📚 English Learning Resources

Here are some of teacher Ila's recommended English language resources that are free to use. Feel free to add your own suggestions in the Discussion forum here, so that the list can continue to grow. 

Listening & Reading:

• Breaking News English website: Read & listen to news at different levels. https://breakingnewsenglish.com/

• Youglish website: Search for words present in the subtitles of YouTube videos. https://youglish.com/

• English Listening Lesson Library Online: Read & listen to English speakers of different nationalities. https://elllo.org/index.htm 

• Language reactor Chrome extension: Watch YouTube/ Netflix with multilingual subtitles + check and save new vocabulary and phrases into your own word lists https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/language-reactor/hoombieeljmmljlkjmnheibnpciblicm?hl=en 

• English learning podcasts on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/search/show/Learn%20English 

Vocabulary:

• Create your own vocab lists and flashcards, e.g. with: https://gizmo.ai or https://quizlet.com

• Clozemaster: learn with 4000+ sentences covering vocabulary in frequency order via cloze-style quizzes with audio. Users can select answers via multiple choice or type. Progress is tracked, and you can review sentences again using its spaced repetition system(SRS). https://www.clozemaster.com/ 

Dictionaries and reference materials:

• Glosbe: bilingual dictionary with example sentences. https://glosbe.com/ 

• Reverso: bilingual dictionary with example sentences. https://www.reverso.net/text-translation 

• Vocabulary.com: English dictionary with example sentences and word families. https://www.vocabulary.com/

• Word Reference: definitions, translations and discussions of terms. https://forum.wordreference.com/

• English Stack Exchange: discussions of more complex terms and language usage. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions

• Theasurus.com: for synonyms. https://www.thesaurus.com/ 

Grammar:

• English Grammar in Use by Raymond Murphy https://archive.org/details/english-grammar-in-use-5th-edition-by-raymond-murphy 

Speaking 

• Tandem: language exchange app with voice chat rooms.https://tandem.net/ 

• Cambridge Speak & Improve: speech analysis service. https://speakandimprove.com/
  

Writing

• Cambridge Write & Improve: writing analysis service. https://writeandimprove.com/