This video from the English Club gives you some ideas on how to learn English in a different way, from real life. I really enjoyed it and I hope it can be useful. If you don’t have 15 minutes to watch it now or want to share it with your peers, you can download it
If the video Thoughts from Brazil doesn’t appear, you can get it by clicking here.
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Thanks to Russel Stannard, I just discovered a great site if you want to train your listening skills. It’s called Listen A Minute and it’s got lots of short listenings with activities linked to it (quiz, rewrite the text, ….) You can download the listening files to your computer and get PDF to work off line. Cool.
Hi,
I found a new site called EnglishCentral to help you improve your English speaking and listening skills. I have set up a special account for my students, and you can sign up by clicking on this link:
http://class.englishcentral.com/beabees
Once you have done that you can log in to EnglishCentral using the email address and password you provided at sign-up and you can start browsing the videos and practicing your English right away.
Cool, isn’t it?
Hi,
After a long time of silence, here is something to fill your ears. On English Conversations you can listen to or download conversations and read the script too. You also get links to further reading by clicking on the words. Interesting indeed.
There is a very interesting article in the New York Times on learning a language on the internet.
Here’s an appetizer:
With the growth of broadband connectivity and social networks, companies have introduced a wide range of Internet-based language learning products, both free and fee-based, that allow students to interact in real time with instructors in other countries, gain access to their lesson plans wherever they are in the world, and communicate with like-minded virtual pen pals who are also trying to remember if bambino means baby.
Learning a language sometimes seems as difficult as dieting. The solution is to figure out how to stay interested after the novelty wears off.
Read more and even more on Online Language Learning.
If you’re thinking of moving to Canada to study or for a long stay, it’s a good idea to get in touch with the people at Portal do Imigrante. They have first-hand experience of the whole process, from the birth of the idea to finally feeling well and integrated there. They will be of great help to tou.
If you have any trouble with connecting ideas or would like to improve your style, I do recommend a visit to this site. Not only do they have all you need (connector summary), but they will lead you through examples and practice.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology – the famous MIT – has put on line many of their courses online for free. They have courses on about any topic (aviation, architecture, engineering, health and science technology, management). A great opportunity to improve not only English but academic and professional skills.
A visit to the MIT OCW is a real trip.
Hi,
If you’re interested in knowing what to work on next time you feel like studying grammar, why don’t you take one the Oxford Living Grammar tests? There are 3 levels, tests are different each time, and you get a diagnosis.
Could be interesting
I just noticed I had never introduced VocabGrabber here. It is a great tool if you like to read and increase your vocabulary. Here is how it works:
VocabGrabber analyzes any text you’re interested in, generating lists of the most useful vocabulary words and showing you how those words are used in context. Just copy text from a document and paste it into the box, and then click on the “Grab Vocabulary!” button. VocabGrabber will automatically create a list of vocabulary from your text, which you can then sort, filter, and save.
Select any word on the list and you’ll see a snapshot of the Visual Thesaurus map and definitions for that word, along with examples of the word in your text. Click on the word map or the highlighted word in the example to see the Visual Thesaurus in action.
Fantastic, I love it. From a single text I can travel hours and hours. I hope it can serve you too.
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