English learning requires a lot of practice, patience and resources.
The Internet provides a great way and tool to learn and improve your
English. You can find the sites to learn vocabulary, grammar, listening
skill, writing and maybe make friends all around the world. Learn English
is to understand its sentence construction, phrases, or in general its
grammar. But it's not enough. You need to have a lot of vocabularies
in diver topics such as sport, culture, politics, economics etc. Listening
and speaking are also very important. Try to spell correctly the new
words at the first time.
English Baby
A great site that uses fun movies and music to teach you REAL English.
English Baby is one of the very best site that offers the listening
new fresh lesson everyday with the American accent, excerpt from
movies to give you the real English conversation and daily vocabulary.
You can also make friends all around the world. They are from China,
Turkey, Russia etc. They also offer the chat room where you can chat
in real time with a lot of people. Don't be afraid. Try to express the
best you can do.
www.EnglishBaby.com
English
Club
If you search on the Internet with a keyword "Learning
English" you may find this site easily because it is one of the most
famous sites offering English learning resources. Started some year
ago, English Club helps you learn English or teach English as a second
language. Access to all pages is free. You'll find everything from lessons
for students to jobs for teachers, including interactive pages such
as forums, games, quizzes, chat, help and penpals.
www.englishclub.com
English Grammar
Quizzes
This project of The Internet TESL Journal has contributions
by many teachers. To learn means also to pass the test. By taking these
quizzes you may know what you forgot and what you need to improve. You
can find exercises from easy to difficult levels with varieties of topics
and subject ranging from preposition, crosswords, phrasal verbs, conversation,
vocabulary etc. Activities for ESL Students has over 1,000 activities
to help you study English as a Second Language.
AskOxford
You probably know the famous Oxford Dictionary. This is
the online version with a lot of advantage compare to the hardcover
book thanks to its richness of resource such as writing tips, grammar
tips, ask the expert, the quotes of the day. You can also find
the Children Dictionary from this site and other world of English dictionaries
such as Australian English , New Zealand English, American English and
Canadian English.
Using English
UsingEnglish.com provides a large collection of English as a Second
Language (ESL) tools & resources for students, teachers, learners and
academics. Browse the grammar glossary and references of irregular verbs,
phrasal verbs and idioms, ESL forums, articles, teacher handouts and
printable, and find useful links and information on English. Topics
cover the spectrum of ESL, EFL, ESOL, and EAP subject areas.
Technical
Writing Guide
Remember your first letter or your first paper written
in English. How difficult they are. Because writing requires a lot and
a lot of practices, mostly when you are an English learner. If you are
technical student who need to write a technical paper or essay, this
site may be a good resource for you. It teaches you in very details
of how to write a number, use of unit such as Hz, cm, volt etc. that
you may think easy but in fact they must follow a certain rule in English.
Common Errors in English Thanks to Paul Brains of putting this
book online for free. With this site you can find almost every words
that ESL learners confuse easily. It's classed by the ABC. Each word
goes with the definition and the list of the mistakes that people usually
make.
OWL: Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling Brought to you
by the Purdue University Online Writing Lab. In this site, they offer
you handouts and exercises on grammar, spelling, and punctuation. they
also have PowerPoint presentations related to grammar, and they have
an entire section of handouts and resources for English as a Second
Language learners that might also prove useful.
Learn English from British Council This is a great site
from British Council. The site offers many possibilities such as songs
for listening, article for reading, fun stuff for playing. You learn
English through daily article in various topics such as sport,
culture, arts, story, poem. A great resource to practice reading and
listening skills from elementary to advanced level, with interactive
games, multimedia exercises
Learn English Kids from British Council This is the kids
version. You can let your kids be familiar with English from very small
and they will learn very fast. A Great resource for kids to learn English
- songs, games, stories, painting activities
BBC Learning English BBC is a great website to be updated with
what happening in the world. They also provide comprehensive materials
for intermediate to advanced ESL learners from the BBC World Service.
You can learn vocabulary from the news, take the quizzes, listening
to the story and music. Great!
Chat with a robot in
English.
Yes - you can chat online with a robot. It's a software program that
can understand what you are typing and chat with you. Hum, you now don't
need to be shy. It's a really intelligent robot that can chat with you
like a real native speaker
Answers.com
You may not know that Answers.com is the number 4 in the search industry.
You can search for definitions, pronunciation, and even translation
of any English words.
Special English from Voice of America. It's great to have
a website that offers the news and the audio of the article. You can
read the news in a simple English and listen to the audio. So you can
learn not only the writing text but the pronunciation.
Encarta
World English Dictionary. With this dictionary you can hear
the pronunciation of each word you look for.
Esl.about.com
About.com is a huge site with a lot of resources and articles for every
subject. They offer also a section for learning English as Second Language.
Appropriate for beginners to the advanced students, you can find tips
on grammars, reading, writing and listening skills. The business English
section is also interesting. Try it out.
AudioEnglish.Net
With over 150,000 pages and 2,500 audio files, this site provides a
huge English conversation audio to you.
