Summary

From beginner to advanced levels, EnglishClass101.com is an excellent, all-around online environment for learning ESL. The Pod101 platform, method and technology provide the necessary tools to get you immersed in the English language and achieve the goals you desire and/or require.

Since EnglishClass101.com is web-based, you can access your personal ESL Learning Center from anywhere, and it's really easy to download the podcasts and put them on your mp3 player (iPod, Zune, etc) or mobile phone to take them with you for practice and learning on the go.

One of the most important things when learning a language is good content - and EnglishClass101.com has this, and a steady flow of it. This constant flow of fresh content regards cultural aspects of ESL you will want to know, interesting tidbits about navigating in English-speaking societies (whether on vacation or living abroad), practical information about getting by and much more.

Your ESL Learning Center brings together audio podcast lessons, lesson notes and checklists, transcripts, PDFs, video lessons, vocabulary training with flashcards and quizzes plus a English dictionary, grammar bank, a verb reference and plenty more.

And if you enjoy asking questions and learning from and helping other learners, a forum is available for all users.

It's simple to try it for free and upgrade if it works for you.

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At EnglishClass101.com, our goal is to make learning the English language easy and fun, while also incorporating culture and current issues into our lessons. We believe that the more you speak, the quicker you learn, so we have designed our program to get you speaking right away. Situational English is heavily stressed, and our team role plays various situations to demonstrate the proper form of English to use when speaking with friends, customers, executives, and so-on. Knowing the proper form to use separates good speakers from great speakers.

EnglishClass101.com was developed with the hope of showing the world how fun and easy learning English can be. Here at EnglishClass101.com, we truly believe that learning can be fun, while at the same time convenient. We know how busy you are and that each day brings unexpected surprises. That is exactly why we bring the lessons to you and let you decide when they start.

Our innovative, fun, and easy to use language learning system is designed to get you speaking and interacting from the very first lesson. Learn English at your own convenience and pace with short, effective, fun daily lessons and a comprehensive, state-of-the-art Learning Center that provides you with the tools to take your English to the next level! Our interactive learning system consists of free daily audio podcast lessons, accompanying PDF materials, a Premium Learning Center, and a vibrant user community.

Our Method

EnglishClass101.com offers a unique learning experience that cannot be found in conventional classrooms. In addition to offering lessons that can be completed on your own time, we approve all of the content we release through a government certified English teacher. Here are just a few of the revolutionary advantages of our method:

Exposure to native speakers and many different kinds of voices and speaking styles…

EnglishClass101.com aims to have you speaking English after just one lesson! Our lessons focus on pronunciation and listening comprehension, so that you can start practicing what you learn from our professional teachers. Inside the PDF you will find the necessary tools for reading comprehension, and thorough explanations of phrases and key grammar points, in addition to segments on cultural insight. To address speaking practice, we have state-of-the-art software to allow you to record your own voice so you can compare your pronunciation to our teachers and continue to refine your speaking skills.

When all the aspects of EnglishClass101.com are put together, this program provides students of English with ultimate self-study learning course. In addition, we often provide conversations between three people to more closely simulate real-life situations.

Fresh, up-to-date content...

Many English teachers who live overseas have been out of the country for a long period of time and can be “out of the loop” on current words, culture, etc. This is another major gap that we fill. Lessons are carefully crafted to include current events, words, celebrities, and so-on. This is very dynamic content.

Borderless education on-demand...

We also fill a definite demand in remote locations. Our lessons provide you with a mobile classroom, as we bring you English on Demand. English lessons wherever you may be.

EnglishClass101.com offers our listeners a unique learning experience that delivers cutting-edge, dynamic content to be accessed at your convenience. With the inclusion of our lesson notes and Learning Center, we offer a full solution that provides the material, guidance, exercises, and testing to really make the knowledge your own. And it doesn’t even stop there - our vibrant and extremely helpful community provide each other not only quick answers to questions, but also give each other a sense of encouragement and motivation that is often lacking.

We focus on English, and English only...

Just English! All we do is English. EnglishClass101.com is not a generic package language learning course, such as some of the other big name language learning programs out there. Many other programs “scale” their solutions across several languages, simply recycling the same material over and over - the same pictures, the same conversations, just in a different language. But each language is unique, and at EnglishClass101.com we pride ourselves on developing a system that’s only about the English language and English culture!

