April 01 2016, 23:46

List of useful links for those who are self-studying English.

I completely stole this post from Dirty.ru, and they from Pikabu, it seemed very useful to me too.

Listening:

— http://www.learnathome.ru/ — free listening to video lessons, movie clips, +many paid opportunities.

— http://ororo.tv/ — online English movies in original, with Russian and English subtitles.

— http://show–english.com/ — a free analog of the previous site.

— http://www.hamatata.com/ for watching series and movies in English with subtitles

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio — radio for beginners

http://begin–english.ru/radio — a few more radios

http://tunein.com/ — and more

— BBC radio

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish — a huge amount of podcasts and more.

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/ — podcasts, games.

http://teacherluke.co.uk/ — podcasts

http://playphrase.me you enter a phrase or word in quotes and the service plays scenes from series and movies with that phrase.

http://lyricstraining.com — A site where you can learn foreign languages using the “karaoke” method.

http://spotlightenglish.com/

https://popcorntime.io for watching videos with or without subtitles.

http://puzzle–english.com — the main content on the site is only for paid subscription, but there is also free material

https://www.youtube.com/user/krutopridumal — English as if by notes

http://www.englishcentral.com/

http://ESLPOD.COM — podcasts

https://www.lingq.com — a paid site. But there are also free opportunities. Podcasts with texts to them.

http://www.todayifoundout.com/ — stories about some entertaining fact for 5-10 minutes

http://itotd.com/ — the same, but slightly less serious

http://www.npr.org/ — American radio; transcripts are posted for many broadcasts during the day after the broadcast

http://ekranka.tv/video/otel–folti–tauers — an old British series

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/elementary–podcast… podcasts for beginners on a wide range of topics

https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3849–easy–listening — A large collection of podcasts on various topics

http://www.homeenglish.ru/Lessonsaudio.htm — audio lessons from Voice of America English USA, there are as many as 104 pieces in mp3 format + text printouts.

http://www.talkenglish.com/ A large selection of recorded phrases, dialogues. And a lot of grammar too.

podcasts for beginners on a wide range of topics

http://www.china232.com/ — Fun English Lessons

https://www.seminolestate.edu/adult–ed/els/listening–and–dic… — three levels of listening courses.

https://librivox.org/ — audiobooks in English

Reading:

http://wordmemo.ru/ — The main feature of the site — words marked as “unknown” in the text are not translated immediately, but first, the context in which you encountered them before is shown.

http://wordsfromtext.com/ — besides existing dictionaries, you can add your texts, from which the service will fish out all the words used in the text, and scatter them in the form of a dictionary.

http://getparalleltranslations.com reader + ability to add new words to the dictionary

http://www.newsinlevels.com/ — News with levels for those learning English

http://www.readtheory.org/ — for developing reading skills

http://americanliterature.com

http://www.short–stories.co.uk

http://english–e–books.net

http://do–you–speak.ru/ Here there are many short stories in English, some of which are equipped with audio.

Grammar:

http://english03.ru/soderzhanie_murphy Full analysis of the famous textbook Essential Grammar in Use (“red Murphy”)

http://www.alleng.me/english/engl.htm, there is more than just grammar

http://www.ego4u.com — grammar and tests

http://englsecrets.ru/grammatika/prefiks–self.html