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Helpful
links to pages for improving English via ESL sites:
Vocabulary
building sites:
English
dialects and accents:
- Canadian,
Eh! [www.answers.com/topic/eh]
- CBC Canadian Experience: Talking
Canadian [www.cbc.ca/canadianexperience/talkingcanadian/index.html]
Not much at this page other than a description of
a wonderful program that aired on Canadtian TV
covering the Canadian English dialect. The program
airs as a rerun, now and then, on a CBC network
and is available from the CBC Shop on DVD.
- Canadian Glossary [www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hgscc/glossary.html]
Small list of some Canadian words.
- Yahoo Canada Online Dictionary List
[ca.dir.yahoo.com/Reference/Dictionaries]
Pointers to sites for Canadian online
dictionaries and translation tools.
- World
Wide Words [www.worldwidewords.org]
Interesting lists and definitions of British
words.
Radio
websites for learning or listening to English:
- Voice Of America Special English
[www.voanews.com/specialenglish]
They speak slowly enough for a beginner to
understand.
- BBC China Learning English [www.bbc.co.uk/china/learningenglish]
English learning specifically directed at native
Chinese speakers.
- BBC Learning English on World
Service Radio [www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio]
BBC counterpart to VOA's Special English.
- Roger Lyon on BBC Radio Merseyside
in Liverpool, England [www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/content/articles/2006/06/29/radiomerseyside_pres_rogerlyon_feature.shtml]
Lyon's program includes guests and listeners
that have a variety of British accents influenced
by Liverpool's proximity to Ireland and Scotland.
Good listening.
- Radio
Australia English Service Lessons [www.radioaustralia.net.au/learnenglish]
The Australian accent is
present in these lessons, but not as bad as
most. Good for people from China, Indonesia,
Cambodia and Viet Nam.
- StudioClassroom [www.studioclassroom.com/lt/lt_radio.php]
hosts a radio series called "Let's Talk in
English"
- China Daily Audio News [www.chinadaily.cn/language_tips/cdaudio/audio_cd.html]
Daily audio news stories in slower paced
English with text scripts.
- Classics Channel --- Songbirds [www.rthk.org.hk/classicschannel/songbirds.htm]
Hong Kong's Radio 4 has been broadcasting a
unique and very popular English Language teaching
program for local students. The drama follows a
group of characters who experience the joys and
difficulties of being a teenager and young adults.
Most of the characters acted by local students,
teachers and lecturers.
- World
Radio
Network [www.wrn.org] A
rebroadcaster of fine national radio stations from
around the world. For decades, countries have
broadcast their national radio services on
Shortwave Radio. WRN combines these feeds in
blocks as 24-hour radio services. Current and in
English. You can receive their feeds MP3 as
Shoutcasts.
- China Radio International has
an English Radio Service that gets exported to
various countries. "Beyond Beijing" is good
listening:
Slang
& Novelty sites:
Translation
tools:
- Babelfish
[babelfish.yahoo.com/tr]
Online multi-language translation website
- Alfalink
Electronic Translators [www.alfalink.co.id]
Maker of good multi-language electronic
translators that talk, as well as display words
and phrases in each language.
- Google
Translate [translate.google.com/]
Culture
sites:
Enter
ENGLISHBABY and LEHERE sites from my pages:
Other
links:
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that have linked us:
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