ESL: Websites: Listening and Speaking

Hundreds of stories and conversations for ESL learners to practice listening and speaking.

EVC's ESL pronunciation/listening/speaking resource.

An engaging, multimedia approach to learning. Features specially prepared news videos, an ongoing YouTube series called The Flatmates, and an audio series entitled Keep Your English Up To Date. Also included are listening and reading exercises, quizzes, message boards, and discussion groups.

Learn English naturally by listening to speakers from all over the world.

Links to listening resources for advanced English learners. Resources include free online news and culture broadcasts, online music, online movies, online radio and more.

Dictation practice, monthly news digests, links to English language radio stations, strategies for increasing your daily exposure to English, and more.

Listening activities, organized by topic and level of difficulty, designed to help improved listening comprehension skills.

Basic, intermediate, and advanced level listening practice.

Click on an idiom for a sample paragraph providing a definition of the idiom and an illustration of how it is used.

Provides definitions, sample sentences, etymology, and synonyms.

Sound-integrated resources for 13 different languages (with a choice of 21 native language interfaces). Particularly helpful for vocabulary building and word pronunciation.

Vocabulary building for advanced English language learners.

Survival English, synonyms and antonyms, lists of useful words, figures of speech, idioms, and quotes.

Includes sections on word stress, sentence stress, homophones, phonetics, and more.

Pronunciation exercises from Merriam-Webster's Learner's Dictionary.

Pronunciation exercises and quizzes from Interesting Things for ESL Students

Explanations, instructions, and audio files to help you pronounce sounds correctly.

Handouts, audio practice, and diagrams showing the shape of the mouth when making sounds.

Improve your conversational English skills by listening to native speakers talk about various topics and practicing responding to real-life conversations.

Covers greetings and ways of addressing people in English, telephone English, and more.

Learn what to say and how to say things in daily conversations.