Free Resources for learning English

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Free Resources

  • TuneIn Radio with over 100,000 stations has the largest selection of free sports, music, talk & news radio from around the world.
  • RhinoSpike is an online language learning community that allows users around the world connect and exchange foreign language audio files. Get any foreign language text read aloud for you by a native speaker!
  • VOA Learning English allows you to listen to the news in English and improve your listening and vocabulary at the same time.
  • Lyrics Training provides gap-fills for well known English songs. Great for listening, grammar and vocabulary.
  • iTalki is a language learning social network that connects students and language teachers.
  • Verbling lets language learners connect with native speakers around the world through live chat and video.
  • Bussuu is one of the biggest language exchange communities on the web.
  • Internations is a huge network of English speakers living abroad. Use it to connect with English speakers in your country.
  • VoiceThread is a tool that allows you to up load pictures and videos and then record yourself talking about them.
  • Forvo allows you to simply type in a word and hear how a native speaker would say it.
  • Sounds of Speech is an invaluable app for anyone learning phonemes. It animates the different mouth movements required to make each sound.
  • British Council Phonemic Chart allows you to see and listen to all of the sounds of English.
  • Lang 8 is a language learning platform where native speakers correct what you write.
  • Common Errors in English Usage explains common errors and how to avoid making them.
  • Grammarcheck allows you to input your writing and identify common grammar errors.
  • Quizlet is an app that allows you to make flashcards and quizzes. Perfect for reviewing vocabulary. There are also flashcards and quizzes made by other people on the IELTS test.
  • Anki is another great site for vocabulary. It is a spaced repetition flashcard program, that will make remembering vocabulary easy.
  • Memrise helps you learn words and phrases by using a spaced repetition program similar to Anki. All the materials are contributed by other users, so there are lots of materials ready to go.
  • Wordreference is a powerful translation tool.
  • Wordsteps helps you remember 20 new words a day.
  • Hinative is a website that allows you to ask a native speaker to explain a word, expression or the whole sentence to you. Useful for slang, neologisms and informal language as well as specific terms.
  • Learning with texts allows you to paste in a section of text, note which words within that text you do and don’t know, quickly look up the words you don’t, and create flashcards from them.
  • Dreamreader is a great resource for students who want to practice their reading skills. New articles are uploaded daily; with quizzes to test your knowledge.
  • The English Learner Movie Guides provide movie and character summaries, as well as words and phrases learners might not know from well known movies.