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

• 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.