Sites to Help You Learn and Practice English
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| Using paperback dictionaries |
As we learn English language, we are faced by hard or new vocabulary, need to paraphrase a sentence (rewrite it in different words), write some examples on certain vocabulary, search for synonyms, etc. That said, let's get to know some useful sites to help you advance in learning and maybe do your homework.
1- Youglish
Youglish comes on top of the list for it's amazing tools and options for not just listening, but many other things.
- You first choose the language and you will get the accents options. If English, you get All accents, US, UK, AUS, and when you click the arrow, you will get more accents options. Same is for other languages.
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Ex. You typed the word "action", and chose US accent. Under the videos, you will get some options, the most important of them all as shown in the picture are: 1- Translate arrow ( click on it, you get options for translators like google, Bing ..). 2- the three dots (click on them, you get all the spoken words in the video. And, you can click on any word of them and get a full information on it, like word class, definition, examples, and translation)
- After these options, you get other tools for the word. I will let you explore them yourself.
2- English Central
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| English Central |
This site helps you with videos to learn new vocabulary, practice on listening and speaking, and upgrade your English level through the progress bar. First, start with registering an account to choose your English level. Based on the level you choose, you get recommended courses, plus you can search for videos on the top right using search.
The "vocabulary builder" helps you build your vocabulary through listening to the word, seeing the pronunciation, examples, and quizzes.
Your daily goal is set to 100 xp (experience points) as:
10 xp per video watched
10 xp per word learned
10 xp per line spoken
50 xp per GoLive lesson
Plus amazing options on top of the site for English types like (Business, Media, Social, Travel ..)
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| Voscreen ... life itself |
Another video based language training site (and app) like Youglish but simpler. I recommend you start by registering an account to see your progress. Based on your choices when you register an account, and even after registering, you will get recommended videos.
- On the top left corner, you can choose your playmode (your level, number of words, grammar structure, and even choose kids videos)
- You can replay the video, choose to show or hide subtitles (hiding subtitles gives you more points), choose the sentence that you heard in the video OR the meaning of the sentence (the faster you choose, the higher points you get).
-If you answered a video incorrectly, you can add it to playlist and answer it again later.
- You can join my observation group on Voscreen "English Club" to join the competition with other members. Let me know in the comments if you are interested.
3- Learn English Today
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| Learn English Today |
A Free materials and resources site for learners of English. It has almost all you need including Grammar, Exercises to check your knowledge, Vocabulary and Word Games, Pronunciation, Phrasal Verbs, Business English, and much more. This site is also useful for teachers too as having printable material for classroom.
4- ReadTheory
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| ReadTheory |
A site dedicated for reading and essays comprehension. A must visit site not only for English learners, but specially for people who planning for IELTS. This site is also useful for teachers looking for lesson planning materials and classroom best practices.
5- Write & Improve
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| Write and Improve |
Or as they short it W&I. If you are looking for a tool to let you practice on writing and improving emails, paragraphs, essays, articles, stories, or even writing for fun, then this is your site. You also have an option to practice on Business English. Imagine that you are practicing on writing, someone is highlighting your mistakes, and giving you advice on how to be better on writing, is there anything prettier than that? Create a profile to follow up your progress and start from where you left. They have a Test Zone for IELTS Academic and General tests. Another tool for teachers which is + Class View that enables them to create a group of members through inviting them by email, add tasks to the members, and evaluate them.
6- Storynory
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| Storynory |
Do you like stories? Well, we all do. My mother and my grandmother used to tell me bedtime stories back in time when I was young. This site (plus an app for iPhone and a podcast), lets you enjoy listening to stories while reading the words. The stories are in British English. They have poems too. So, you practice listening and reading in the same time.
7- Paraphrasing Tool
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| Paraphrasing Tool |
I tried to paraphrase this sentence form an article named "Everything You Can Imagine is Real":
"Innovative people who produce works of creation have struggled to enhance the resolution of the pictures inside their brains until it became reality, not only for them, but for others."
And I received this paraphrased result:
8- Fraze.It
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| Fraze it |
9- Parts-of-Speech
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| Parts of Speech |
Imagine you want to get better in grammar, specially in word classification, or what is called Parts of Speech. In this site, you can write your sentence/s, and the site classifies each word for you with a different color. Each color has the word classification. The site will cute the full sentences into separate words for nouns, verbs, adjectives, identifiers, adverbs, etc. Isn't that amazing? I thing this will make you surpass your colleagues in class regarding the Parts of Speech.
10- Virtual Writing Tutor
Below you can find a professional example of an essay deatiled evaluation:
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