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MP3 library of colloquial American English. Vocabulary and grammar explanations translated for the benefit of Japanese learners of the English language.

ListeningEnglish.com has more than 500 excellent articles. The content of the articles is informative and interesting. Many articles are about topics such as the people, history, and culture of English-speaking countries. When you start to practise English listening, you first need to test your level, and then practise at that level. Soon you can advance to the next level. ListeningEnglish.com allows you to improve your English listening skills quickly and systematically.

Welcome to 1-language.com's ESL Listening Center. Our aim is simple, to build the most comprehensive set of listening materials on the Internet, and let you use them for free. Take a look at what we've done so far, and please bear in mind this is just a start, we will be making a lot more realistic, conversational scripts and probably redoing current ones as well. Thanks for stopping by, we really appreciate it, and good luck with your English!

This lively hour-long public radio show, broadcast across North American and hosted by Grant Barrett and Martha Barnette, takes calls from listeners who have questions about all aspects of language: grammar, punctuation, usage, word origins, dialects, foreign languages, regional expressions, and more. Plus, each show features a word puzzle and a language quiz. You can listen via radio, MP3, podcast, or directly on the web site.

Site dedicated to Public Communication of all kinds and includes a Speech Bank, Movie Speeches, Audio Figures of Speech, The Top 100 American Political Speeches of the 20th Century, The Rhetoric of 9-11 and links to Communication Associations and Journals

Links to listening sites on the internet with reviews.

The gateway to BBC Radio. Listen online to local, national and worldwide radio stations.

California Language Labs offers ESL (English as a Second Language) audio and video tapes in more than two dozen languages, U.S. Citizenship preparation videos and video phrasebooks for travelers. Secure online ordering!

Old Time Radio Plays from the Golden Age of Radio Drama originally broadcast on CBC Radio

Free EFL / ESL online listening exercises: Fairy Stories dictations

A program (ComAudio) and materials to improve your understanding of spoken English. On-line exercises. Practise sayings, proverbs and tenses. Workshops for English teachers.

Learn English by listening to English speakers from all over the world. Over 400 listening activities to choose from.

Listen to the changing voice of England. Extracts from the Survey of English Dialects and the Millennium Memory Bank document how the ways we spoke and lived in the 20th century.

A useful resource for English learners enabling them to locate the whereabouts of English language radio stations throughout the world.

This is a site where people can study English using movie commercials.

Listening Quiz Repository at esl.about.com covering a number of areas.

Provides English as a Second Language lessons based on short, lively documentary videos. Themes include: Art, Culture, Community, and Sports. Lessons available Online, and on CD-ROM.

eViews is for intermediate to advanced English students looking for listening practice. Typically for someone at the level of the Cambridge first certificate and looking for English listening practice. eViews has been designed for students of English as a Second Language to hear authentic English speakers in 'normal' conversations. Our interviews are recorded at a natural speed, are not scripted and are spoken by 'real' people, not actors.

This site is dedicated to helping ESL/EFL learners develop conversational English skills.

Online pronunciation guides for accent correction with instant native speaker sounds for 10 languages including 7 Englishes.

Listen to a variety of English idioms, modern business English, teen talk, travel talk, or listen for ways to "think" in English.

It's an archive of MP3 files devoted to the differents accents which are used by both native and non-native speakers.

Learning English through movies

Search seven years of NPR audio archives, including access to transcripts.

Listen to the latest news stories here.