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Hi all,

I realized that my favorite links' numbers are getting increased and my main page became full of addresses.At last I thought that it would be a good idea if I gather them on one blog.To see them together will gain great time to me when studying.

 I recommend you too:)))) Have a good workshop,

Here are some of them,

1) English Club

a FREE social network for english learners and teachers provides good materials and activities, you are captured by Pronunciation section if you want to improve your speaking english, Power of Seven    while increasing english knowledge, making the best combine of seven (Josef Essberger)

2) Pronunciation American English podcast

 Allows you to learn how to pronunce American English , all lessons can be listened continuously, or, followed by one by

3) Englishpronunciationpod  focusing reduced form to speak really americans

4) VOA  bunches together Special reading news or The classroom activities that fascinated me; News are both in the text and in the audio file which has arrangemented to ESL

5) English Online  to those who want to leverage listening skill via listening stories & exercises and the intensive pronunciation exercises (EC award-winning)

6) BBC has many different ways to education "News", "Drama" and  Pronunciation"

    6a) BBC drama site,   "gain improvement from listening to drama, emotional atmosphere make it easy." here is another choosing from BBC for iplayer

7) Ted Talks Short inspirational talks to improve your life (and your listening skills) (Tara's suggestion)

8) Good educational VIDEOS, you can probably hear different accent but overall it gives a good approaching to acquire pronunciation milestones

8a) beginning pronunciation is a good presentation by jennifer esl cafe and

8b) Rachel shows the native speaker mouth shape while the words to be imitated

9) Many various links ENGLISHSpeaking1.pdf was suggested from teacher Bev who is a member of EC.;

10) If you are interested in Phonemic symbols that link is nice but getting more over pronunciation matters please visit to my other blog about pronunciation practice, don't forget to share your secrets there.

Thank you all for showing interest,

with all sincerity,

-Selma-

Hi all again,

I would like to determine an issue, "learn" depends on your level, timing is so important, neither before nor after, for example if you are at intermediate level, you'd better to start watching the english subtitled movies and support by the speaking exercises.

I know how difficult to be a self-learner as someone who taught herself :)

So, it's a great pleasure to assist the learners.

I hope you'll find my real experiences useful and it was honored to be a guide,

- in my learning process, I added the following sites which was more suitable for my situation.

1- Filmpo, learn real English with substitled movies

2- Ororo, TV shows and movies with english subtitled.

3- FluentU, learn vocabulary with the movies (find it in the EClub's pages - EC award winning )

4- Pronunciation practice " EnglishCentral "

5- Oxford i-speaker, conversation practice