Month: April 2016
April 03 2016, 00:54
This weekend we’re heading to Shenandoah National Park. Encountered about sixty deer in various places. Spent today two hours with Liza searching for bears in the deep forest with waterfalls, half of which time was spent conquering a 1000-foot mountain. No luck. Tomorrow – new horizons.



April 02 2016, 12:18
Flea Market

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.
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://www.short–stories.co.uk
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
http://www.correctenglish.ru/exercises/elementary/degrees–of…
http://www.study.ru/support/handbook/
http://www.tolearnenglish.com/
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