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Top Sites
ESL/EFL Conversations. Hundreds of conversations under different topics with excellent audio.
eslfast.com. A free site with hundreds of short stories and conversations for ESL/EFL learners to practice
listening and speaking.
English Language Listening Online. Listening activities come with transcripts, quizzes.
For Beginners
Easy Conversations. Hundreds of easy conversations, short, interesting, with slow audio.
English for Children. 126 easy short stories for children and ESL/EFL beginners to practice reading and listening.
Short Stories for ESL/EFL Beginners (1). 200 easy stories for ESL/EFL beginners to practice reading and
listening.
Short Stories for ESL/EFL Beginners (2). 200 more easy stories for ESL/EFL beginners to practice reading and
listening.
Real English Lessons. The Real English ESL Video Exercises - New & Exciting Lessons.
Conversations
ESL Conversations. More than 1,500 conversations under different topics with high- quality audio.
Easy Conversations. Hundreds of easy conversations, short and interesting, for you to read and listen.
Talk English. Over 500 Business English lessons for people with office jobs.
Learning Oral English Online. An online conversation book with ten lessons including Meeting Friends,
Apartment Hunting, and Shopping in USA.
Medical English Conversations. Animated dialogues for doctors, nurses, and pharmacists.
Real English Conversations. Learn how to improve your spoken English fast.
English Speaking Online. It's free and there's no software to download. All you need is a headset with a
microphone.
Free Online Software
U.S.A. Learns. Excellent ESL Online software free for everyone who wants to improve their English skills.
Ventures. Cambridge's site for teachers and students who use their textbook
Ventures.
Well-known Sites
ESL Robot. Practice speaking English, free writing with an intelligent robot.
365 Short Stories. Listen to interesting short stories written for ESL learners.
Daily Lessons. A new English lesson each day, provided by English, Baby!
Short Stories for ESL Learners. Listen to the 100 short stories, and do the questions & answers, dictation
exercises.
Free Mobile English. Access the free website through your cellphones or mobile devices and practice listening
and speaking on the go
www.eslyes.com A sister site of www.eslfast.com with new ESL short stories added weekly for ESL learners to
read and listen. The recent topic: Short Stories from New
York City.
Livemocha. Self-paced lessons, a vibrant community, and interactive tools to help you talk to the world
ESL Online Talk Community. Where you can find friends from other countries to communicate with.
Integration of Listening, Reading, and Speaking Skills. A pioneer ESL website which is the earliest in
using Web audio.
Voice of America Webcasts. Special English for English learners in the world.
BBC World News. BBC's international radio. Listen to world news, sport and weather.
National Public Radio. Hourly newscast, 24-hour program stream, listen to your favorite programs every
day.
China Radio International. Listening to the news and learning about new developments in China.
Online Videos
Learning English Video Lectures. More than 100 short videos on many different topics.
Captioned Videos. several thousands of captioned videos from all over the Internet.
History Channel - Video and Speeches. Video and audio of famous speeches in history.
Other Sites
chatbots.org. List of all chatbots - virtual assistants, chat bot, conversational agents, and virtual agents in the
World.
Foreign Languages for Travelers. An excellent site for people who want to quickly learn some useful
English or other foreign language phrases.
NIV Bible. The online text of the New International version of the Bible, good for
ESL/EFL students to read and listen.
NIV Bible Download. Excellent MP3 files of the New International Version of the
Bible.
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ESL PODCASTING
ESL Podcasts
Audio English Lessons. Over 100 Talk show ESL podcasts from two Canadian brothers.
English as a Second Language Podcast. A new podcast is added each day for you to download or listen
online.
Learn Songs. Learn to sing folk songs, campfire songs and group-singing songs that native English speakers
sing.
CNN News Update (hourly audio). The latest news happening in the U.S. and around the world.
Fox News Podcasts. Just click the Download Podcast button to sign up for
FREE FOX News podcast.
BBC Global News. The best stories, interviews and on the spot reporting from around the world.
The Economist. Watch the famous The Economist online or subsribe and download.
Other Sites
Free English Now. The free Spoken English course, downable audio files and texts, with contents from the
Bible.
History Podcast. A podcast devoted to learning about historical figures, events, and places.
Apple in Education. How Apple's products help with creating educational podcasts.
READING
Top Sites
365 Short Stories for ESL Learners. ONE STORY A DAY, YOUR ENGLISH WILL BE GREAT! THE
best ESL reading materials online! Free for everyone to use.
Daily Lessons. A new English lesson each day, provided by English, Baby!
