Randall's ESL Cyber Listening
Lab Chat live on-line with ESL students from around
the world and take listening quizzes with RealAudio and RealVideo
on everything from animal sounds to American slang to academic
lectures.
Guide
to Grammar and Writing Improve your grammar and
writing skills on the word, sentence, or paragraph level.
Learn about essays and research papers, take interactive
grammar quizzes, and get e-mailed answers to your individual
language questions.
Pronunciation
Web Sources A varied list of websites to help you improve
your pronunciation with audio and video files, written tests, fun-filled tongue
twisters, and commercially available materials.
Dictionary.com
Search dictionaries, grammar guides, and writing style books
for answers to your English language questions, or ask your question directly to Dr. Dictionary.
You can also subscribe to the Word of the Day mailing list.
Quotes
of the Day Updated daily with several quotes from
famous authors. You can also sign up for quotes to be e-mailed
to you daily. If that doesn't satisfy your appetite,
access their entire collection, either randomly or by author.
British-American
English Glossary A list of British-American English
equivalents in everyday speech.
American
Life and
American
Culture A brief guide to customs and lifestyles in
the U.S. for international students.
Holidays
on the Net Everything
from background information to greeting cards, and holidays
of different religions and occasions in the U.S. Elaborate graphics
may be slow in downloading.
Volterre's
Keypals and Penpals
Are
you interested in writing ESL students from countries all over
the world? You can first read background information on keypal
and penpal projects, or go straight to sites that set you up
with your new pal from the country of your choice.
Dave's
ESL Cafe One of the best-known all-purpose ESL web
sites around. You can find people to chat with, materials to
buy, idioms and phrasal verbs to learn, quizzes to take, and
much, much more.
The
Tower of English Ride the "elevator" to visit different
floors of the "tower" where you can explore Internet projects,
investigate study abroad programs, publish your opinion on debate
topics, learn tricky tongue twisters, play picture guessing
games, and laugh at the cartoon of the day.
English
Learner Lessons, tests,
and quizzes on reading, vocabulary, and grammar organized according
to level of difficulty. Join the e-mail listserve or chat live
with ESL students around the world about their experiences learning
English. Have new tests regularly e-mailed to you for free,
with the answers coming a few days later.
The ESL Center A page full of links to various sites to help students of ESL improve all their skills. Also included are links to sites on American culture and travel. Follow "The ESLoop" to move quickly to a number of other related web sites.