City University of New York (CUNY)’s Baruch College offers a suite of pronunciation “Tools to Go,” featuring animations of how sounds are made inside the mouth and lots of interactive pronunciation activities for both single…
Moshi AI chat
Moshi, an audio-first chatbot released in 2024, enables conversations up to 5 minutes with a chatbot. At the time of this review, the tool appears to only offer one accent and one voice, with a…
Using AI in your job search: A Language Learning Resource for Job Seekers
This review was written with assistance from Claude Haiku Using AI in your job search: Resources and prompts is a publicly available Google Doc designed to help advanced English language learners improve their linguistic skills…
Pi.ai for human-like conversation
Please note: this overview of Pi.ai was written with assistance from Microsoft Copilot Introduction Pi.ai is an innovative platform designed to provide a realistic and engaging conversational experience with an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot. As an…
Practice pronunciation watching Youtube videos in YouGlish
This review is by guest contributor Emmanuel Orozco Castellanos. Learning English on Youtube may not seem like a new idea. There already exists a virtually infinite amount of videos to learn English or any other…
English accents worldwide
The IDEA website contains samples of speaking of hundreds of speakers–first reading one of two texts, and then just speaking, unscripted, about themselves. This is a great way to hear a bunch of voices speaking…
Extraordinary academic English learning website
Monash University in Australia hosts an academic English language self-study website, Learn HQ, with vast breadth and depth in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and grammar. There are quick self-assessments to help you decide which resources to…
Preview a Reading with VocabGrabber
VocabGrabber, a tool from Thinkmap’s Visual Thesaurus, allows users to paste in up to 100 pages of text, and then see a visual display of the most frequent and most relevant vocabulary. If you have…
All the language learning you can do with NPR
“NPR” stands for “National Public Radio,” a not-for-profit radio network that emphasizes high quality, in-depth, long-form news and conversation. Most radio shows are available as podcast episodes, and there is some content only available via…
Vocabulary.com personalized game and dictionary
The terrific website Vocabulary.com has been out for several years now, and it just keeps getting better. This is a product of Thinkmap, the group that created Visual Thesaurus.