Find resources below to practice listening, speaking, and pronunciation.
General
English Addicts
English Listening Lesson Library Online
EngVid
ESL Gold
ESL Video
Intelligence Squared
Listening Resources
Many Things | Listening/Pronunciation
Randal’s Cafe
Listening activities
Podcasts
CNN
English Pronunciation Podcast
MSNBC
New York Times
NPR
Voice of America
Videos
Animal Planet
CNN
CNN Student News
Discovery Channel
MSNBC
National Geographic
New York Times
TED-Ed Lessons Worth Sharing
Voice of America
Speaking activities
ESL Robots
Choose a robot and answer his/her questions by typing them in the box. You can also ask him/her questions. You can click on different topics to see and listen to many conversations on different topics and then you can practice them with a robot.
Text-to-Speech
Type in a word, phrase, or a sentence, choose the language (and dialect), and hear it pronounced.
Pronunciation activities
English Pronunciation Podcast—A great podcast that helps you improve your American English pronunciation. You can both listen to it and read the transcript at the same time. This podcast helps you tell a difference between single sounds in English that may sound very similar.
ESL Gold—Pronunciation activities.
Independent Study Lab—Pronunciation activities divided into different levels.
Many Things—Quizzes, listen and repeat activities.
Phonetics: The Sounds of English and Spanish, the University of Iowa—First download Flash 7 plug-in for the software to work. Then, choose American English at the top of the page. Now, learn all about American English sounds: how they sound, what to do with your mouth, how they look like on paper, and practice, practice, practice.