Listening Training website?

[fellipe88]

Hi. This is my first post here. I'm from Brazil and I'm looking to improve my speaking and listening skills.
I've just found a nice website lyricstraining (don't know if I can post the link here) that helps with listening and understanding musics.

My question is if anyone here knows if there's a similar website but with 'general' conversation. So instead of listening to music I'd like to listen to actual people talking.

Thanks!
Fellipe

[tom3m]

NOT A TEACHER

Good evening and welcome to the forums. Rather than trying to find a website, I can recommend you watching TV in English i.e. English TV channels - BBC for example.

[Esredux]

Hi Fellipe,

You might also find the following sites helpful:

TED.com
intelligencesquared.org
randall's esl cyber listening lab

You can easily find them yourself. The first two offer just authentic listening with optional scripts, the last one tests comprehension as well.

[englishlisteningworld]

Hi,
I can suggest that you find some listening practice that gives you the scripts. Listening to pure conversation without a script can be a major challenge! I am trying now in Spanish and without scripts, I am just guessing at what they are saying.
Another feature that is handy is having a target for your listening. Just listening to 'anything' is overwhelming. try searching for 'targetted english listening' or a similar search term.

-Les

[Tdol]

There are listening sites here: Listening - ESL Web Directory - UsingEnglish.com

You might like this one: http://www.elllo.org/- it has a lot of listening activities designed for learners.

How about this one? http://www.english-listening-world.com/

[emsr2d2]

Most of the talks on TED are video + subtitles. They're very helpful and I used them a lot with my students in Spain.