Adult Learning Activities. California Distance Learning Project. A free site to build your reading and life
skills.
100 free short stories for ESL learners. Practice answering yes/no questions, wh- questions, asking
questions, and dictation.
For Beginners
English for Children (1). 100 short stories (50 words each), simple present tense, + Audio.
English for Children (2). 125 easy short stories for children to practice reading and listening.
Super Easy Reading for ESL Beginners. 100 short stories (50 words each), simple present tense, + Audio.
Short Stories for ESL/EFL Beginners (1). 200 Short Stories + Audio & Exercises for
ESL/EFL beginners to practice reading and listening.
Short Stories for ESL/EFL Beginners (2). 200 more easy stories for ESL/EFL
beginners to practice reading and listening.
Super Easy Reading. 200 easy stories for beginners. Some stories are the same as the stories in the Short
Stories for ESL/EFL Beginners.
Easy Reading. 2 00 easy stories for beginners. Some stories are the same as the stories in the Short Stories
for ESL/EFL Beginners.
Star Fall. A free public service to motivate children to read with phonics.
Learning Strategies
Key to College Success. About 10 pages of sincere advice about how to be successful in college. You must
read it if you are preparing to study in the U.S.
Study Skills Guides for College Students. Time management, notetaking, test taking, active listening, stress
management, researching, and memorization.
Study Skills & Strategies. Top resources for FREE information on study skills, study strategies and
study aids.
Study Skills for Students. Study skills checklist, 10 habits of highly successful students.
Antimoon.com - Learn English effectively. Articles on how to learn English effectively, based on the
experiences of successful learners.
50 States of the United States. Introduction to all the 50 states. Also learn the pronunciation of names
of the states.
Introduction to the United States of America. Online Culture Lessons by Paul
Sparks.
Bible Gateway. All kinds of versions of the Bible in English and other languages, in text or pdf format.
The English Learner Movie Guides. Detailed synopses of popular movies with an extensive glossary of
vocabulary and various cultural references.
This Day in History. A short passage each day describing a historical event in
American history.
Quotes
The Quotations Page. The largest and oldest Quotations Page on the Web with about
30 categories such as Great Leaders, Sarcasm, and Wisdom.
Literature Quotes. Quotations from the great works of literature. You can search for quotations in a
number of different ways.
Inspirational Quotes. Read quotes and sayings from famous people in history.
Quotes To Live By. Inspiring quotations that are positive and thoughtful.
Other Sites
Impossible Puzzles. By William W. Li, an MIT graduate, who came to the United States at seven. He wrote
this award-winning essay when he was thirteen.
Using Jokes and Humor to Learn English. Joe's Jokes - Read, Listen, and Learn
English. A great way to increase your vocabulary!
Jokes Collection. Jokes submitted by ESL/EFL instructors at iteslj.org for classroom use
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WRITING
Typing Practice
Touch Typing. Free Program that lets you exercise and learn Touch Typing.
Peter's Online Typing Course. A set of free online typing lessons and exercises.
Type Racer. The global typing competition. Increase your typing speed while racing against others.
Jumbled Sentences. 200 Exercises for beginners to practice creating English sentences.
Verb Tenses and Scrambled Sentences. Practice creating sentences in different verb tenses.
Writing Exercises
Dictation Exercises. Online dictation to help improve your listening and writing skills.
Sentence Structure Writing Practice. Exercises designed to practice writing wh- questions, passive voice,
adjective clauses, and noun clauses.
Free-writing Practice
Practice Free Writing with a Robot. An interesting way to improve ESL students' writing skills
Ron's ESL Blogs. For ESL teachers to exchange ideas and for ESL students to practice writing.
ESL Online Talk Community. where you can find a friend from another country to communicate with in
English.
Daily Writing Prompts. Reveal inner thoughts, and share personal observations with the help of the carefully
crafted "idea joggers".
Writing Guides
Essay Structure. Basic essay structure, and structure of essays of all different kinds.
ESL Bee. For high intermediate or advanced English learners who have never taken a formal English writing
course.
Basic Paragraph Structure. Detailed discussion of the topic sentence, body sentences, and the concluding
sentence.
The Purdue University Writing Lab Handouts. One of the earliest online writing lab. The
Handouts section provides excellent guide to academic writing. There is also a section of
English as a Second Language.
Writers' Workshop. Grammar handbook, citation styles, ESL resources, and writing tips, from the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Writing Studio. Colorado State University's online learning environment, the Writing
Studio.
Writing Guides. A concise, resource that will help you write solid college essays, research papers and book
reports.
