Link Exchange

The sites listed below were kind enough to provide a link to PhraseMix. Please thank them by clicking the links below and checking out their sites.

  • film-english.com - This is a cool site for teachers with  lesson plans based on short video clips.
  • freelanguage.org - A collection of reviews of language-learning sites, software, and podcasts.
  • inglestotal.com - An English-learning site for Spanish speakers.
  • adirferreira.com.br - A blog with English lessons in Portuguese.
  • easykaiwa.seesaa.net - A site in Japanese by Misako, who has kindly provided dozens of Japanese translations of PhraseMix lessons.
  • englishclub.com - A big English-learning site with a huge community of learners from around the world.
  • The English Learners' Blog - This is a blog for English learners, written in English.

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This is a list of sites, tools, podcasts, and blogs for learning English. These sites are all written in English and have free content for English learners.


 

Saturday
Apr242010

[Blog] AllJapaneseAllTheTime (AJATT)

alljapaneseallthetime.com

AJATT is a crazy site, with really long and funny posts about learning Japanese. The advice on the site is useful for learning any language, though. The author has great advice on staying motivated for language learning.

 

Saturday
Apr242010

[Blog] Antimoon.com / Ask Antimoon

antimoon.com

Antimoon is a blog that suggests a certain method for learning English, which involves lots of input. Ask Antimoon is a site where you can get expert answers on questions about pronunciation, grammar, or other language issues.

Sunday
Nov072010

[Blog] English Harmony

englishharmony.com

English Harmony is a blog about how to gain fluency in English. It has good advice on ways to practice English and how to motivate yourself.

 

Saturday
Apr242010

[Blog] Readable Blog

readableblog.com

Readable blog is a blog with articles written in easy-to-understand English.

Saturday
Apr242010

[Tool] Anki

ichi2.net/anki

Anki is an SRS tool that allows you to create flash cards and review them at just the right time, before you forget. It's very flexible and can be used to study any kind of material.

Saturday
Feb262011

[Tool] Brainscape

brain-scape.com

Brainscape is a tool for studying flashcards on the Internet or on a mobile phone. They have some English vocabulary sets that you can study. Those are OK, but the real value is that you can create and study your own flashcard sets. 

Brainscape.com 

Sunday
Jun272010

[Tool] COCA Corpus

americancorpus.org

I almost didn't want to write about this one, since it's kind of my "secret weapon" - a site where you can type in a word or phrase and find hundreds of example sentences from fiction, TV news shows, magazines, and other sources. The search functions allow you to find a lot of interesting information.

Saturday
Apr242010

[Tool] Lang-8

lang-8.com

Lang-8 is a site where you can write a journal entry in English and have it corrected by other English-speaking users. It can be difficult to find people to correct your writing at first, but once you ask a few people to add you as a friend it gets a lot easier.

 

Saturday
Apr242010

[Tool] LingQ

lingq.com

Lingq is a language learning site that provides a variety of tools, including podcasts, live chat, and a tool that keeps track of vocabulary that you're learning. There's a free version and paid services.

Sunday
May152011

[Tool] Netspeak

netspeak.org

Netspeak is a kind of phrase search engine. You can find out what words are most commonly used together by doing a search. (For example, type in "most commonly ?" to see how popular "most commonly used" is as a phrase.)

 

Saturday
Apr242010

[Tool] Phrases.net

phrases.net

Phrases.net is a big dictionary of English phrases. There are tons of phrases on the site. Unfortunately, the definitions are written in a technical style that can be hard to understand.

 

Saturday
Apr242010

[Tool] RhinoSpike

rhinospike.com

RhinoSpike is a site where you can upload an English text and an English-speaking user will upload a recording of themselves reading it out loud. It's a good tool for practicing listening and reading together at the same time.

PhraseMix has used RhinoSpike to record some of the Language Terms explanations on this site.

 

Saturday
May012010

[Tool] VocabSushi

vocabsushi.com

VocabSushi teaches English vocabulary words. It has example sentences for each word that are taken from online news articles. The words are difficult, but good for advanced English learners.

 

Saturday
May012010

[Tool] Word Frequency List

wordfrequency.info

This site provides a word frequency list for English, which shows which words are used most often. It also shows what other words most commonly appear with each item. You can use the free list, or buy a PDF of the complete list.

Saturday
Feb262011

[Tool] Wordnik

wordnik.com

Wordnik is like a dictionary, but it includes extra information that dictionaries don't, like example sentences, phrases that the word is a part of, Twitter results for each word, and statistics on the word's popularity.

wordnik.com 

Saturday
Apr242010

[Video] dotSUB

dotsub.com

dotSUB is a site with lots of subtitled videos. The videos are on a variety of topics, but they're also in a variety of languages, so you'll have to search through them to find the ones that are in English.

Saturday
Feb262011

[Video] engVid

engvid.com

engVid is a site with hundreds of free video lessons. Lessons are taught by native English-speaking teachers who stand in front of a whiteboard and write out notes while they teach.

 

Saturday
Apr242010

[Video] TEDtalks

ted.com

TED is a series of conferences where experts share "big" ideas on a variety of topics. There are videos of each talk on this site with subtitles available under the video.

 

Saturday
Apr242010

[Video] YouTube

www.youtube.com

You've certainly heard of YouTube before, but did you know that there are a lot of YouTube videos with English captions? There's a PhraseMix post on how to search for YouTube videos with captions.