Tuesday 29 March 2011

Project Gutenberg


This is good news for literature lovers. Take this as an extra brilliant material where you could improve your English proficiency. We can download, distribute, share and most of all, it is FREE!!! There are over 33,000 free ebooks to read on your PC, iPad, Kindle, Sony Reader, iPhone and many more.

by Liyana Rosli

BBC Learning English


We can gain a lot of knowledge by just clicking on the link. We can improve our grammar, learn new vocabulary, learn pronunciation tips and many more. This link should be one of your favourite bookmarks.


by Liyana Rosli

Forvo


As a number of our respondent has difficulties when speaking English o foreigner because of the accent, Forvo is one of the solution. Forvo is a multilingual user generated pronunciation dictionary. We can listen to any words spoken in vast range of language. We can always check the English words spoken by British, American or Arabian people according to their accents.

by Liyana Rosli

Monday 28 March 2011

The Speech Accent Service

http://accent.gmu.edu

The Speech Accent Service provides speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. This site is relevant for those who wish to listen and compare the accents of different English speakers.This site surely will helps its users to master the English language orally as it also provides a phonetic transcription. Phonetic transcription do helps in pronouncing English words in a correct way.

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Photo Peach

http://photopeach.com

The idea of this site is to help it users to tell stories using photos. Users can simply create a slideshow in just a few minutes.It also offers a background music and caption to make the slideshow stories become more interesting. Basically, this can be a new way of learning of English as teachers may use it as a teaching tool. Teachers can collect their students slideshows and give comments.

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FunnelBrain

http://www.funnelbrain.com

Basically, this site compiled a collection of academic questions and answers. This site is a user driven site just as Wikipedia which means anyone can do the editing, contributing and organizing informations. Students can make a full use of this site as one of their new approach of learning. They may have a collaboration with their classmates as this site offered a feature called study team. Discussion regarding a few topics can be done in this study team. A new way of learning in this site such as creating and answering quizzes and creating flashcards would help in learning process.

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English Cafe

http://www.englishcafe.com

This site is an English learning community that involves both experts and learners. The new learner may choose their own level, whether they want to start as a beginner, intermediate or advanced learner while the teachers can find their students too.The free lessons offered in this site consists of photos,videos, documents, audios and files. The writing of the learners can be corrected by the teachers. The other feature of this site is the users have their own personal library to store their study materials. One more important feature of English Cafe is there is a toolbox available to correct the pronunciation and helps in translation. Have a look to this site !

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