Learn English with Pocoyo!

If you like watching cartoons you might probably know about Pocoyo and have laughed with some of his entertaining videos. We’d like to present to you today a list of Pocoyo episodes in English with which you’ll keep the children entertained while they learn and get use to the sounds of the English language.

Pocoyo - A Mystery Most Puzzling



Pocoyo - Swept Away



Pocoyo - Who's on the Phone?



Pocoyo - Fetch Loula Fetch!



Pocoyo - A Little Cloud



Pocoyo - Table for Fun



Pocoyo - Where's Pocoyo?



Pocoyo - Drummer Boy



Pocoyo - The Grace Race



Pocoyo - Don't touch!



Pocoyo - Mystery Footprints



Pocoyo - Magical Watering Can



Pocoyo - Twinkle Twinkle



Pocoyo - Hiccup



Pocoyo - Pato's Postal Service



Pocoyo - Puppy Love



Pocoyo - Bat and Ball!



Pocoyo - Elly Spots



Pocoyo - Up, up and Away!



Pocoyo - A Surprise for Pocoyo

Learn English with the fantastic resources from Australia Network

If one of your resolutions for the New Year is to learn English, we’d like to present you an online resource that will certainly help you to achieve your target. Australia Network is Australia's international television service, beaming 24/7 to more than 46 countries across Asia, the Pacific and Indian subcontinent. The reason why it’s interesting to us is because it offers many great tools to learn English.

On its section to learn English (Learning English), you’ll find learning programs, video podcasts, social networks and communities.

Moreover, on its learning programs, at the bottom of the page there is a very helpful table that explains the recommended programs depending on your level of English: better than beginner, intermediate and advanced. For instance, if you have an advanced level, you should use the programs Nexus, English Bites and Study English.

On the video podcasts section you’ll be able to subscribe to their video podcast feeds and get the latest available Australia Network Learning English programs automatically downloaded to your computer or portable media device. Finally, on the communities section you’ll be able to access to more content from Australia Networks on sites like YouTube, Twitter, Facebook or Orkut.

Don’t hesitate and visit the Learning English section on Australia Network, you’ll find great (and free) online resources that will surely improve your level of English.

Learn English with Pocoyo (video list 10 to 15)

It’s important that children start learning English from an early age as it’s easier for them to assimilate all the new vocabulary and structures. To help you achieving this, we’ve written this new post containing episodes 10 to 15 of the Pocoyo series.

You can also watch episodes 1 to 5 of the first season of Pocoyo if you haven’t watch them already.

Swept Away



Link to the video on YouTube

Who's On The Phone



Link to the video on YouTube

Fetch Loula Fetch



Link to the video on YouTube

A Little Cloud



Link to the video on YouTube

Table For Fun



Link to the video on YouTube

Keep Going, Pocoyo



Link to the video on YouTube

Learn how to pronounce words with EmbedPlus

EmbedPlus is leveraging its enhanced YouTube player to offer free video-centric learning experiences in different domains. The first is a language-focused tool for pronunciation learning.

From looking around, you’ll quickly see that it breaks the dictionary convention of simply providing short and isolated audio snippets by additionally providing time-stamped videos of real speakers using words in real situations.

The goal is to give learners greater context and less mechanical pronunciations for free. In some cases, like the video in the screenshot below, you’ll even get to observe the facial gestures used to produce pronunciations.



Using the tool is easy. Simply enter a word in its search box and you’re automatically given an audio pronunciation if one exists.The audio can be replayed as many times as you need. Most importantly, if videos have been matched to the word, their tiles are listed horizontally for you to click and watch. The enhanced embedded YouTube controls provided by EmbedPlus help you effectively navigate the playback.

To further improve the number and quality of the available videos, our team recently had the idea of time-stamping videos from interested ESL teachers on YouTube and using them as pronunciation examples. This would lead to an ESL specific track within the videos we serve and offer a two pronged benefit: (1) ESL teachers get more English learners viewing their videos as we grow to serve more of the many daily pronunciation requests, and (2) learners are able to gain more than just pronunciations as they watch content that inherently provides language learning lessons.

