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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

http://www.correctenglish.ru/exercises/elementary/degrees–of…

http://www.study.ru/support/handbook/

http://www.tolearnenglish.com/

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March 31 2016, 23:47

In our region, there’s been a lot of talk about the nuclear summit in Washington attended by 50 heads of state, which Russia declined to participate in.

According to Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, Moscow refused to participate in the summit due to the unconstructive stance of the American side.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/mar/30/russian-snub-mars-obamas-nuclear-summit-amid-isis-/?page=2

March 31 2016, 17:43

In the States, there’s nothing like Yandex.Music. [UPDATE: Spotify was finally found, my Android was in Russian mode until today] I’m talking about a FREE service. There are plenty of paid ones. The only place where you can listen to music for free, almost any kind, is Youtube. But there, you end up streaming video as well, even though it’s not needed at all. For a mobile phone, it’s totally unnecessary, not only because of data usage but also battery drain. So if anyone happens to know a decent service similar to Yandex.Music that works in the states, please share. P.S. VKontakte works, but a) it’s slow b) it’s very inconvenient to listen to albums and compilations there, as there is hardly any grouping by artists and albums.

Most TV channels online broadcast only to subscribers. The Oscars were broadcast by ABC in just 10 US cities. When you visit almost any TV channel’s website, in order to watch a live broadcast, you need to enter a login and password from your provider, which informs the channel that you have a subscription to the broadcast.

March 29 2016, 11:49

“Deadly Sins. Extended Edition

On the official website of the Nikolsky Church of the Lipetsk diocese, an expanded list of sins (a total of 473 items) has been published for confession preparation. Lots of interesting entries, for example, for women:

— Sinned hoping “God will forgive”;

— Disgusted to kiss icons,

— Tempted in a dream and passionately remembered it;

— Grumbled about bad roads;

— Angrily criticized the authorities at rallies.

— Spent time in worldly games and entertainments: checkers, backgammon, bingo, cards, chess, rolling pins, ryoohi, Rubik’s cube, and others;

I do not know what ryoohi are, but I really felt the urge to play.

Overall, this whole list slightly resembles those sort of achievements, some of which are tempting to unlock.

UPD. The list has now been removed from the site, but GOOGLE CACHE remembers everything.”

http://goo.gl/7Od2ir

Original link, before it was hidden: http://pravera.ru/index/spisok_grekhov_dlja_ispovedi_podgotovka_v_pravoslavii/0-2381 (all gone)

Here’s the entire list: http://m.pikabu.ru/story/spisok_pravoslavnyikh_grekhov_zhenskiy_vsego_lish_475_shtuki_mnogobukov_dlinnopost_630318