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…
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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…
Speak English like yourself and develop confidence with Hadar
Thanks to guest contributor Emmanuel Orozco Castellanos for this review of the pronunciation YouTube channel “Accent’s Way English with Hadar” This week, we’ll put a spotlight on one of the many English teachers on Youtube.…
Using English for Specific Academic Purposes
Andy Gillett’s UEFAP site, Using English for Academic Purposes, supported by BALEAP (the British Association of Lecturers in EAP) offers a deep set of resources for academic communication in all skill areas. The best segments…
Phrases to get things done in English: Imber’s Verbal Stratagems
This simple and easy-to-use Verbal Stratagems website offers a robust collection of phrases for specific purposes, such as agreeing, checking for understanding, expressing gratitude, or making a suggestion. These phrases have been collected and maintained…
MICASE Corpus of spoken English on campus
MICASE is a searchable collection or “corpus” of the transcripts of real-life spoken language on the University of Michigan campus. Most of the audio files are available for free download too. MICASE represents language as…