We suggest that interested teachers explore a few words on the site and find samples within their own videos. Note that we’d prefer to start with examples for commonly used English words that do not currently have matching videos, like awesome, cache, and tomato. If you are interested, please send an email to our team with the YouTube channel information here: submit@epronounce.com.

This is a guest post written by Tay Omojokun, Tay is the cofounder of EmbedPlus.

Nobuna - improve your level of English through listening games

There is no doubt that in order to get a good level of English, you need to be patient and repeat things a lot. The first time you watch a video or listen to something you probably don’t understand a great deal, but with second and successive hearings as your ear gets used to English the sounds will become more familiar.

This is the idea behind Nobuna, a great website that allows you to improve your level of English by watching videos and completing listening games.

The way it works is very simple; as you go through the exercises, you’ll be absorbing a lot of information by listening to and analyzing the texts. You’ll also be learning and using new words as you fill in the blanks.

The recommended system at Nobuna to learn English is to watch and listen to the entire video without interruption and try to understand the dialogue. Then you watch and listen to the video a second time and try to fill in the blanks. When you’re done with the exercise (it doesn’t matter if you haven’t filled in all the gaps), click on “Finish” to view your results and check them against the video to identify your mistakes and look up words you didn’t understand in the dictionary.

You can see more information about Nobuna on the following video



Link to the video on YouTube

Give it a try, you won’t be disappointed. Visit Nobuna now!

Smories - Great Stories in English for Kids

Smories is a fantastic web page that contains hundreds of stories (in video format) for kids. Moreover, every story is read by a child and it’s also possible to add subtitles, so it’s quite easy to understand these stories.

Every video-story has a title, a summary and the name of the child that reads it. It also mentions the recommended age for the audience of the story along with similar stories for the same range of age.

At Smories, they also have competitions every now and then where quite significant sums of prize monies are awarded to the more successful video-stories.

Smories is without doubt an excellent online resource for your children to listen to a story before going to bed or for the kids at school to have a good time during English or Computer lessons.

Visit Smories and start enjoying its wonderful stories.

This is a guest post written by Mattias. Matthias collaborates at Lernenblog, a blog where you’ll find many tips, material and free resources to learn German online.

Learn English with Pocoyo (video list 1 to 5)

Do you know Pocoyo? And who doesn’t nowadays? :) Pocoyo videos are famous because they are very funny and extremely educational. They’re recommended for children older than 3 years although there are many adults who also enjoy watching them.

If Pocoyo is so liked, why don’t we enjoy the episodes in English so that we can encourage children (and adults) to improve their English? This post includes the first five episodes from the first Pocoyo season.

Hush



Link to Hush on YouTube

Pocoyo Dance



Link to Pocoyo on YouTube

Drum Roll Please



Link to Drum Roll Please on YouTube

Umbrella Umbrella



Link to Umbrella Umbrella on YouTube

A Mystery Most Puzzling



Link to A Mystery Most Puzzling on YouTube

Jennifer ESL - Great English Teacher on YouTube

In the past, we’ve already talked about several people that teach English on YouTube (Paul: Learn American English Online, Mister Duncan, Mrthoth, Steve Ford). All of them were male teachers, today, we’re happy to introduce a female teacher whose classes and videos are also brilliant.

Jennifer is the name of this teacher and she’s produced more than 100 videos for ESL (English as a Second Language) students.

With Jennifer’s videos you can improve many skills of your English because her videos are focused on different aspects like grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and intonation. As an example, you can watch the following video about idioms and sayings about the kitchen:



Link to the video on YouTube

Her videos are all-inclusive as they contain an introduction about the lesson, a more detailed explanation and exercises which you can practice.

To discover all the videos from Jennifer you can visit her channel on YouTube called JenniferESL.

You can also visit her personal website where you’ll be able to get to know Jennifer better and find more material to learn English.

