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Blabbinit.com Blabbinit Learn English with Podcasts, Comics, Karaoke, Blogs, Videos and Chat

Summary

Blabbinit offers numerous useful resources for intermediate and above learners to practice and improve their English skills. Among these resources are podcasts, videos, karaoke, blogs and a chat room.

This website was brought to my attention by someone who contacted me through Free Language. Here is what she said about her experience using Blabbinit:

I would like to suggest a great resource. I found a helpful site online that really teaches English in a fun way. I enjoy listening to their podcasts because they are not boring. In fact it is the best that I have ever listened to. This site is called Blabbinit. They have videos to help with pronunciation and also even a Karaoke section to practice English through singing. There is a chatroom and a great community section where you can write anything in the forum and the members can make their own blogs. I look around a lot for good websites to help me practice and this is the best I have found yet.

In order to create the online karaoke experience, Blabbinit uses music videos from YouTube and then provides the lyrics for users to sing along.

The site also uses comic strips to explain certain concepts to English learners. View a sample comic.

As this article goes to press, Blabbinit is still in its infancy. It seems to have gone live right around the beginning of 2008. The site was created with Drupal, the same software that Free Language uses. :)

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Posted Mon, 2008-02-25 12:10

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Business English Pod Podcast

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Business English Pod, as the name suggests, is a great podcast for learning English as it is used in the business world. It is professional and knowledgeable production.

Their website is clean and well-ordered and the podcasts are filled with quality content, and are released weekly.

This is a great solution for intermediate to advanced learners of the English language to gain more exposure to ways of using the English language in the career world.

The podcasts are free, and there is also premium content that users can subscribe to for lots more information, such as full transcripts of the podcasts and extra practice materials.

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"Business English Pod delivers free weekly MP3 podcasts for intermediate and advanced business English learners. Each podcast is focused on a particular skill (meetings, presentations, telephoning etc.) and language function (clarifying, disagreeing, questioning etc.).

Our Business English Podcasts feature professionally recorded dialogs with detailed explanations of the target language and further examples of useful phrases. All podcasts are accompanied by a set of Study Notes, including a full transcript, extra vocabulary and review exercises, available to our Premium Members.

Business English Pod is brought to you by an expert team of language trainers with over 30 years hands-on Business English training experience with some of the worlds leading companies. Our team is able to draw on professional experience in aerospace, consulting, engineering, financial services, medical and telecommunications to make our podcasts relevant and applicable to the needs of our audience."

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Posted Sun, 2007-02-18 16:02

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BBC Learning English

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What can I say, it's the BBC! This is a very good resource for English learners at beginner to intermediate levels.

There is quite a lot of variety of content at the BBC Learning English site. Games, quizzes, vocabulary lists taken from the news, grammar info, proficiency tests, audio, video, lesson plans, music, picture, stories... you name it.

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The site is intended to help you improve your learning of the English language. Throughout the site you will find short courses, quizzes, grammar, vocabulary, audio and video that will help you to improve your English.

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