One stop studying...

Have you ever found yourself lost on the information highway? Sometimes it’s like trying to drink from a fire hose! Hundreds of bookmarks, all with varying levels of quality and credibility. You finally find a great site, but it only updates once a year! EnglishClass101.com offers users one stop studying. The learning center has been carefully designed to provide you with the resources you will need to take your English to the next level.

Visit EnglishClass101.com.

Summary

From beginner to advanced levels, EnglishPod101.com is an excellent, all-around online environment for learning English. The Pod101 platform, method and technology provide the necessary tools to get you immersed in the English language and achieve the goals you desire and/or require.

Since EnglishPod101.com is web-based, you can access your personal English Learning Center from anywhere, and it's really easy to download the podcasts and put them on your mp3 player (iPod, Zune, etc) or mobile phone to take them with you for practice and learning on the go.

One of the most important things when learning a language is good content - and EnglishPod101.com has this, and a steady flow of it. This constant flow of fresh content regards cultural aspects of English you will want to know, interesting tidbits about navigating in English society (whether on vacation or living abroad), practical information about getting by and much more.

Your English Learning Center brings together audio podcast lessons, lesson notes and checklists, transcripts, PDFs, video lessons, vocabulary training with flashcards and quizzes plus a English dictionary, grammar bank, a verb reference and plenty more.

And if you enjoy asking questions and learning from and helping other learners, a forum is available for all users.

It's simple to try it for free and upgrade if it works for you.

From Website

At EnglishPod101.com, our goal is to make learning the English language easy and fun, while also incorporating culture and current issues into our lessons. We believe that the more you speak, the quicker you learn, so we have designed our program to get you speaking right away. Situational English is heavily stressed, and our team role plays various situations to demonstrate the proper form of English to use when speaking with friends, customers, executives, and so-on. Knowing the proper form to use separates good speakers from great speakers.

EnglishPod101.com was developed with the hope of showing the world how fun and easy learning English can be. Here at EnglishPod101.com, we truly believe that learning can be fun, while at the same time convenient. We know how busy you are and that each day brings unexpected surprises. That is exactly why we bring the lessons to you and let you decide when they start.

Our innovative, fun, and easy to use language learning system is designed to get you speaking and interacting from the very first lesson. Learn English at your own convenience and pace with short, effective, fun daily lessons and a comprehensive, state-of-the-art Learning Center that provides you with the tools to take your English to the next level! Our interactive learning system consists of free daily audio podcast lessons, accompanying PDF materials, a Premium Learning Center, and a vibrant user community.

Our Method

EnglishPod101.com offers a unique learning experience that cannot be found in conventional classrooms. In addition to offering lessons that can be completed on your own time, we approve all of the content we release through a government certified English teacher. Here are just a few of the revolutionary advantages of our method:

Exposure to native speakers and many different kinds of voices and speaking styles…

EnglishPod101.com aims to have you speaking English after just one lesson! Our lessons focus on pronunciation and listening comprehension, so that you can start practicing what you learn from our professional teachers. Inside the PDF you will find the necessary tools for reading comprehension, and thorough explanations of phrases and key grammar points, in addition to segments on cultural insight. To address speaking practice, we have state-of-the-art software to allow you to record your own voice so you can compare your pronunciation to our teachers and continue to refine your speaking skills.

When all the aspects of EnglishPod101.com are put together, this program provides students of English with ultimate self-study learning course. In addition, we often provide conversations between three people to more closely simulate real-life situations.

Fresh, up-to-date content...

Many English teachers who live overseas have been out of the country for a long period of time and can be “out of the loop” on current words, culture, etc. This is another major gap that we fill. Lessons are carefully crafted to include current events, words, celebrities, and so-on. This is very dynamic content.

Borderless education on-demand...

We also fill a definite demand in remote locations. Our lessons provide you with a mobile classroom, as we bring you English on Demand. English lessons wherever you may be.

EnglishPod101.com offers our listeners a unique learning experience that delivers cutting-edge, dynamic content to be accessed at your convenience. With the inclusion of our lesson notes and Learning Center, we offer a full solution that provides the material, guidance, exercises, and testing to really make the knowledge your own. And it doesn’t even stop there - our vibrant and extremely helpful community provide each other not only quick answers to questions, but also give each other a sense of encouragement and motivation that is often lacking.

