An i on podcasts
By Karenne Sylvester
This article first appeared on Kalinago English (http://how2learnenglish.blogspot.com/)
A great way to learn English is by listening to English.
There are many podcasts (short files of audio regularly delivered to your computer) available on i-tunes.
i-tunes is free of charge, you can download it from here.
Once you have an i-tunes account, you can go over to the directory, type in Learn English and you will find many options to stick on your mp3 player.
Here’s a list of some of my favorite podcasts for learning English:
- English Pod= business topics and more – divided into levels
- Business English pod= only business – focus on vocabulary, very good
- Business Spotlight= only business – various skills based recordings. Excellent.
- Grammar challenge= by the BBC, focus on grammar issues
- 6 minute English= authentic vocab, casual recordings, also by the BBC. Lively.
- English through stories= by ESL pod, learning by listening to dramatic stories with video
- EF podEnglish= 5 minute situational videos
- CNN student news= designed for teens in America, see my posting on this here to find these within i-tunes:
- go to ~podcast directory, bottom right-hand side of the page.
- type “name” of one of the above in the search bar, top right-hand side of the page.
Karenne Sylvester is a certified TESOL trainer, working as a freelancer in Stuttgart, Germany and she specialize in teaching adult learners in the financial/ banking, energy, engineering and IT sectors.
She has lived and worked all over the world: from the Caribbean to the US, UK, Australia, Hong Kong and Ecuador.
She is the sole proprietor and webmaster of Kalinago English and author of SimplyConversationsTM, a pedagogically sound speaking skills system, designed to activate language learners’ fluency.
**Reprinted with kind permission, Karenne Sylvester of Kalinago English (http://kalinago.blogspot.com/).
*** ELTWeekly would like to thank Karenne Sylvester for contributing this article.
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