These links actually cover more than a week. But, I’ve been watching other English-learning websites for what I think are the best resources and I’ve found some things you might want to have a look at.
If you’re using English for business–or just want some more idioms–How To Learn English has two great pages:
The Ballpark, and
The [...]
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Normally, when you get a listening ‘exercise’ from Bite Sized English, I try to provide you with the text of what I’ve said. Today, I’m going to try something different. Here, you can hear me speaking about a new hobby [...]
This entry is part of the Apartment Hunting series. You can find explanations of the boldface words there.
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When you look—or search—for an apartment, we [...]
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I don’t think I’m a very fashionable person. In fact, I know I’m not a [...]
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Hi. My name is Toby and I am the writer and teacher behind Bite-Sized-English.com. Today, I want to tell you a little bit about myself. [...]
It’s a little bit late, but now that we know how popular Barack’s speeches were, I didn’t think you should have to buy a book to hear them. Here’s the official White House version of the new President’s speech. And, as always, I’ve included the text of the speech if you’d like to [...]
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To practice ‘pure’ English–English for English speakers–you can’t do much better than the news. Here, I’ve found an interesting story from Reuters titled “Japan learns English from Obama speech textbook” and, as listening practice, I’ve read [...]