Best Essay Tips. A student-oriented source for dealing with difficulties in writing.
Essay Info. Basics of essay writing, writing tips, essay types, citation styles, and so on.
Writing � How to write English Texts. Punctuation, essays, and business letters.
English the Easy Way. Improve your Writing Skills including help with writing a resume and cover letters.
Vocabulary Lists
The Academic Word List. 570 most frequent words in the Academic Corpus.
Vocabulary for High Intermediate Learners. Lists of the words for students who want to increase their
vocabulary to the size of 4,000 - 7,000.
Common Mistakes
Common Mistakes. A collection of some of the most frequently misspelled, commonly confused and easily
misused words.
Common Errors in English Usage. The site explains some of the most commonly misused and misunderstood
aspects of English.
Essay Topics
Good Essay Topics. A collection of great topics for your college paper or essay, and 10 tips for choosing a
thrilling essay Topic.
50 Argument Essay Topics. Good topics for your essay, speech, or debate.
Writing Worksheets. Hundreds of writing topics provide teachers with meaningful writing tasks.
Web Style Guide. An unabridged, online version of the third edition of Web Style Guide: Basic Design
Principles for Creating Web Sites, by Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton.
A Guide for Writing Research Papers. Based on styles recommended by the American
Psychological Association in question-and-answer format.
Research Tools
Web Frequency Indexer. Cut and paste an article here, and you will get a list of words used in the article.
Web Concordancer. You can search an online corpus for a word and display all the sentences in which the word
occurs.
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Top Sites
ESL Exercises. High-quality free ESL exercises for English learners to improve test- taking skills, grammar,
and writing.
Activities for ESL Students. Quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles to help you learn
English as a Second Language.
For Beginners
Easy Grammar Exercises. High-quality free grammar exercises for ESL Beginners.
Agenda Web. Hundreds of free exercises to learn English online: grammar, verbs, vocabulary, listening,
reading, songs, and videos.
English Grammar Quizzes - Easy. Hundreds of quizzes created by ESL instructors from different parts of the
world.
Essential Lessons for Beginning English Learners. Using the 25 short lessons to study for tests, review basic
English essentials.
Easy to Medium Exercises. A large collection of easy grammar exercises from different websites.
ELC Study Zone Grammar Quizzes. Good grammar exercises for English beginners.
The Grammar Aquarium. Grammar notes, online and handout exercises for EFL and
ESL.
Adele's ESL Corner. Grammar, vocabulary, and listening quizzes for beginners and intermediate levels.
Well-Known Sites
Sentence Structure Writing Practice. Exercises designed to practice writing wh- questions, passive voice,
adjective clauses, and noun clauses.
Flash Quizzes. The quizzes created by Charles I. Kelly, part of his great manythings.org website.
English Pool of Exercises. To practise different tenses according to your level of English.
Karin's ESL PartyLand. Thte Quiz Center with over 75 interactive quizzes.
EnglishClub Quizzes. Various kinds of quizzes to test your grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation.
Free English Tests for ESL/EFL. More than 1,000 grammar exercises for three different levels.
Adjective Clauses
Adjective Clauses Exercises. Combining the two sentences to make one, using an adjective clause.
Combine each pair of sentences into one sentence containing an adjective clause.
Sentence Combining. Combining a pair of simple sentences into one complex sentence containing an adjective
clause.
Who, Whom, Whose Practice using these pronouns in different kinds of sentences.
Other Sites
English Grammar Lessons. Complete grammar lessons with exercises for each topic.
BBC Quizzes. A wide range of vocabulary and grammar with thousands of questions in different kinds of
activities.
Interactive English Language Exercises. Great exercises for grammar, vocabulary, and idioms.
Online Activities. Interactive exercises about prepositions, environments, and immigrants.
The Road to Grammar. More than 200 flash quizzes to practice all the grammar points.
EFL Grammar Quizzes. All kinds of grammar exercises for beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels.
ESLCafe's Quizzes Center. Quizzes for geography, grammar, history, and people.
English on the Internet - Tests & Quizzes. Grammar tests, knowledge tests, reading comprehension and much
more.
Grammar and Vocabulary Exercises. A variety of free English grammar and vocabulary exercises for different
levels.
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Online Grammar Handbooks
English Grammar Online. All grammar topics, example sentences, and exercises.
An On-Line English Grammar Book. An online grammar book with a lot of example sentences.
Beginning Level English Grammar. Including English grammar explainations for basic grammar such as tenses,
preposition use, adjectives and adverbs and more.
