Tasta'm: Resources for learning English
Learning and especially the acquisition of a language is a long process that requires a real and continuous practice as possible. The possibilities of the Internet not only as a repository of knowledge but also in communication with other people make it an ideal channel to access many resources and spaces for learning or improving our level of English: speech and exercise services listening exercises, notes, tests ... Here are some of them organized by sections with the idea that you can choose what you need in every situation.
As always, we invite you to share with others what we know.
If you have little time: pills daily / weekly
"The Daily Vitamin" proposal is a daily subscription will be sent automatically to your mail telling you the meaning of a word with examples and an audio version. It is ideal if you have little time and want to practice minimally English daily.
http://www.ziggurat.es/es/lecciones_ingles/index.asp
"Ejerciciodeingles.com" is a proposal we will mail weekly exercises organized into 3 levels: basic, medium and higher, and to choose the proposal that best fits our knowledge.
http://www.ejerciciodeingles.com/newsletter/
Dictionaries online
Google Language Tools is a great service not only allows you to translate texts or websites that we provide in many languages, but also translated pages results of our investigations.
# http://translate.google.es/
Howjsay dictionary is a speech in English. If you do not know how to pronounce a word only have to write and read the web.
http://www.howjsay.com/
In this section we have included also Wordreference.com Thefreedictionnary.com and offering translation and dictionary tools, but given the amount of resources that are there, we thought it more convenient to put them in the next section.
Portals
Mansioningles is a place that offers many resources including a course in 3 levels, different exercises for thematic or area you want to reinforce our learning, the ability to download books in English and practice of software that we install in our PCs . In Spanish.
http://www.mansioningles.com
Wordreference.com is not just a dictionary, you can find on this site uses idiomatic, translators and even participate in forums to share your concerns.
http://www.wordreference.com
The Free Dictionnary is much more than a dictionary, translator, is a portal with games, forums, articles and many activities to practice the language.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/
English4us offers resources such as interesting chats, games, information on official exams, and links to audio and video podcast to practice our understanding of spoken English.
http://english4us.es
BBC Learning English. Who better than the BBC, the British public television, to give us all kinds of resources to practice English?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/
Englishclub is another website full of resources, although a little confused by the amount of information and shows how it is organized. It is only in English.
http://www.englishclub.com/
Learning English is a British Council site with all kinds of resources and the ability to talk with others in the virtual world of Second Life.
http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/
Saberingles and Linguasnet are a few sites with the advantage of being in Spanish.
http://www.saberingles.com.ar/
http://www.linguasnet.com
Learn Inglés is the blog for a space that offers a free online course materials with different support and divided into 3 levels, with practical tips to optimize the learning experience.
http://elblogdeingles.blogspot.com
Tests and quizzes
In English Test offers a wide range of educational levels and questionnaires organized by subject.
http://www.english-test.net/
Tools for creating activities
Malted is a tool of the Ministry of Education to create educational activities for teaching English. In addition the program to create your own activities, have different learning units created for English primary and secondary.
http://recursostic.educacion.es/malted/web/descargas/index_php.php
Jclic is a tool for creating educational activities through the work of very professional education has an enormous collection of resources. When you have filtered the following link dedicated to learning English.
Communities of language exchange
Learning a language should be accompanied by actual practice, that is, we hear and speak the language. Internet offers the possibility of contact with people with whom to talk either via e-mail, chat or instant messaging.
http://mylanguageexchange.com/ allows contact with a group of people who know and want to learn another language. It also includes a huge amount of resources such as job offers that we open the possibility of traveling to another country.
http://www.livemocha.com is a language exchange community. Requires registration. Women and receive help, correcting and correcting you, and the more you participate, you have access to more courses.
http://www.italki.com is a community that allows you to share your language skills, ask for help in drafting a text, share resources, get corrections to your documents and much more.
Recreational resources
In http://www.lyricstraining.com can choose songs and, as you hear this and see the video, should be writing letters, filling gaps or whole, depending on the level we choose.
http://www.subingles.com is similar to the above but with the possibility to choose the artist whose song we want.
In http://www.juegoseningles.es find a typical hangman game for learning English vocabulary.
Videos
Misterduncan discusses topics of the day to day their videos subtitled in English, we can easily follow if you subscribe.
http://misterduncan-in-writing.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/duncaninchina
Learn Inglés with Richard Vaughan is a complete method of learning resources that includes both interesting as a radio and TV content with the thought that learning English can be heard online all day and much more.
http://www.aprendeingles.com/
http://www.vaughanradio.com/
Resources for children
The game is a wonderful tool to motivate language learning among children. Below is a selection of websites targeted at children:
English at an early age is a website with basic vocabulary and a teaching guide to guide parents in using the web.
# http://concurso.cnice.mec.es/cnice2005/132_English_for_Little_children/index.html
In http://info-3.com/english/ the child can browse by topic vocabulary with a visual representation of the word and hear the pronunciation. You need to have installed Quicktime ( http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/ )
Leoloqueveo dictionary is a useful visual theme for preschoolers begin to read. You can print data for each area to work without using a computer.
http://www.leoloqueveo.org/indexi.htm
Learnenglishkids is a site full of games, songs, stories and all kinds of resources for children of different ages. Allow us to register as members, if we want to leave comments or to receive such a newsletter for parents.
http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids.htm?mtklink=kids-learnenglish-portal-main-promo
Mr. Teapot contains several activities for learning basic vocabulary. Includes teaching guide for students and teachers. Need Quicktime to hear and see multimedia content.
Anglès365 has over 1,000 activities were renewed, for different educational levels. In Catalan. You need to have Flash Player installed.
http://www.angles365.com/classroom/index.htm
The Yellow Pencil is a site with many activities and unfortunately too much publicity, making necessary the presence of an adult at all times.
http://www.theyellowpencil.com/index.html
Oxford Galaxy presents six galaxies with different games including also the possibility of a demonstration of how they work.
http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/galaxy/
