODCASTS

BBC Radio produce a growing number of podcasts of their programmes (British English).
English as a Second Language. It is a well-known podcast produced by the Center for Educational Development in Los Angeles, California.
English On-line, compiled by the University of Franche-Comte, has links to interactive exercises and other resources for English learners.
Learn-english-today contains many useful resources, notes, exercises and links for English learners.
NASA podcasts, también en ScienceatNASA
Storynory produce podcast stories for children which may be helpful to learners of English (British English)
Tu Inglés podcast
The English Teacher John Show is also produced in Japan, but has a wide listenership around the world (American English).
The BBC and the BBC World Service all contain extensive information and links for English language learners
The Poetry Archive contains recordings of poets reading their own poetry. You can listen to the poems while reading the text on screen. There is an onward link to the Children’s Poetry Archive.
The Guardian newspaper website contains a useful list of English language resources on the web.
Audio-Lingua offers mp3 recordings in several languages.

PRONUNCIATION

English Pronunciation - Watch and listen to the sounds of the English language.
FORVO. All the words in the world pronounced.
Howjsay. World's Largest Dictionary of English Pronunciation.
Pronunciation with Rachel - Improve your English pronunciation using videos.
Sounds of English - Practice specific sounds of the English language.
ElementalEnglish
RealLifeEnglish
American Spoken English
Hello Spoken English