Top Websites to Watch Online TV in English

One of the biggest difficulties that we find in the English language learning process is understanding when someone talks to us, also called listening. There are many different accents in English and if you live in a multicultural society you have to “train your ear” to every English accent that you can find and of which we can mention: British, American, Irish, New Zealander, Indian, French, Chinese, German, etc.

At the beginning it can be frustrating because you’re not able to understand the majority of what someone is saying to you, and because of not understanding several words you miss the whole meaning of the sentence. However, the more you listen to the accent and the way the person talks you’ll understand more.

And, why are we talking about this? Well, in this post we’re going to introduce a series of online resources that you can use to improve your understanding skills (listening) while you watch your favourite series, shows and films. How come? Watching them in English!

Joost content is organized into three main categories: show, music and film. Under shows there are different categories like Sports, Animation, Comedy, Culture, and etcetera. You’ll be able to find series as charismatic as He-man.

In the music category there are video clips and also reports about your favourite artists. Last, there are several sections under films but it has to be noted that the films are usually old, a luxury for lovers of the classics.

Link | Joost

In Hulu content could be divided between series and movies. There is a huge quantity of offered series, including: Human Target, House, Ugly Betty, Lost, Family Guy, White Collar, The Office, Naruto, Chuck, Heroes or 24. Talking about the movies, there is also a big variety of old and new films.

Hulu also offers a classification (depending on the channels): family, sports, music, comedy, drama, videogames, etc.

A very interesting Web page but with just one big disadvantage: its content can only be seen in the US. Therefore users from other countries will have to wait for the time being.

Link | Hulu

Another great website to watch online TV is CastTV; the content is clearly organized in TV/movies, Music Videos, Top Videos and there’s even a section with the commercials from the 2010 Superbowl.

An interesting feature from CastTV is the section about Top Viral Videos or videos that have become famous on the Internet. It’ll allow you to keep up to date about what is being watched on the Internet.

Link | CastTV

In this amazing website you’ll find every series you’re dreamed about; practically every known and not so well known series are here and surely you’ll like some.

You’ll be able to find television series such as: 24, 90210, American Idol, The Big Bang Theory, Bones, Californication, Chuck, The Closer, Cold Case, CSI, Desperate Housewives, Dexter, Family Guy, FlashForward, Friends, Ghost Whisperer, Heroes, The Hills, House, Lost, Medium, Naruto, NCIS, Numb3rs, Oz, Prison Break, Rome, The Simpsons, Smallville, Supernatural and a very large etcetera. There are in total more than 100 series so you won’t get bored with watching TV in English and improving your listening! :)

Link | TVgorge

Great video - Mr Duncan Channel Promo

There is no doubt that Mister Duncan is one of the best online English teachers; his videos are very creative and educational.

We’d like to share with you one of the latest videos that he has made (in order to promote his free channel on YouTube) that is simply wonderful.

In this video Mister Duncan shows off his big creativity and through a rhyme introduces you to his channel for learning English on YouTube:



Link to the video on YouTube

Every video in his channel is subtitled so it’s easier to understand them.

Don’t miss his channel on YouTube

Kindersay - Free English Word Games For Kids

It’s usually said that the younger the student is, the easier to learn a new language. Certainly, the ability that the children have to acquire new vocabulary and expressions is astonishing.

However, sometimes it’s difficult find the necessary material or resources with the required quality to facilitate their learning.

So that we can help in this regard we present you today a webpage where you’ll find superb free videos in English, which the young learners will be able to watch, listen to and learn new words.

The name of this online resource is Kindersay. This website contains hundreds of free online videos (to learn new words) designed to help preschool kids (whose native language is English) and English as Second Language (ESL) children.

With more than 500 videos and online activities the kids can learn new elements as useful as: the English Alphabet, Animals, Food, Parts of the Body, Colours, Time, Shapes, Numbers, Tools, Transport and a large etcetera, Kindersay is without doubt a must-visit site.

If you’re not convinced yet, you should know that for every topic it’s possible to play an online presentation that shows every word in a module. Then for every word you can see its pronunciation, writing and a descriptive image:



There are some other surprises that you can discover by yourself! :)

Link | Kindersay.com

A Quick Way to Improve Your Vocabulary - Subtitled Videos

One of the problems that we usually face when learning English is how to learn new vocabulary. At school we are usually taught new vocabulary by learning by heart big lists of words in English with their corresponding translation.

