Listening & Speaking

Top Sites
 
 
Speak English Fast More than 300 conversations on various topics for you to practice speaking
 
ESL Conversations More than 1,500 conversations under different topics with high-quality audio
 
eslfast.com A free site with thousands of short essays and conversations with audio and exercises

For Beginners
 
Easy Conversations Hundreds of easy conversations, short, interesting, with slow audio
 
Speaking Is Easy Choose any topics you are interested in to practice speaking
 
Start Reading for Children (1) Simple present tense, 50 words per passage for children to start reading and listening
 
Start Reading for Children (2) 100 more 50-word passages for kids to improve English through reading and listening
 
Start Reading for Children (3) 100-word passages to improve children's reading and listening
 
English Level 1 Simple present tense, 50-word per passage with audio and exercises for English beginners
 
English Level 2 100-word essays with audio and exercises for English beginners
 
English Level 3 Short essays for English beginners to improve reading and listening
 
English Level 4 100 more short essays to improve reading and listening
 
English Level 5 200-word essays for English beginners to transition to intermediate level
 
English for Children (1) 100 super easy short stories, 50-word long, with audio and exercises
 
English for Children (2) 126 easy short stories for children and ESL/EFL beginners to practice reading and listening
 
Short Stories for Beginners (1) 200 easy stories for ESL/EFL beginners to practice reading and listening
 
Short Stories for Beginners (2) 200 more easy stories for ESL/EFL beginners to practice reading and listening
 
Beginners' Dictation 100 dictation exercises with 500 sentences
 
Travel English 100 Sentences you need to use when you travel abroad
 
American Songs Learn English through learning traditional American songs
 
Learn Songs Learn to sing folk songs, campfire songs and group-singing songs that native English speakers sing
 
Real English Lessons The Real English ESL Video Exercises - New & Exciting Lessons

Conversations
 
Speak English Fast More than 300 conversations on various topics for you to practice speaking
 
ESL Conversations More than 1,500 conversations under different topics with high-quality audio
 
Speaking Is Easy Choose any topics you are interested in to practice speaking
 
Easy Conversations Hundreds of easy conversations, short and interesting, for you to read and listen
 
Phrases for Conversations Commonly used expressions in conversations

Well-Known Sites
 
ESL Robot Practice speaking English with an intelligent language robot
 
365 Short Essays Listen to interesting short essays written for ESL learners
 
Short Stories for ESL Learners Listen to the 100 short stories, and do the questions & answers, dictation exercises.
 
Livemocha The world's largest online language learning community with more than 11 million members

Online Radio News
 
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

Online Videos
 
Learning English Video Lectures More than 100 short videos on many different topics
 
America, the Story of US Excellent American history videos with closed captioning, from Washington to Obama
 
CBS Evening News Watch CBS evening news online
 
CNN Video News Watching CNN headline news online
 
Movie Trailers New movie trailers are added quickly
 
History Channel - Video and Speeches Video and audio of famous speeches in history
 
Top 100 Speeches With video, audio, and text

Conversation Questions
 
iteslj Conversation Questions For the ESL/EFL Classroom - A project of the Internet TESL Journal
 
ESL Conversation Questions Conversation questions to help teachers foster discussion in the classroom
 
English Speaking Your source of free daily English speaking lessons.

Podcasts
 
English as a Second Language Podcast A new podcast is added each day for you to download or listen online
 
ITESLJ Podcast Links of Interest to Teachers and Students of English as a Second Language

Pronunciation
 

Pronunciation Exercises -- Minimal pair exercises created by Michael Climo to correct ESL students' pronunciation
 
Pronunciation Rules Some pronunciation rules for English words
 
American Names -- 100 most popular last names, first names, and other proper nouns with audio
 
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

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
 
Audio Bibles Choose a version, listen to a chapter every day