Lingualnet: Movies and Video Clips

Learning English Through Movies! Sounds like a plan. On a website where movies goes from clips of "Lost in Translation" to amateur productions or even clips on home and garden, the learning experience can be quite broad.

The site has 8 categories: Drama, Animation, Cine-Poetry, Home Made, Documentary, Travel, Commercials, Home and Garden. And each clip has a script, so you can check if you don't understand, and you can toggle the subtitles on and off. Some videos also have a quiz you can take.

How about it?

Lingualnet

Levels: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Real English: Easy videos

Real videos for beginners. Here you'll find lots of very basic videos for beginners. There are also some more advanced videos for intermediate students.

Most of the videos are based on situations, like introductions, getting information, etc. And many of them also focus on a grammar or vocabulary topic: possessive adjectives or colors.

What's great is that each video has a guide that includes exercises, and you can watch the videos in several languages (French, Japanese, Corean, Chinese), or with subtitles.


Real English

Aulafacil: Simple Listening Texts

At the beginning you just need some nice, simple things to listen to. And that's what you can find at aulafacil.com .

"Aula fácil" actually means easy classroom in English. The texts and dialogs are quite easy in fact, and all of them are recorded by different speakers. There are two different sets:


Readings 1

Readings 2


Enjoy!

Levels: Beginner, low-Intermediate

VOA News - Listen to news reports

Stay up to date by listening to news reports. VOA News (Voice of America) is an American News Agency that offers news reports in text and audio versions. It has news in 45 different languages and it also has a section for learners of English.

It's called the "Special English" section. The news reports are a little easier to understand and the texts are read very slowly. That makes them a lot easier to follow. There are an enormous amount of topics and special collections of reports like education, living in the US, everyday terms, et.

If you prefer normal news reports you also have videos along with the transcript of the video on the VOA website.

Have a look and enjoy!

VOA News

VOA News - Learning English