I personally think that this method is of limited value for several reasons:

• It’s not a natural way of teaching but a “brute force” method.
• It’s not useful to memorize a word and then never use it again; you’ll surely forget it in less than a week.
• When you learn a word from a list you only learn how to write it but not how to pronounce or how to use it in context (in a sentence).

However, there is no doubt that the process of learning new vocabulary is a process of repetition where memory has vital importance. The better your memory, the fewer the number of times you’ll have to repeat a word in order to learn it.

I believe that you learn a word in English when you know how to pronounce it properly, write it and use it (in a sentence).

I’m going to describe below a method that I’ve used to learn new vocabulary. The idea is to use subtitled videos in English (in this case videos from TED mentioned in this post). You choose a video that you like and then through watching it several times you see the evolution in its understanding and learning of new words.

Subtitled videos are an excellent tool because they allow you to see the word (you learn how to write it), listen to it (how to pronounce it) and you see in which situations it’s used (its context).

Videos from TED are made by people that speak fluent English therefore they are recommended for people with an upper-intermediate or advanced level. Nevertheless, if you wish don’t hesitate to use this technique. You can also use it with other videos that are more appropriate for your level of English.

What does this method to learn new vocabulary consist of?

First thing you have to do is choose a video. In my case I chose the video which talks about the mathematics of war.



Link to the video

Then try to watch the video without subtitles and estimate how much you understood. In my case I understood 80%.

Watch the video a second time (without subtitles) and estimate your understanding again. In my case 85%.

Now a third time but turn on the subtitles in English. I understood 90%.

A fourth time with the subtitles again. I understood 90%.

In my case the improvement between the third and the fourth time is zero. This is because I wasn’t able to understand more words on account of the context; plus the words that I didn’t know I needed to look up in a dictionary.

I got down to work and I created the following table with four columns (Word, Meaning, Form and Example of use).

I watched the video again, stopping at those words that I didn’t know and filling in the following table:

Note: You might have to adapt the Meaning column to your native language.

Table 1: New Vocabulary from the Video

Word	Meaning	Form	Example of use
Naive	Ingenuo	Adjective	As a naive New Zealander I thought, well, I’ll go to thePentagon.
Stream	Canal	Noun	If we can get enough of these streams of information together.
Raw	Sin tratar, sin filtrar	Adjective	We brought this raw data in and we filtered it
Pull out	Sacar, extraer	Verb	It’s all in the streams of information we consume daily; we just have to know how to pull it out.
Plot	Trazar, marcar	Verb	We plot data for sample on this (in a graph window).
Blew my mind	Me rompió los esquemas, me dejó “flipando”	Verb	… of theway attacks are ordered in this conflict, and this blew our minds.
Clustered	Apiñarse, agruparse	Verb	The slope of these lines clustered around this value of Alpha equals 2.5.
Slope	Pendiente (término matemático)	Noun	Negative Alpha is the slope of that line I showed you before.
Coalescence	Coalescencia – propiedad de las cosas de unirse o fundirse.	Noun	So we look at a process of group dynamics coalescence and fragmentation.
Seemingly	Aparentemente	Adverb	Why should these different, seemingly different conflicts have the same patterns?
Surge	Levantamiento	Noun	The system gets perturbed, it moves upwards to a fragmented state and this is when the surge happens.

A week later I reviewed the learned vocabulary and I watched the video one more time (without subtitles). I understood 98% - 99%.

Is it that simple?

Well, the way of learning depends a lot on everyone. If you want to optimize this particular method you’ll have to adapt to the way you learn and have regard to your own personal qualities. In my case I have a normal memory and thus it’s necessary for me to REPEAT things several times. If you have a good memory (which is really good to learn languages) you’ll probably be ok if you watch the video a couple of times.

