Listening for Learners
- Elllo: http://www.elllo.org/
- ESLFast: www.eslfast.com
- ESL lab: http://www.esl-lab.com/index.htm
- British Council YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/BritishCouncilLE
- British Council: http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/listen-and-watch
- BBC World Service Learning English: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/
- BBC Learning English: http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish
- VOA: http://learningenglish.voanews.com/
- Spotlight Radio: http://spotlightenglish.com/
- Public Radio International: http://www.pri.org/
- Stories: http://esl-bits.net/
- NHK Gogako: https://www2.nhk.or.jp/gogaku/english/
- NHK World: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/
- VoiceTube: http://www.voicetube.com
- NewsinLevels: http://www.newsinlevels.com
- Movie trailers: http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/eslvideo/videos3.html
News Video
- BBC (UK) NEWS: http://www.bbc.co.uk
- CBC (US) NEWS: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/
- NPR (US): http://www.npr.org/
- PRI (US): http://www.pri.org/
- NHK (Japan): https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/
- Video: http://www.wimp.com/
- The Ecologist: http://www.theecologist.org/tv_and_radio/tv/
- National Geographic: http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/travel
- Scientific American: http://www.scientificamerican.com/video/
- Non-specialist Lectures
- Big Think: http://bigthink.com/topics
- TED: http://www.ted.com/talks
- CGPGrey: https://www.youtube.com/user/CGPGrey (very fast, funny)
- Crash Course: https://www.youtube.com/user/crashcourse
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Specialist lectures, supported or MOOC
- Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/
- EDX: https://www.edx.org/course-list
- Yale open courses: http://oyc.yale.edu/
- MIT open courses: http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
- Udacity: https://www.udacity.com/
- Academic Earth: http://academicearth.org/ (list of MOOCs, not a MOOC)
- Khan Academy: https://www.khanacademy.org/ (Math, Science, Economics, Art, History, Civics)
Lecture-only university courses.
- iTunes U: : https://itunes.apple.com/jp/app/itunes-u/id490217893?mt=8
- YouTube Ed: http://www.youtube.com/education
- Unsupported lectures are hard. Try reading some first:
- Warwick Database: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/research/collect/base/lecturetranscripts/ah
Movies
Watch a movie, but don’t use subtitles if you want to practice listening. That’s reading. If you get lost, instead of using subtitles:
- Download the transcript (not the script): http://www.script-o-rama.com/trans.shtml (Movie Transcripts)
- Read ahead.
- Watch without reading.
- If you get confused stop, read, understand, read ahead a little, then
- Start watching again.
Songs
- Google “Lyrics for SONG NAME”, read and understand.
- THEN listen, many times.