GrammarHandbook. An excellent online grammar handbook which explains and illustrates the basic
grammatical rules concerning parts of speech, phrases, clauses, and
so on.
Purdue Writing Lab: Grammar. Excellent site, brought to you by the Purdue University
Online Writing Lab.
English Grammar Book. With high-quality English lessons and exercises to help English learners learn English
grammar online.
Irregular Verbs
Common Irregular Verbs. For you to quickly find out the spellings of irregular verbs.
Irregular Verbs Flashcards. With five levels and each level contains twenty irregular verbs.
Irregular Plurals
Gerunds, Participles, and Infinitives. Purdue OWL provides a detailed overview of gerunds, participles, and
infinitives.
Verb Lists: Infinitives and Gerunds. Lists of verbs followed by an infinitive, by an object and an infinitive, and
by a gerund.
Grammar Notes
Grammar City. A free site that offers free video lessons with good illustrations of grammar rules.
Articles on Grammar. More than 70 articles about English language learning, teaching and usage, giving
descriptions and explanations for some of the more common problem
areas.
Grammar Notes. Important grammar points including verb tenses, parts of speech, phrasal verbs, and
mathematical operations.
Guide to Grammar and Style. With so many different aspects of English grammar discussed.
Using English. Free English grammar and vocabulary worksheets and printable handouts.
Dr. Grammar. You can find answers to any of your grammar questions.
English Forum. Free English language help. Post your questions here and will be answered by someone.
British vs. American English. Lists of the general spelling differences between British and American English.
Differences between British and American Vocabulary. A list of words to show the spelling differences
between American and British English.
Other Sites
Common Errors in English Usage. The site explains some of the most commonly misused and misunderstood
aspects of English.
The Grammar and Punctuation Glossary. A glossary of all the grammar, and punctuation terms.
English Club Grammar. Grammar lessons also have quizzes to check your understanding.
English Grammar. A fun study site with word games, puzzles, quizzes, exercises, slang, proverbs and much
more.
Grammar Bytes. Includes detailed terms, interactive exercises, handouts, and more!
Grammar Slammer. It has an easy-to-use format to help you find what you're looking for, and provide rules and
tips about writing clear English.
Zozanga Grammar Lessons. A free and independent web site for EFL/ESL learners and teachers.
The Internet Grammar of English. An online course in English grammar written primarily for university
undergraduates.
Daily Grammar. By signing up for this free email service, you will receive a short, fun grammar lesson
Monday-Friday. There will also be a quiz each Saturday.
BBC Skillwise. Enables adults to improve reading, writing and number skills.
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VOCABULARY
Irregular Verbs
Common Irregular Verbs. For you to quickly find out the spellings of irregular verbs.
Irregular Verbs Flashcards. With five levels and each level contains twenty irregular verbs.
Irregular Plurals
English Vocabulary. Learn the pronunciation and spelling of thousands of words using an image based
interface.
Easy Vocabulary Quizzes with Pictures. You choose one of the pictures to match the word.
Vocabulary Lists
Dolch Basic English List. The 220 most frequently found words in books that children read.
EnglishClub Business English Vocabulary. some of the most common words and phrases in thirteen different
business areas.
General Service List. The list of the most frequently used 2,000 words by Michael West.
The Academic Word List. 570 most frequent words in the Academic Corpus.
The Oxford 3000�. The keywords of the Oxford 3000� were carefully selected by language experts and
experienced teachers as the words which should receive priority in
vocabulary study.
Vocabulary for High Intermediate Learners. Lists of the words for students who want to increase their
vocabulary to the size of 4,000 - 7,000.
5000 Collegiate Words. A list of words in alphabetical order with concise definitions.
Tests Preparation
TOEFL Vocabulary Exercises. Over a thousand real multiple-choice questions to prepare you for TOEFL test.
GRE Vocabulary. A free site aimed to improve your vocabulary specifically for the verbal section of GRE.
Dome SAT Prep. Comprehensive study guides, practice tests and quizzes, and smart vocabulary drills.
SAT Preparation. A vocabulary oriented site that would help you prepare for the vocabulary section of the new
SAT exam.
SAT Vocabulary. PSAT and SAT Vocabulary Flashcards and Matching Games from
Superkids.
Vocabulary Test. Free vocabulary test for TOEFL, GMT, SAT, GRE and more.
Vocabulary Level Test. Take a test to find out your vocabulary size.
British vs. American English. Lists of the general spelling differences between British and American English.
Differences between British and American Vocabulary. A list of words to show the spelling differences
between American and British English.
Vocabulary Games
Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun. Word search, crosswords, hangman, match game and jumble.
