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The speakers are from all over the world, so you will hear a wide range of accents. There are audios for learners at B2 English level (upper intermediate) and C1 English level (advanced). You will improve your listening comprehension and develop your vocabulary. Each recording has a transcript and interactive exercises to help you understand ...
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Discover your current English level by taking our free online test. In this section you'll find our audio series. The more English you listen to, the more confident you'll become, and your level of comprehension and English speaking will also improve. There are exercises to help you before you start listening and after you've listened, to make ...
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1. English Listening Step by Step
Price: Free (with in-app purchases) Available on: Android Level: All levels This is a complete app that includes over 1,000 audio clips, each of them with a transcript and a listening comprehension quiz. The audios are divided into different levels, and you can choose the variety of English you want to learn.
2. Listen English Daily Practice
Price:Free Available on: Android Level: All levels Divided into five categories (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, British and American English), this app is fantastic if you want a daily dose of English listening. It includes listening comprehension exercises, vocabulary lists and subtitles, among other cool features.
3. English Listening and Speaking
Price: Free (with in-app purchases) Available on: Android Level: All levels English Listening and Speaking is an app where you can find hundreds of audios divided by level and topic. What makes this app unique is that you can practice your listening skills both online and offline. It also includes transcripts, exercises, games and pronunciation practice.
7. ELLLO
Price: Free Level: All levels The English Listening Lesson Library Online (ELLLO) is a wonderful place where everything revolves around practicing your English listening comprehension. There are over 3,000 audio clips divided into seven big categories. Among this huge collection, you’ll find audio lessons with native speakers, short audios with foreign learners speaking English, audio-based grammar lessons and idiom lessons. The site has level codesso you can easily find the videos for your l...
8. esl-lounge.com
Price: Free Level: All levels esl-lounge.com includes hundreds of listening comprehension exercises divided into five categories: Beginner, Pre-Intermediate, Intermediate, Advanced and Business English. Once you choose your category, you’ll see a list of audio lessons. They each come with a brief description, the grammar used and the type of English used in the audio. For each lesson, you can choose to listen while reading the transcript or listen and take a quiz.
9. Listen A Minute
Price:Free Level: Upper-beginner to intermediate Listen A Minute is a simple website that includes hundreds of short listening clips. Each audio is followed by a lot of activities to help you master the topic. All the recordings are in British English.
19. 6-Minute English
Price: Free Available on: Website | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Level: Intermediate If you want to practice listening to the British accent while you learn about hundreds of interesting topics like food, stress, new technologies, mermaids, space or fashion, this app is for you. All you need to do is go to the website (or wherever your get your podcasts) and set aside six minutes of your time.
20. The English We Speak
Price: Free Available on: Website | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Level: Intermediate BBC’s The English We Speak is a section inside the BBC’s Learn English website. The section tries to make English interesting for teenagers and young people through audio clips of under three minutes. This site is perfect for you if you want to learn real British slang.
21. Podcastsinenglish.com
Price: Free Available on: Website Level: All levels Podcastsinenglish.com is a collection of hundreds of downloadable podcasts created for learners of ESL (English as a Second Language) and EFL (English as a Foreign Language) students. Each episode is a natural conversation between two native speakers about a random topic. The conversation usually lasts about three minutes.
36. KQED Radio
Price: Free Level: Upper-intermediate to advanced Based in San Francisco, KQED Radio was created to “inform, inspire and involve,” which is actually their motto. It’s a public radio station that focuses mainly on local news, although they also cover national and international news. KQED Radio’s podcasts are high-quality and very well-produced. I especially recommend MindShift.
37. WAMU
Price: Free Level: Upper-intermediate to advanced WAMU is based in Washington and focuses mainly on politics and education news. You can listen to their live radio 24/7. You can check out the complete list of all their shows or give any of their fantastic podcastsa try.
38. BBC Sounds
Price: Free Level: Intermediate to advanced True to its name, BBC Sounds is a fantastic collection of sounds of every kind, mainly in British English. From music, news and sports to science, relaxation and documentaries, everything is covered in their hundreds of programs.
