Englishspeak.com is a free and award winning new system for learning to speak English. The program contains lessons that give special attention to English pronunciation and everyday language. With over 100 lessons, Englishspeak.com provides a large amount of audio content. Users have access to two different speeds of playback for each item.

This is an interactive multimedia language course specially designed for improving listening and speaking skills. You can learn totally free. Fourteen lessons including animations, interactive exercises, listen and repeat and games.

Games to download and print to learn French.

Great for French language teachers but also for students learning French second language. Free materials and ressources for French teachers as well as beautiful family board games for sale. Worth taking a look at!

Language board games and card games

You can download and print these games to learn Japanese : kanas, hiraganas, katakanas and kanji. Ateliers-alea is a new concept which publishes Japanese board games to print and play. They are now preparing card games to learn Japanese grammar, pronunciation and characters.

Games to learn English
Print and Play : ALEA Games offers free card and board games for the English language teacher and student. Beautiful board games are also for sale to print. Check it out, it's worth the look!
Learn English with fun games.

ELLLO is a collection of over 800 audio activities that ESL, EFL, and English students and teachers can access freely via the net. Most audio comes with pictures of the speaker, the transcript, and downloadable audio in mp3 format.

The site 1000 images on the tip of my tongue is interactive, and focuses on idiomatic expressions that have the same meaning in French, English and Spanish, but cannot be translated word for word*. This trilingual directory provides more than 1,000 idiomatic phrases classified according to theme. Each one is inserted into a short text that illustrates its meaning and contains a digital audio file. Listening to the file allows us to fully understand all the various shades in the pronunciation. The site also includes exercises and games as well as brief, humorous animations, which contribute to the discovery of the fascinating world of colourful expressions.

A free online pronouncing dictionary with Instant Sound. American and British spellings, with alternative pronunciations. Sounds are fast, clear and completely natural, pre-recorded by native speakers. Answers the question "How do you say...?". Also referred to as a pronunciation dictionary.

MyVerbs, revision of the irregular English verbs, lists complete irregular verbs, several ways of learning your verbs: Classical mode, learning, play. All is made to simplify your learning: you are only questioned on the verbs you have learnt. Contribute to the control of the irregular English verbs. To revise becomes easier!

A free website to teach children to read. Perfect for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade. Contains exciting interactive books and phonics games.

Learn English Kids is for children who are learning English. Find games, songs, stories and lots of activities - and learn English too.

Free MP3s. Listen and learn spanish, german, english, french, russian and italian. You can produce and share audio online.

All audios are followed up with comprehension exercises. You will find everyday life themes divided into different levels of difficulty.

English training for intermediate and advanced business English learners. Each ESL podcast lesson features realistic training dialogs demonstrating different skills (meetings, presentations, telephoning, etc.) and language functions (clarifying, disagreeing, expressing opinions, etc.) for workplace english training. The target language is carefully explained with further examples of useful phrases and reinforced with a speaking practice at the end of each lesson.

The Internet Grammar of English is an online course in English grammar written primarily for university undergraduates. However, we hope that it will be useful to everyone who is interested in the English language. IGE does not assume any prior knowledge of grammar.

LanguageGuide.org offers free sound integrated resources for learning languages. These resources are developed collaboratively with the help of volunteers.

A lot of English phonetics activities.

This web-based language course will enable the student to learn vocabulary and communicative skills for placement abroad in a kitchen or restaurant. Realistic interactions with an animated chef and manager are the main ingredients of this course.

This web site aims to help students to memorize English vocabularies in an easy and efficient way, by using pictures, sounds and games. Try our games and enjoy learning, like eating chocolate.

Busimess English lesson plans and materials: Free EFL/ESL lessons, worksheets, online activities, and MP3 for teaching and studying Business English.

Worksheets, jobs, flashcards, lesson plans, and activities for teaching ESL and EFL

To use the dictionary, simply type in the word you would like to find in the box above and press the Search button. To find a Japanese definition of an English word, type in the English word. To look up a Japanese word, you must type in kana or kanji to find the definition. The dictionary is not designed to accept romanized Japanese input. You can also use wildcards ( * ) in your search.

Audio and written teacher resources and student activities for adult education.

Activist's magazine focusing on media, advertising, politics, and many other subjects. Useful for reading comprehension. Also blogs and videos.

A free study site for English as a Second Language (ESL) students with Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) activities: games, quizzes, puzzles, etc.

Interactive website to improve your comprehension of oral English This website emphasizes oral comprehension to learn English. With much fun, you will be able to revise or boost your vocabulary, but also reinforce your grammar skills. Writing is not the unique way of learning the grammar of a language or mastering its syntax.

In order to achieve these objectives, "A Listening Companion" provides you with a series of English video clips of different people responding to the same interview questions. You can watch the clip as often as you like. You can download all the files.

A simple but fast and intuitive characters dictionary, with search by radicals (+strokes), pinyin, and english.

Type in an English word and get the translations. Interesting to note that Japanese homophones are linked to a page which compares words with the same reading but different characters. Simple and easy to use.

Children's songs and nursery rhymes from
all over the globe presented both in English
and their native languages. Many include
sound clips and sheet music.

Free site to learn English. You'll find mp3 audio documents, videos, transcripts in pdf format and phonetic activities. You can listen and record yourself to improve your pronunciation. You need headphones and a mic.

On i-catcher you can watch all the video reports with sub-titles or without. Interactive comprehension exercises follow.

PhonicsZone presents high quality phonics programmes
to learn to pronounce and read the English language.