SuperKids Vocabulary Builder. Word of the day, hangman, hidden word puzzles, and word scrambler.
OZspeller. A Free Australian Online Spelling Tutor & Game with powerful features.
Words are spoken by your computer, and a large number of lists for each grade.
Vocabulary Training
Interactive English Vocabulary Exercises Online. Quizzes, Video Lessons, interactive
Vocabulary Quizzes & Games in Flash.
Illustrated Vocabulary. This site offers about 500 words from every day life in English, Dutch, and Danish in
different themes.
Vocabulary University. Learn English vocabulary in context (grades 5-12) with free word puzzles.
Vocabulix. Here you can improve your vocabulary in various foreign languages, online and free!
Free Rice. One of the most popular vocabulary learning websites, which automatically adjusts to your level of
vocabulary.
A Word a Day. Definitions and example sentences are provided. You can also click to hear its pronunciation.
The word is usually difficult.
Business_English Vocabulary Exercises. Hundreds of multiple Choice and match quizzes to practice job-
related English.
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Short Stories
English for Children (1). 100 easy short stories for kids who have just started to learn
English.
English for Children (2). 125 easy short stories for children to practice reading and listening.
Short Stories for ESL/EFL Beginners (1). 200 easy stories for ESL/EFL beginners to practice reading and
listening.
Short Stories for ESL/EFL Beginners (2). 200 more easy stories for ESL/EFL beginners to practice reading and
listening.
Short Stories for Kids. Read, listen, and watch animated cartoons.
Wacky Web Tales. Geared for grades 3 and above. Check back monthly for new tales!
Story Place. The Preschool Library and Elementary Library with new activities and themes being added each
month.
Picture Books. Free online picture books by professional illustrator and Writer Dandi
Palmer.
Math English
Math in English. Hundreds of math worksheets, puzzles, games, videos for students and teachers in grade levels
1 through 6.
Phonics
Phonics. There are phonics posters, flash cards, coloring sheets, game cards, handouts and more.
Phonics: Sounds & Word Building. Printable handouts for teachers to use in the classroom.
Videos
Kids Online English. A Youtube site from Pumpin.com for kids to learn English online.
Names of Fruits. See the fruit and learn its pronunciation and color.
Original ELF Learning. Videos for students as a way of giving them non-classroom exposure to English.
Popular Magazines
Time for Kids. A weekly magazine for kids that delivers the most current news.
Weekly Reader. A popular site for kids and teens. Read this week's feature story.
Lesson Plans
The World of Jan Brett. Jan Brett is one of the nation's foremost author illustrators of children's books.
ESL Kids Lessons. Free video slide lessons, ESL printables � worksheets, flashcards, and phonics.
Discovery Education. Discovery Channel's website with lesson plans and learning contents for all kinds of
subjects for K-12.
ESL Kids Lab. Printable ESL worksheets, games videos, kids vocabulary, grammar quizzes, and powerpoint
downloads.
Teach children ESL. Download free worksheets and flashcards, play free games and songs.
Kid Genius. Free educational software to teach alphabet, numbers, counting, and so on.
Free Stuff for Teachers. Worksheet generators, pattern sentence books, and journal writing.
Kids' Songs
Kids' Songs. With easy songs, not so easy songs, and songs for littel kids.
Games
Space Place. NASA's website for kids, including games, animations, projects, and fun facts about Earth, space
and technology.
Online Games. Top ten kid games, featured kid games, and more.
Kids' Games. Learn English with some games from British Council.
Kids' Writing Games. For kids to have fun and learn to write at the same time.
Brain Pop. Popular site for kids to learn English and other subjects.
Kids Web Japan. An attractive site for kids to learn about Japan.
Children's Literature
International Children's Digital Library. The best in children's literature are made available online.
Fairrosa Cyber Library of Children's Literature. A fairly big collection of classics, folk tales, and professional
journals.
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site. This is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to
use them in the classroom.
Other Sites
Exercise and Nutrition Guide for Kids Information about how important it is to keep your kids active to
promote good health
Colorin Colorado. A free site to provide information, activities and advice for educators and Spanish-speaking
families.
Biography. Inspiring lives from historical figures to contemporary icons.
Handwriting for Kids. Kids are shown in simple steps how to write the numbers, letters, and sentences.
Kids' Health. Dealing with feelings, recipes, everyday illnesses, injuries, and kids' talk.
ESL Kids Stuff.Some excellent links for both teachers and students.
Room 108. A primary education site for kids with lots of free online games but all with an educational focus.