Visit TED’s website and put this method into practise! :)

TED - Great Online Subtitled Talks

Do you remember TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design)? TED is a website that offers hundreds of videos about very interesting topics from important people in the society (more information in this post).

And why are we talking again about TED? Because it has included translations in the videos that are really helpful in the process of learning English.

I’ve seen some of the videos that have been recently added and the majority has the English language available as subtitles; therefore you’ll be able to see written what the speaker is saying. Moreover, there are many other videos that have the subtitles translated to other languages so you might be able to find your native language! :)



Have a look at the following links for more information:

TED’s website

Web page with information about the translations project

Web page with all the languages that have some translation available

Seen in Teaching and Learning Spanish

Video Lectures from the World’s Top Scholars

I hold a fundamental belief that knowledge will be universal, free and world-class. There is no doubt that Academic Earth is fighting for the cause. Why?

It’s because this Web page offers free videos from the top universities and scholars. So you’ll be able to review or learn new subjects while practicing your English (all the videos are in English).

You can search the videos by:

• University: as prestigious as Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford or Yale
• Subject: Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, English, Entrepreneurship, History, Law, Mathematics, Medicine, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psycology and Religion.
• Top Rated Instructors: people as distinguished as Christensen, Sheila Widnall, Bruno Cabanes, Paula Goldman...

There are also courses about a variety of topics like The Civil War, Linear Algebra or General Human Anatomy, to mention some.

The users/visitors can rate the videos and help in the creation of lists, with the best-rated ones (according to instructor, course or lecture).

A website, 110% recommended, with superb material.

Link | Academic Earth

Note: If you are looking for more free lectures in English (in video, audio or text format), we recommend you visit Lecturefox.

Curriculumbits - Teaching Resources You Can’t Miss

Know-all-teacher: I’m looking for some Websites with educational material in English for teachers. Do you know any Learn English Online (LEO)?
LEO: Ummm, I think that I’ve already mentioned some to you like Ziggity Zoom, Visual Dictionary Online or Cambridge English Online.
Know-all-teacher: Yes, I remember that. But I’m looking for an online resource with material for various subjects like Design, English, Geography or Mathematics.
LEO: In this case I believe that I have something that you’ll find useful.
Know-all-teacher: I’m listening…

Curriculumbits is the Web page that can help know-all-teacher and any other teacher who is looking for inspiration for their classes. This online resource offers a great quantity of totally free interactive multimedia material.

Its online library contains games, quizzes, animations and videos in a variety of subjects that include Art & Design, Biology, Chemistry, English, French, Geography, German, Physics, Mathematics or Physical Education to mention some.

There is no need for registration and all the games, videos and animations are available to access online.

It is truly an online resource that deserves a visit.

Link | Curriculumbits.com

English for Advanced Learners - Practise with Videos

Have you hit a wall and don’t know how to improve your English as an advanced student? How does watching videos in English and answering questions about them sound? This exercise will definitely help you and give your English a good push to the next level.

One of the best ways to learn English (or any language) is listening to it. A lot! When you listen to a language you learn new vocabulary, sentence structure and grammar simultaneously. Moreover, if you pair listening with an image (video) the results are impressive because videos allow viewers to understand more through association.

Watching videos in English is an excellent exercise for improving your English skills. In the blog we have already recommended different websites and channels in Youtube where you can watch great videos in English on any subject. But Diana (helping-you-learn-english) and I wanted to help even more, so we decided to select interesting videos from various topics and write a series of related questions. The combination of watching, listening and answering the questions will help you practice and improve your English.

The first video we selected, focuses on a new system (ESTA) that travellers need to apply for in order to travel to the US. We found the video from CNN’s video library and it is read at a normal pace, perfectly suited for learners at an advanced English level. Although if you have a lower English level and still want to try, go right ahead!


ESTA US security application

Warm up questions before you watch the video:

1. Have you ever travelled to the US before?
2. What was your experience like with security?
3. What changes would you make to security to make things safer? More comfortable?