41. Netflix
Price: Starts at $6.99/month Available on: Website | iOS | Android Level: All levels No matter what type of show you prefer, there’s a good chance you can find it on this popular streaming platform. The great thing about Netflix is you can change the audio and subtitle settings. That means you have the option to change the language as it’s spoken on the show and the language it’s being translated in the captions. Beginners can watch their favorite show in English with subtitles in their nativ...
42. FluentU
Price:Free trial available (starts at $19.99 per month) Available on: Website | iOS | Android Level: All levels FluentU is a language learning platform that makes use of authentic video content (content that native speakers actually watch) with interactive subtitles. That means that whenever you don’t understand a word you hear or see onscreen, you can click on the subtitles to get information like a word’s definition, example sentences, other videos where that word appears and more. Once you...
43. Hulu
Price: 30-day free trial (starts at $7.99/month) Available on: Website | iOS Level: All levels Hulu is another streaming platform that lets you watch some of the most popular movies and TV showstoday. The only downside is that Hulu is only available in the United Statesand Japan. If you’re able to access it, it can be a great supplement to the likes of Netflix.
48. EnglishClass101
Price: Free Level: All levels EnglishClass101 is one of the best YouTube channels to learn English on the platform. Their English comprehension practice videosare divided into levels from absolute beginner to advanced, complete with lots of listening exercises.
49. Learn English American
Price:Free Level: Beginner to upper-intermediate Learn English American is a YouTube channel that focuses on teaching listening and speaking skills to American English learners. The videos are dividedaccording to whether they focus on everyday topics, easy conversations and dialogues. The great thing about this is that you can read what is being said on the screen, so the videos are easy to follow.
50. English7Levels
Price:Free Level: All levels English7Levels allows you to practice English listening through stories, conversations and even a fun mini-series. The videos specifically devoted to listening comprehensionincrease in difficulty as you level up. The first level, or “Level 0,” is missing from their YouTube channel, but you can access it on their website.
53. Voice of America
Price: Free Level: All levels Voice of America has been devoted to teaching English to students around the world since 1959. They gather national and international news and transform them into lessons you can watch or listen to and read at the same time. The lessons are divided into beginning, intermediate and advanced levels.
54. ESL Fast
Price: Free Level: Beginner Practicing your listening skills with ESL Fast is super easy. Pick any of the 25 offered topics and then choose from over 1,500 conversations. The audios are short and simple, so every learner with a basic knowledge of English will be able to enjoy them.
55. “110 Real Life English Conversations”
Price:$14.99 ($9.99 for Kindle) Level:Upper beginner to intermediate
56. LibriVox
Price: Free (iOS app costs $2.99) Available on: Website | iOS | Android Level: Upper-intermediate to advanced LibriVox makes books in the public domain available in the form of free audiobooks. The audiobook catalog is huge, but you can explore it by searching for an author, book title, genre or subject. The free audiobooks also come with transcripts.
57. Lit2Go
Price: Free Level: Intermediate to advanced Lit2Go is a collection of poems and stories you can listen to and read for free. It’s similar to LibriVox where you can download all the content free of charge. However, you may need written permission in some cases. The whole site is amazing, but I especially love the “Mathematics” collection.
58. Audiobooks
Price: Free (with in-app purchases) Available on: iOS Level: Upper-intermediate to advanced If you enjoy listening to full audiobooks, you’ll love this app. The selection of books is fantastic, as there are thousands of them! But that’s not the only thing Audiobooks has to offer. The app also allows you to download your favorite audiobooks so you can listen to them offline. If you have no time to listen to a full story, you can always visit the Podcasts section.
Our online English classes feature lots of useful learning materials and activities to help you listen and respond with confidence in a safe and inclusive learning environment. Practise listening to your classmates in live group classes, get listening support from a personal tutor in one-to-one lessons or practise by yourself at your own speed ...
ELLLO stands for English Listening Lesson Library Online and features natural English lessons that come with quizzes, vocabulary training, and free printable worksheets. ESL students and teachers can access over 2,000 free lessons that feature World English with speakers from over 100 countries.
Learn American English with English language lessons from Voice of America. VOA Learning English helps you learn English with vocabulary, listening and comprehension lessons through daily news and ...
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C1 Advanced Speaking Exam – Listening Lesson (C1) In this free lesson from Oxford Online English, you will listen to examples of two candidates doing the four parts of the C1 Advanced speaking exam, and consider what to practise for the different areas of the marking scheme.
