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Resources for Listening Practice

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The best way to improve your listening skills is to listen to a wide variety of materials. Here are some websites where you can listen to many different things on many different topics.

 

News:

News in Easy English:

VOA News in Special English http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/index.cfm

Penguin Dossiers http://www.penguindossiers.com

Breaking News English http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/

 

News in Authentic English:

National Public Radio http://www.npr.org/

CNN http://www.cnn.com

Reuters http://www.reuters.com/news/video

New York Times video http://video.on.nytimes.com/

MSNBC (NBC News) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

ABC TV News http://abcnews.go.com/

CBS TV News http://www.cbsnews.com/

CBC News (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) http://cbc.ca/news/

BBC News (British Broadcasting Corporation http://bbc.co.uk/

VOA News (regular English) http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/

World English http://www.world-english.org/listening.htm  Here you can listen to radio broadcasts in English from the U.S., Canada, England, Australia, and other countries.

New York Times videos  http://video.nytimes.com/?src=hp1-0-V

60 Minutes videos http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/60minutes/main3415.shtml

 

Other listening practice designed for ESL students:

Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab http://www.esl-lab.com/

English Listening Lesson Library Online http://www.elllo.org/

Real English http://real-english.com/

English Listening Lounge http://www.englishlistening.com/

Online English Language Center Listening Links http://oelp.uoregon.edu/listen.html

 

More challenging listening practice:

Apple's iTunes University: http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/ You can download and watch lectures from universities all over the world on many topics. (Best of all, it's free!) You'll need to download iTunes software, but that's free too, and it's available for both Macs and Windows computers.

 

Academic Earth: http://academicearth.org/ "Thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars" on all kinds of topics. This is great for some challenging but stimulating listening practice.

 

TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design): http://www.ted.com/ "Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to all the world."

 

This I Believe: United States version.http://www.npr.org/series/4538138/this-i-believe A series of essays about people's basic beliefs and philosophy, read by their authors.

 

This I Believe: Canadian version. http://www.cbc.ca/thisibelieve/

 

The Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts. http://www.thersa.org/ "RSA Animate" is especially cool.

 

Boston University Videos: http://www.bu.edu/buniverse/  Videos uploaded by Boston University teachers and students.

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