The video:



Watch the video and while you watch the video try to answer the following questions:

1. What does the new US system ESTA stand for?
2. This is a big change to the US travel system. When did the last big change like this occur?
3. The US is the only country introducing ESTA. True or False
4. How long can you stay in the US once your application has been approved?
5. Does ESTA replace your need for a passport?
6. What are authorities encouraging travellers to do in order to make the process easier?
7. Can you travel in the case of an Emergency or last minute booking with the ESTA system?
8. What is the typical waiting period for ESTA application approval?
9. If I told you I paid $100 for my ESTA application, would you congratulate me on getting it for less than $300? Why or why not?
10. What is the cheapest way to apply for ESTA approval?

Final questions:

1. Describe the four steps of the ESTA process.
2. Do you think that ESTA will make travelling safer?
3. Why would the US introduce this form of security?

Answers to the questions, PA stands for possible answer:

ESTA US security application

Warm up questions before you watch the video.

1. Have you ever travelled to the US before? PA: Yes I have. I went to Florida, Disney World about 10 Years ago.
2. What was your experience like with security? PA: I remember the security and passport control people were very serious. I felt nervous like I had done something wrong and they were going to find out...even though I KNEW I hadn't done anything wrong.
3. What changes would you make to security to make things safer? More comfortable? PA: Um, maybe if they had eye scans in addition to passports...or a finger print scanner. Something that makes it next to impossible to impersonate someone. That sounds really futureistic though.

Watch the video and while you watch the video try to answer the following questions.

1. What does the new US system ESTA stand for? PA: It stands for Electronic System for Travel Authorization
2. This is a big change to the US travel system. When did the last big change like this occur? PA: This is the biggest change to occur in the last 25 years.
3. The US is the only country introducing ESTA. True or False A: False. It is also being introduced in much of the European Union, Japan and Australia
4. How long can you stay in the US once your application has been approved? PA: You can stay in the US for up to Two Years or when your passport expires. Whichever happens sooner.
5. Does ESTA replace your need for a passport? PA: No it does not. You still need a passport to travel in the US.
6. What are authorities encouraging travellers to do in order to make the process easier? PA: Authorities recommend applying as soon as travel plans are made and to apply no later than 72 hours before travelling.
7. Can you travel in the case of an Emergency or last minute booking with the ESTA system? PA: Yes you can. You can make the application last minute but for your peace of mind it is better to do it as soon as possible.
8. What is the typical waiting period for ESTA application approval? PA: Typically ESTA applications are approved within 6 seconds (99% of applicants will experience this quick approval).
9. If I told you I paid $100 for my ESTA application, would you congratulate me on getting it for less than $300? Why or why not? PA: No I wouldn't. I would have told you that you had been ripped off because anyone and do the application for FREE online.
10. What is the cheapest way to apply for ESTA approval? PA: The cheapest way to apply is online because it is FREE.

Final questions:

1. Describe the four steps of the ESTA process. PA: Step 1, complete your application. Step 2 Submit your application. Step 3 Recieve and record your application number. Step 4Recieve confirmation of your application.
2. Do you think that ESTA will make travelling safer? PA: I am not sure if ESTA will make travelling safter but it will provide authorities with more information about each traveller.
3. Why would the US introduce this form of security? PA: I believe that it is trying to increase security and reduce the risk of terrist attacks on the country. Being more informed about who is travelling within the US might prove useful in future situations.

This document has been written in collaboration with Diana Tower, an English teacher with 3 years teaching experience. She is also the author of the free Web page Helping you learn English.

A Good Teacher on YouTube - Steve Ford English videos

Steve Ford is another generous English teacher (remember Mr Duncan and mrthoth?) who prepares free videos to learn English online and then uploads them to his YouTube channel.

He speaks clearly in an American accent and many of his videos are subtitled, making them easy to understand. Moreover, the topics and contents of his videos contain some very pleasant surprises.

The videos in English are organized into three categories:

• Peppy: videos to learn grammar and vocabulary. The majority of the videos have associated activities (e.g. a video quiz at the end for reviewing new ideas and concepts contained in each recording.)
• Test Preparation: videos with very useful tips to prepare you for IELTS and TOEFL exams.
• Business: you’ll find the videos in this category extremely valuable to help you get through a job interview (in English), improve your accent (accent reduction) and increase your vocabulary.

