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Online Dictionary
(that allows you to hear any given word)
Longman's Online Dictionary (find click here button to use dictionary function)ESL Listening Exercises
- Randall's ESL Lab (recommended)
- English Language Listening Lab Online
- Free listening classes
- Learning Oral English Online, online book, Rongchang Li
- ESLsound.com
- California Distance Learning Project listening activities
- Accent Listening Gallery
- E. L. Easton's Listen to English page
- Listening Lounge
- E-views - live interviews
- English Language Listening on the Net (A. D. Walker)
- Okanagan University College's English Pronunciation/Listening site
- Virtual University
- LiteracyNet simplified news stories to read, watch, or listen to
- Takako's Great Adventure (Okanagan Univ. College) (Shockwave req'd)
- English Listening room, manythings.org
- Glennys Hanson's Free Listening Exercises Online for teachers and students
Links to other places
- ITESLJ's ESL Listening links
- Ruth Vilmi's Listening and Pronunciation Help page
- Ohio U. Listening links
- Arlyn Freed's Listening Resources page; good reviews of other sites
Public Sources
- Environmental News Network
- Historic Audio Archives
- Radio Canada International
- Find a radio station
- ubuweb
Speeches and lectures
- History Channel's Famous Speeches
- NPR's Great American Speeches
- Gary Price's Speech and Transcript Center
- Lectures on macroeconomics, Univ. of Iowa
- Taking Notes, College of Saint Benedict/St. John's Univ. Academic Advising
- Listening and Notetaking
Listening Strategies
- Dartmouth's Academic Skills videos
- Irene Thompson's Listening Strategies
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maintained byThomas Leverett, CESL, SIUC