BUSINESS ENGLISH
Conversations at Work
Employment. Conversations on many topics, from finding a job, at work, to collecting unemployment benefits.
Talk in the Office. Each lesson contains multiple sentences that you can click on to learn how to say that
sentence.
Business Reading
ESL Business English Online. Read articles about how to improve your business English and make big money.
Business English for Different Topics. A large collection of English reading materials and quizzes under
different topics.
Business News
The Wall Street Journal. Read the latest news in the business world.
Business Week Online. The online magazine carries news articles on current business affairs.
BBC Business English. Business Section of the BBC News with current news articles.
Business Writing
Guide to Basic Business Letters. Providing the phrases that are usually found in any standard business letter.
Business Writing. A blog on business writing with expert advice and examples.
Business Writer's Free Library. General resources and advice, basic writing skills, and types of correspondence.
BBC Business English. English for work and business: from writing a CV to job interview techniques, and
from business travel to working abroad.
English for Business. Business vocabulary, writing, reading, and speaking skills.
Business English Lessons. Business English exercises for students to develop their language skills.
Business English Themes. Choose an issue you want to read and then do the exercises.
TESL: Business English. The Internet TESL Journal's Business English page.
Business English Site. Content was created by people with many years of corporate experience.
English for Work. Very good free online English learning materials for nurses, police, travelers, hotel staff, and
airline staff.
Blair English. 30 minutes business English, social vocabulary and expressions in their context.
Business Vocabulary
Business English Vocabulary Exercises. Learning business expressions, idioms, and abbreviations through
doing exercises.
EnglishClub Business English Vocabulary. some of the most common words and phrases in thirteen different
business areas.
Business Vocabulary. Lists of business vocabulary, useful phrases and terms, and abbreviations.
Business Vocabulary Library. Essential business English nouns, verbs, letter writing phrases, and English
telephone languages.
Business English Exercises. Entering the correct word to build compound expressions related to various
business topics.
Business Terminology
Invest Words. The most comprehensive financial glossary with over 7,500 terms.
Financial Dictionary. Providing concise definitions of 8,000 terms with 18,000 useful links.
Financial and Business Terms. Over 2,500 Entries grouped by first letter with example usage of each term.
Business Terms Glossary. More than 1,250 business terms organized and cross- referenced.
Business Jargon Dictionary. The Ridiculous Business Jargon your co-workers use all the time.
Trading Glossary. Trading, Financial, and Business Glossary for traders of stock and investment market.
Accounting Terminology Guide. An educational tool for journalists who report on and interpret financial
information.
The Devil's Derivatives Dictionary. A huge online Business English dictionary.
Guides
Guide to Career Education. Your ultimate resource for finding degree programs, vocational schools, and career
training.
Business English Certificate. An internationally recognised business qualification to show that you have learned
English to an appropriate standard.
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PRONUNCIATION
Videos
Pronunciation tips. An introduction to certain features of standard British English pronunciation.
Rachel's English. A series of videos explaining in detail how each sound is created.
American English Sounds. Watch the video to learn how to pronounce different English sounds.
Exercises
American English Pronunciation. Exercises for every sound with audio available.
English Pronunciation and Listening. Excellent exercises and demonstration of how to pronounce each English
sound.
American English Pronunciation Practice. Minimal pair practice and quizzes by Charles
Kelly.
Most Often Mispronounced Words. The 100 most often mispronounced English words.
Sounds
International Phonetic Association's The major as well as the oldest representative organisation for phoneticians
since 1886.
Vowels of American and British English. Vowel charts and database.
English alphabet and pronunciation. The sounds represented here are those of British
English spoken with RP accent.
Type IPA phonetic symbols online. A free online editor for typing transcriptions of
English words in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Stress
Pronunciation Exercises. Rhythm, stress, schwa, voiced and voiceless, and minimal pairs exercises.
Tongue Twisters
Tongue Twisters. The world's largest collection of tongue twisters, with 2680 entries in
105 languages.
Proper Nouns
A Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Nouns. Popular first names, last names, nick names, and names of 50
states, and 43 Presidents.
Pronunciation of Names of People and Places. English Pronunciation Guide to the Names of People, Places,
and Stuff.
Pronunciation of Words and Phrases. Type in a word or phrase to listen to its pronunciation, including proper
nouns.
Software
Speech at CMU. Open Source Speech Software from Carnegie Mellon University.
Accent School. A FREE software package that offers accent reduction lessons.
Other Links
English Pronunciation. Covering both British and American English pronunciation and accents.