Please see below a sample of Steve Ford’s videos, with a variety of tips to prepare you for a job interview in English:



Apart from his channel on YouTube, Steve Ford maintains a number of other websites for learning English:

Podcasts about his videos

Free activities to do online

Don’t hesitate to visit the sites and take advantage of these wonderful online resources.

Learn English with an Online Teacher - mrthoth

Do you remember Mr Duncan? He is an English teacher born in Stafford (United Kingdom) who generously uploads videos to YouTube so you can learn English online.

The thing is that Mr Duncan has a “competitor” (three cheers for competition!) known as mrthoth, a man from the US who also uploads videos to YouTube. The videos can really help you to learn and improve your English.

Mrthoth’s English videos are divided into two categories:

• Videos to follow a course in English grammar.
• Videos to learn the art of Sentence Diagramming, which is a way to represent and break up sentences. This technique will help you to understand grammar better.

Every video has an average length of between four and ten minutes. They are highly recommended for furthering your understanding of English grammar and to get your ear used to the American English accent (bear in mind that mrthoth is from the US).

You can see an example of a video where he explains what a verb is, and conversely, what verbs aren't.



Visit his channel in YouTube

P.S.: It seems that mrthoth hasn’t uploaded any new videos for about seven months, which is a pity because the existing material is very valuable.

List of US Online Newspapers - Read them for Free

Do you want to practice your English reading comprehension and don’t know what to read?

The following list can help you. It contains free online newspapers from the US. Every newspaper is written in English and apart from the news about different categories (business, national, sport, entertainment …) in some of them you’ll find videos, podcasts, comics and games (like crosswords) that will help you in different aspects of your English.

If you don’t know the meaning of some words, you can look them up in any of the available online dictionaries.

ajc.com
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boston.com
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chicagotribune.com
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chron.com
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cleveland.com
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dailynews.com
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latimes.com
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miamiherald.com
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nydailynews.com
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nypost.com
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nytimes.com
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online.wsj.com
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orlandosentinel.com
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philly.com
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seattlepi.nwsource.com
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seattletimes.nwsource.com
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sfgate.com
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signonsandiego.com
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startribune.com
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stltoday.com
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sun-sentinel.com
News about the South or Florida
Video archive
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thestate.com
News about South-Carolina
Comic and game archive
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theunionleader.com
News about New Hampshire
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timesunion.com
News about New York
Video archive
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usatoday.com
News about the US and the World
Video archive
Game archive
Podcast archive
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usnews.com
News about the US
Video archive
Podcast archive
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washingtonpost.com
News about Washington
Audio and video podcast archive
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washtimes.com
News about the US and the World
Video archive
Podcast archive
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A total of 33 free online newspapers with interesting material from which you’ll be able to practice your reading, listening and have fun with the comics, games and quizzes.

Lecturefox.com - Free Online Lectures

Free lectures in English from the top universities all over the world, it sounds good, doesn’t it? That’s exactly what “Lecturefox” offers. It consists of a web page with links to more than 500 free lectures from prestigious universities such as: Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Berkeley, Oxford, Cambridge, Clatech, MIT, UC Berkeley, Edinburgh, Boise State, Princeton, Rice and a large etcetera.

These lectures in English are in a variety of formats (video, audio and text) and are organized mainly in 5 categories:

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• Mathematics: hundreds of lectures about many fields in maths, "Linear Algebra", "Introduction to Statistics", "Differential Equations", "Solving Cubic Equations", " Mathematical Methods for Engineers I", "Calculus I", "Fourier Analysis", etc.

• Faculty Mix: many lectures from a mix of faculties, Psychology ("Positive Psychology", "Introduction to Psychology" ...), Religion ("Introduction to the Old Testament", "Death” ...), Sports ("Tennis", "Scuba Diving" ...) and much more besides that you’ll surely find interesting.

Remember that every lecture is in English, so you’ll learn while improving your level of English.

Long live free education! visit Lecturefox.com