We focus on English, and English only...

Just English! All we do is English. EnglishPod101.com is not a generic package language learning course, such as some of the other big name language learning programs out there. Many other programs “scale” their solutions across several languages, simply recycling the same material over and over - the same pictures, the same conversations, just in a different language. But each language is unique, and at EnglishPod101.com we pride ourselves on developing a system that’s only about the English language and English culture!

One stop studying...

Have you ever found yourself lost on the information highway? Sometimes it’s like trying to drink from a fire hose! Hundreds of bookmarks, all with varying levels of quality and credibility. You finally find a great site, but it only updates once a year! EnglishPod101.com offers users one stop studying. The learning center has been carefully designed to provide you with the resources you will need to take your English to the next level.

Visit EnglishPod101.com.

Summary

The BBC is such an amazing resource for learning languages online for free that we've done a 6-minute video showing how you can effectively use this resource to learn at least the basics of 36+ languages.

BBC offers materials for the following languages: Albanian, Basque, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Mandarin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, Flemish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian (FYROM), Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian

Enjoy and please leave comments to help us focus our efforts!

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Helpful Links for this Screencast

http://freelanguage.org/learn/bbc
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/chinese
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/english
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/german
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/greek
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/italian
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/portuguese
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/other
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/other/quickfix

Summary

This is our first humble effort to disseminate much of the good info found on this website via screencast videos that make it easy to get a picture of learning languages online for free while kicking back, watching and soaking it up rather than reading through loads of material.

With this video we offer a 10-minute intro to useful sites for learning languages online for free. The web tour covers essential resources for vocabulary, grammar, dictionaries, translation, verb conjugation, language exchange and more.

We have started a channel on YouTube for these screencasts: http://www.youtube.com/user/freelanguageorg - you can help us a lot by rating and commenting on these videos on YouTube

Please let us know what you would like to see in future videos, too. We have a series planned and will be releasing them here frequently - your input will be valued and appreciated!

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Links in this Screencast

http://quizlet.com
http://www.transparent.com/wotd
http://lingro.com
http://www.gutenberg.org
http://wikibooks.org
http://www.busuu.com
http://www.babbel.com
http://www.myhappyplanet.com
http://palabea.net
http://www.reverso.com
http://www.wordreference.com
http://www.google.com/translate
http://www.verbix.com
http://freelanguage.org/the-big-list

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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Visit Blabbinit.com

Summary

This is by far one of the most popular of the available podcasts for learning English. The content is interesting, the updates are frequent and the site has a feel of being very alive and active.

An excellent overall resource.

Bravo Lori!

From Website

First, you fin Welcome to Better at English! This site is devoted to helping non-native speakers improve their English. For all you non-native speakers out there, on this site you’ll find short lessons, listening activities, tips, and advice that can help you improve your English in as little as two minutes per day. All free! (The site is supported by the modest income generated by the ads and by your generous donations.)

My name is Lori, and I’m the owner, maintainer, principal writer, and fez-sporting Grand Poobah of Better at English. In non-virtual life I work as a corporate language instructor, editor, and translator in southern Sweden. But I’m not Swedish — I emigrated from southern California as an adult. If it means anything to you, I hold an RSA CELTA, a BS in Education and an MA in English, for what those are worth (add me to the list of people who think that the school of LIFE is where real learning takes place).

Why do I run this site? Mainly because I think that just about everything to do with learning, psychology, languages, and language learning is pretty neato stuff, and this site gives me the chance to do something productive with my interest. But it’s also grown out of my years of experience with frustration with teaching English as a foreign language to adults. Most of my students want to practice and improve their conversational English. Unfortunately, most mass-market English teaching materials SUCK when it comes to providing examples of authentic, informal, everyday conversations; the dialogs are contrived, stilted and boring, and reflect the wishful thinking of textbook writers rather than authentic conversational usage. I aim to provide authentic conversations with transcripts and language notes for learners (and teachers) of English who are looking for a (hopefully) fun alternative to conventional ELT materials. My main focus is on idioms, slang, phrasal verbs and colloquial English, but I delve into other vocabulary too.

I hope you’ll enjoy your visit to Better at English and that you’ll find the site useful.

Visit BetteratEnglish.com

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