Dictionary of American Idioms. More than 8000 idiomatic words and phrases of
American English online.
Answers.com's Idiom Pages. Where you can find almost any idioms you are looking for.
Dictionary of English Idioms & Idiomatic Expressions. A list of 1,885 Idioms in alphabetical order.
Slang
How to speak English fluently. Understanding the slang native speakers of English use in their daily
conversations. New items are added constantly.
English Daily - Slang. Hundreds of idioms and slang with definitions, examples, etymology.
Commonly Used American Slang. Nineteen pages of slang collected by Charles I. Kelly
& Lawrence E. Kelly.
Exercises
Idioms in Videos. Click on an idiom to see a list of videos that use it.
Eye on Idioms. Complete the sentence by selecting the correct idiom from the list.
Pocket English Idioms. Hundreds of idioms. Click a keyword and get the idiom with an example sentence.
Self-Study Idiom Quizzes. Including phrasal verbs, and slang, divided into medium and difficult levels.
Proverbs in English. Very commonly-heard proverbs and old sayings, matching quizzes, and crossword
puzzles.
Business Idioms
Business Idioms. Choose an idiom and click on it to go directly to the explanation and example.
American English Business Idioms. A list of idioms commonly used in the American workplace with meanings
and examples.
Ridiculous Business Jargon. Over 350 of the worst phrases used in the business world today.
Idiom Collections
English Idioms, Sayings, and Slang. Idioms in alphebatical order, each with a definition, and an example
sentence.
Slang City. Yeah, baby! Check out this cool online guide to American slang, including explanations of popular
songs and movies, bad words, pronunciation and more.
Idioms Site. Hundreds of idioms in alphabetical order. It also tells you where and when the idiom originated.
Dennis Oliver's ESL Idiom Page. You can see a complete list, or meanings and examples.
Speak, Read, and Write. Hundreds of idioms, slang, phrasal verbs and proverbs with context examples.
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TRANSLATION
Top Sites
GOOGLE Translation. Instant translation, the best online translation you can ever get.
Google Language Tools. Translate betweeen English and many other languages.
SYSTRAN Language Translation. Systran Language Translation Technology translates websites instantly.
Other Sites
Free Translation Online. Translation of text pages between English and Russian, German, French, Spanish and
Italian.
World Lingo. Free online language translator. Text translator, web translator, and email translator.
Babylon Translation. Free Online Translation service enables you to translate single words, idiomatic
expressions and phrasal verbs into more than 20 languages.
Be Translated Free translation and translation services for several different languages.
Translation Services. English can be translated into Spanish, French, German, Italian, and
Portuguese. Just cut and paste the text and click the translation button.
Language Translation. A free translation website allowing you to translate web pages and text into different
languages.
Travlang's Translation Dictionaries. Online Translating Dictionaries that can translate many languages
exchangeably.
Word Reference Dictionary. Free online translation dictionaries. The most popular dictionaries are the Spanish
Dictionary, French Dictionary and the Italian Dictionary.
Spanish Dictionary. Type in an English word and get its Spanish translation.
English-Spanish Translation Services. Computer generated translations can help with a specific word and
phrase in much the same way as an online dictionary
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DICTIONARIES
Well-Known English Dictionaries
Your Dictionary. The #1 Online Dictionary gives you definitions, thesaurus entries, spelling, pronunciation, and
etymology results.
Cambridge International Dictionaries. Online dictionaries of English, idioms, and phrasal verbs.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Provides a free online dictionary, thesaurus, audio pronunciation, word
games, and word of the day.
Newbury House dictionary of American English. Over 40,000 entries with simple, clear definitions, and a
wealth of sample sentences and idioms.
Vocabulary. The world's fastest, smartest dictionary: Start typing a word and you'll see the definition.
Bilingual Dictionaries
English<>Spanish Dictionary. Compilation of general and academic terminology that students and
professionals encounter.
Dictionary of Spanish. With over 54,000 entries. You can enter English word to find Spanish word or enter
Spanish word to find English word. You can also hear the pronunciation of the word.
English-French Dictionary. The dictionary contains over 75,000 terms. You can search for an English word or a
French word.
Visual Dictionaries
Picture Dictionary. A completely free, online multilingual picture dictionary designed for
ESL students.
Visual Dictionary Online. 20,000 terms with contextual definitions, developed by terminology experts.
Visual Dictionary. To learn by way of image with thematic, clear and precise pages, with concise and rigorous
texts.
Pronunciation of Names of People and Places. English Pronunciation Guide to the Names of People, Places,
and Stuff.
