Resources


Jeff's Favorite Sites (totally subjective)
General/Mixed Purposes
Games & Activites
     Sites designed specifically to provide exam preparation
    Listening
    Podcasts with Transcripts
    GENERAL PODCASTS

    Language Podcasts 
    Sources of Audio Books and other recordings
    Podiobooks
    		Podiobooks offers complete books in episodic form so you can get just a chapter at a time via RSS or by iTunes. In addition, you can simply click and listen to a story online. Think of a serialized story when it comes to Podiobooks. You can download the serials/stories directly to your computer, transfer the entire file(s) to a CD for listening again and again, or put the story on your MP3 player so you can listen to it wherever you might be.
    Open Culture
         		Open Culture is a portal to the finest educational and cultural resources on the Web. They've got a very respectable collection of great audio books, mostly classics, available for free in a variety of downloadable formats from all over the Web. Books are organized alphabetically by author's last name by genre: Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Poetry.
    Internet Archive
         		The Internet Archive has a very good collection of free audio books and poetry recordings from a eclectic variety of sources. There are a number of ways you can find books to listen to here, including by subject, keywords, alphabetically, or by title. You can also check out the most downloaded items of the week (sorted by popularity), the most downloaded items of all time (again, sorted by popularity), or by what the Internet Archive staff has picked as their favorites for the week.
    LibrivoxLibrivox is an entirely volunteer-curated collection of free audio books that are in the public domain. Volunteers read chapters of these books, and the chapters are then placed online for public consumption. You can find titles to listen to at Librivox by searching by author, title, language, browsing the entire Librivox catalog, or checking out the most recent additions to the website.
    Learn Out LoudLearn Out Loud is a gigantic collection of free audio books, lectures, and educational podcasts. Here, you can find all sorts of interesting content divided into categories as diverse as Arts and Entertainment, Business, Sports, or Travel. You can also filter your search results by Audio Download, Online Audio, Most Popular, Alphabetical, Author Name, Average Member Rating, or Featured.
    Project Gutenberg

    Project Gutenberg 

     is one of the oldest and largest sites on the Web, offering thousands of free, public domain books both to read and to listen to. Their audio books project offers free downloads in two main categories: human-read audio books, and books read by computer-generated voices. Burrow into either of these categories and you'll see listings sorted by author, title, and language.

    Pronunciation & Speaking

     Top Practice Sites
     Other Sites

    Chatbots are automated chat tools that can be pre-programmed say certain things
    or  interact with users. Text to speech chatbots allow you to create a speaking character (or  avatar)

      Vocabulary

      Reading
      Writing
      Grammar


      Reference
      Mobile Tools
      Fun Sites  (personality tests)



        Open Online Courses Most sites gathered from:  http://www.mooc.ca/courses.htm

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