Day 6 Online Resources

Day #6  Online Resoureces
You won't have time to check them all of these, but try to find resources that most interest you. If a site doesn't seem interesting (or doesn't load quickly enough), don't waste time on it. so You can add sites of interest to your Del.icio.us Bookmarks and save documents, pages, audio files, and presentations to your 'Materials Archive'.

Listening Activities
Podcasts  (regularly produce audio recordings)
Readings & Resources

Downloadable Documents from Scribd.com & Lulu.com

Teaching Materials

Tech Training
EFL Teacher Blogs
   Assorted blogs from EFL teachers around the world.  Potentail source for more learning materials and building global connnections.


From a recent post at: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/20_ways_to_learn_a_language_online.php
Language Lessons

  • Mango Languages: 12 different online language courses presented in conversational format with prices starting at free.
  • Vocabulix: Free vocab building lessons in Spanish, German and English, as well as other languages, with a baked in social network.
  • Pod Network: Spanishpod - Frenchpod - Chinesepod - Free online lessons in three languages.
  • BBC Languages: A host of language learning tools and self-contained online courses from the BBC.
  • eLanguageSchool.net: Free lessons for learning 10 different languages online.
  • Linkua: An online marketplace of real-life language tutors. There's nothing like learning a language directly from a native speaker.
  • LiveMocha: This site combines lessons, with an online community allowing you to practice speaking with native speakers, which dovetails nicely into the next set of sites.
Practice Speaking
  • SharedTalk: A language exchange covering 113 languages from the makers of the popular RosettaStone language learning software.
  • xLingo: A language exchange that lets users create and share flashcards with each other.
  • Palabea: Reviews of language learning software in addition to an online language exchange.
  • iTalki: A language exchange with a Yahoo! Answers-style QnA site, and a wiki-based public knowledge base for 10 different languages.
  • Huitalk: Forums, articles, vocabulary lists, and a language exchange using Skype.
  • Interpals: A large language exchange from a popular penpal social network.
  • Mixxer: A free language exchange using Skype built by Dickinson College.
  • TT4You: A free global language exchange site.
  • Language Buddy: A free language exchange with 115 supported languages.
  • Convesation Exchange: Text and voice chat, email, or face-to-face meetings can bet set up via Language Buddy to improve your conversational skills.
  • Lingozone: Build vocab skills by playing game of Word Ladder and Hangman, while making friends with whom to practice speaking.
  • Language Exchange Network: Think Craigslist for language learning; this site has super-simple language exchange classified listings.
  • MyLanguageExchange: One of the oldest online language exchanges (this site was a Yahoo! Internet Life pick in 2001), it claims over 1 million members speaking 115 different languages.