This site contains FLASH animated libraries of the phonetic sounds of English. Available for each consonant and vowel is an animated articulatory diagram, a step-by-step description, and video-audio of the sound spoken in context. It is intended for students of phonetics, linguistics, and foreign language.

Shiporsheep.com teaches British English pronunciation with minimal pairs, providing free online pronunciation and elocution lessons for ESL learners and for accent reduction.

The speech accent archive uniformly presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed. The archive is used by people who wish to compare and analyze the accents of different English speakers.

podcast website for people learning English

List of words with audio to practice your pronunciation

Here are 10 short "Shaggy Dog Stories" in mp3 format that you can download free of charge. You can also download a story called "Going to California".

LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain. There are several options for listening. The first step is to get the mp3 or ogg files into your own computer.

The Business of English is a video presentation broadcast regularly on Australia Network and available here online.

Denshi Jisho is an easy-to-use and powerful online Japanese dictionary. It lets you find words, kanji and example sentences by searching in many ways.
The dictionaries are also interlinked so that you can check what the kanji in a word mean individually or what context a word can be used in. You can also look up kanji by the parts it contain.
The data is publicly available and comes from the excellent WWWJDIC project.

Alec's free CV writing advice & tips

You will find lots of free resume / CV writing advice and tips on these pages so please bookmark this site now so that you can return to it in the future. On our other pages you will find tips and advice on how you can successfully find a job and handle interviews, links to over 200,000 jobs and much more.

TrueTube invites you to:

• THINK about social issues using video and other media
• TALK about them with fellow TrueTubers
• ACT when you’re ready to change the world.

Free site to listen to fairytales in English for kids. The stories are also available in mp3 format.

Videos to learn english online. you can choose to have sub-titles or not. The site also has transcripts that you can use in class or for personal use.

Wikisource is an online library of free content publications, collected and maintained by our community. We now have 120,707 texts in the English language library. See our inclusion policy and help pages for information on getting started, and the community portal for ways you can contribute.

free ESL Games Ideas! free MP3 Songs! English Shows! Site for ESL teachers in elementary schools. Updated monthly. Available in Japanese and English. There is even a Genki English CD available

Songs to learn English online. Just follow the animation.

Some kids songs from England.

Use these English grammar lessons for self study or to consolidate your lessons with your teacher. There is absolutely nothing to pay but please support us by buying our books and CDs in the future.

All of the public domain movies are free to download. The free movies are also legal to transfer to a mobile player or PC. No registration, fees or log in is required to watch or download these movies and videos.

Improve your vocabulary while having fun. Test Preparation & Vocabulary Building for K-12 & ESL Students. Free Flash word games including Hangman, Word search, Match Game, The Vocabulary Quiz

Free flashcards, worksheets, handouts and game cards to match, phonics materials, projects, games, and more all ready for download and printing.

Sayz Me is a free text to speech reader for Windows. Copy any text and let the software do the reading on screen for you. Let the computer talk. Great accessibily software that can magnify any page text. Uses the Microsoft speech engine and voices. Best of all its free. Download here.

English Through Stories is for advanced speakers of English wishing to improve their listening and speaking skills. These scripts may be copied by teachers for classroom use, but neither the scripts nor the files may be posted to another website. All scripts and audio files are copyright 2005 by the Center for Educational Development.

From the image to the word and its definition, the Visual Dictionary Online is an all-in-one reference. Search the themes to quickly locate words, or find the meaning of a word by viewing the image it represents. What’s more, the Visual Dictionary Online helps you learn English in a visual and accessible way.

Online free toeic test to practice your English.

ComputerBasedTest.com proudly presents EnglishMaster software to help you prepare the TOEFL, GRE, and GMAT computer-based tests (CBT) efficiently, develop your test strategies comprehensively, and improve your scores quickly.

ESL / EFL Student Resources - Grammar, Phrasal Verbs, and Vocabulary exercises, games, and quizzes - Great practice exercises for the TOEFL too!

The international English-ty literary magazine by young writers and artists ages 8 to 13; stories, poems, illustrations, art, book reviews. You can listen and download the mp3 files.

Visual Dictionary, where words are defined as pictures, for leaning the exact names of objects. Different from a traditional dictionary or from encyclopedia because the images replace the words.

Visual Dictionary, where words are defined as pictures, for leaning the exact names of objects. Different from a traditional dictionary or from encyclopedia because the images replace the words.

provides students of English as a second language with college-level texts they can listen to and read at the same time. This double input responds to the differences in students' needs and learning styles as they strive to achieve competency in English. By listening and reading at the same time, students may not only improve their comprehension, but also their pronunciation. Moreover, at the click of the mouse, the students have access to a glossary for words they might not know (words in red).

It is one more fun way to build your vocabulary! Here we provide the simplest and most frequently used expressions, all of them contain the word from the topic you select. So, let's talk about …

Behind the News is a high-energy, fun way for upper primary and secondary students to learn about current issues and events in their world.

The Guide to Grammar and Writing contains scores of digital handouts on grammar and English usage, over 170 computer-graded quizzes, recommendations on writing -- from basic problems in subject-verb agreement and the use of articles to exercises in parallel structures and help with argumentative essays, and a way to submit questions about grammar and writing. Javascript and cgi-based quizzes (form enabling required). Acrobat Reader, sound card, and PowerPoint recommended but not required.

Zinger Tales is a collection of stories told by great storytellers! Choose a storyteller below to hear the tale and get some book recommendations too! Stories are provided in RealPlayer format, which requires the free RealPlayer plug-in.