Listening and Pronounciation practice

[Seanmen]

Hi there,

First of all I would like to say thank you for providing this amazing website to English learners in the world. It is really great.

I am just wondering if we can have some listening materials such as reading articles, talk interviews as well as some other pronounciation practices. In this way, the site is not only providing reading and writing materials but also offering listening and speaking resources.

I believe a lot of people would be interested in listening to and speaking English too.

Any ideas?

[Torsten]

Hi Seanmen,

Many thanks for your feedback, we are working on the audio part and until we publish more materials you might want to make do with these recordings:
http://www.english-test.net/audio/cockney_accent_ed_corp.mp3
http://www.english-test.net/audio/connecticut_estuary_accent.mp3

Also, you probably know that you can listen to most of the correct answers on our site. Here is an example:
http://www.english-test.net/esl/learn/english/grammar/ei001/incompl-elem-001.mp3

In addition, you can listen to radio channels like Voice of America or the BBC and watch CNN or Skype.

Let me know what you think,
Regards
Torsten
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[Seanmen]

Hi Torsten,

Thank you very much for your information and advice. I will definitely go to these sites and have a look and actually I am doing this now.

What I am trying to say is, do you think it will be better if we have our own listening and speaking materials on this website (set up a particular section for that), so that people can also talk about oral English in here as well.

This is just some personal ideas, I am not asking anyone to do anything.

BTW, how to watch Skype?(or you mean use Skype to talk to people?)

[Torsten]

Hi Seanmen,

Thanks a lot for your feedback, we are working on more audio materials and you are right, listening to English on a regular basis is a vital activity. As for Skype, that was a typo, I actually meant Sky....

Talk to you soon,
Torsten
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[paris]

Hey
I love your idea. I know that a lot of student have a problem in those skill.

[Seanmen]

hey, thanks.

Are you Paris Hilton?

just kidding.

[Guest]

Hi Seanmen.
your idea is good.
I have learnt English when I was 9 years old. But my English is bad, special listening and speaking. Now, I'm trying to improve my English. Everyday, I listen voice of BBC or www.spotlightradio.net Now I can words but I don't know their mean. So, I'm finding the way to resolve that problem.
I wish you and this website can help me to improve my English. Your suggestion can send to my email: whiteorchid1984@gmail.com.
Thank you so much!

[Seanmen]

Hi there,

I have browsed the sites you gave, and I think they are all excellent resources for learning English.

I have added you in my mail list. I would love to talk to you about everything on studying English.

[Diverhank]

It's interesting to listen to www.spotlightradio.net. I think it will help students a great deal. Keep in mind that the speaking rate is only about half or 3/4 of the normal reading rate.

[Seanmen]

Yes! It's great.

Is there any way people can talk to each other to practice speaking skills?

[Hopeless_Girl]

hi,
I'm listening www.spotlightradio.net now. I feel like in the moment at my exam before applying to univeristy. Strange, but thanks a lot for your input
As far as my listening and pronouncing practice is concerned I prefer CNN channel, but they were talking about Paris Hilton all day. Oh, come on is it so exciting? What do you think??

Apart from listening I also recomend British Council, but I'm not certain in how many countries it is working, so the best thing to do is to write this name and appropriate country in the broswer. There are many articles, encyclopaedias and dictionaries after you log in.

[Kssandip]

Hi,
What you told is exactly what I am thinking, need more talking and listening. I don't know if I can get any native speaker to talk with me, so that I can improve my pronounciation, accent and fluency. Hope we will get some help soon!!

[Perlamaria]

I would like to know if there's any way that instead of an english accent the listening materials could be done with an american accent

[Torsten]

Hi Perl,

All our TOEIC based listening exercises are recorded by native speakers from North America: http://www.english-test.net/toeic/listening/

Best regards,
Torsten
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