Pronunciation of Words and Phrases. Type in a word or phrase to listen to its pronunciation, including proper
nouns.
Acronym
Acronym Finder. The world's largest and most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms and abbreviations.
Acronym. A big acronym database. New acronyms are constantly added by users.
Thesaurus
Online Thesaurus. Excellent thesaurus, a dictionary of synonyms by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC.
thesaurus.com. Quickly find accurate and up-to-date synonyms, antonyms, and related words.
Visual Thesaurus. An online thesaurus and dictionary of over 145,000 words that you explore using an
interactive map.
Homonym
Homonym. The list contains homonyms as well as homophones with definintions for each word.
Other Dictionaries
WordNet Search. An online lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic
theories of human lexical memory.
Netlingo. It contains hundreds of words and definitions that describe the technology and community world of
the Web.
Online Dictionary of Computing. It contains over 13,000 hypertext links to different terms.
Meta Dictionary. This site searches through over 400 dictionaries for the word you type in.
A Multi-Purpose Dictionary. It is a dictionary where you can find rhymes, synonyms, match consonants, and
even search for pictures for the word you type in.
Free Online Dictionary � Comprehensive English dictionary with word definitions, synonyms, and antonyms.
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ENCYCLOPEDIAS
Well-Known Encyclopedias
Wikipedia. The world's largest web-based and fastest growing free encyclopedia built collaboratively.
Yahoo Kids Encyclopedia. Using Yahoo! Kids, properties and features, suggesting sites, and more.
Information Resources
Answers.com Free "one-stop shop" with instant information on over 4 million topics.
Refdesk. A free, user-friendly site that indexes and reviews quality, credible, and current web-based resources.
RCL Resources for College Libraries. A core collection of hand-selected titles in 58 curriculum-specific subject
areas.
The Catholic Encyclopedia. One of the biggest Catholic resources on the Internet, containing more than 10000
articles.
Encyclopedia of Psychology. A collection of links to many areas of psychology. There are about 2,000 links.
The Encyclopedia of Earth. The authors and publisher invite you to contribute to the revised edition.
Encyclopedia Smithsonian Art & Design, History & Culture, Science & Technology.
Facts Encyclopedia. Index, review, and publish quality, credible information-based Web sites.
Medical encyclopedia. Including over 4,000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries.
Web Concordancer. You can search an online corpus for a word and display all the sentences in which the word
occurs.
ESL MAGAZINES
Top Sites
The Internet TESL Journal. Articles, research papers, lessons plans, classroom handouts, teaching Ideas &
links.
TESL-EJ. An internationally recognized source of ESL and EFL information with new books review and new
media review.
Language Learning & Technology. A refereed journal for language educators who are interested in using
computers.
TESOL Quarterly. A refereed professional journal, fosters inquiry into English language teaching and learning
by providing a forum for TESOL professionals to share their
research findings.
TESOL Journal. To access full text of TESOL Journal, you must be a member.
Essential Teacher. Essential Teacher has been replaced by TESOL Journal. Here is the archive as a member
resource.
ELT Journal. The ELT Journal is a quarterly publication for all those involved in the field of teaching English
as a second or foreign language.
CALL Journals
The Journal of Technology, Learning and Assessment. JTLA is a peer-reviewed, scholarly on-line journal
addressing the intersection of computer-based technology,
learning, and assessment.
Teaching English with Technology. A Journal for Teachers of English by IATEFL Poland - Computer Special
Interest Group.
Journals of Language Associations
Journal of International Association for Language Learning Technology. The Journal is a fully refereed
professional journal, published twice yearly. Now available online to
IALLT members.
Journal of Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium. A Journal devoted to research and discussion
on technology and language learning. Articles can be purchased
online.
The Language Teacher. The monthly publication of the Japan Association for Language
Teaching (Zenkoku Gogaku Kyoiku Gakkai).
Other Sites
Topics. A popular online magazine of learners of English, who express their ideas and opinions, and illustrate
their writings with drawings and photos.
The Reading Matrix. A fully-refereed journal with an editorial board of scholars in the fields of second
language acquisition and applied linguistics.
The Linguist on Language. Steve Kaufmann's blogs as a Web Journal with new articles published every few
days.
Asian EFL Journal. one of the world's prime refereed and indexed online journals for teaching and learning
English.
The International TEYL Journal. An educational journal that publishes new research findings, review articles,
on a wide variety of topics of importance to those who teach
ESL or EFL to children.
NEWSPAPERS
Baltimore Sun
Boston Globe
Chicago Tribune
USA Today
Washington Post
Washington Times