Online Resources

  1.       Conversation exchange with native speakers:
2.       Free online courses offered by UK and US universities:
Do an online course related to your field of work or studies and improve your English at the same time!
3.       TED: Online presentations on a variety of topics, with interactive scripts ( but if you want to train your ear don´t read the script until you have listened a few times)
4.       Phonetics through music:
Interactive exercises based on songs which will help you learn and practice the phonetic symbols and improve your pronunciation.
5.       Recommended online dictionaries: 
www.wordreference.com (the best online English-Spanish dictionary; includes a forum)
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
www.macmillandictionary.com (includes pronunciation, real examples, videos and a blog)
www.thefreedictionary.com (includes idioms, Wikipedia links, financial and medical terms)
6.       Online press in English:
7.   BBC Learning English: (especially the podcasts in 6-minute English)
Watch the song video and complete the lyrics at the same time- interactive lyrics. The website waits for you to fill in the gaps in the lyrics and you get a score based on how many gaps you do in how much time.  
 9.   BBC radio online

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