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Learn and practise useful English language for everyday situations with the BBC. Your weekly instruction manual for saying or doing something in English is published every Wednesday. Each programme is six minutes long and contains examples and explanations to help you improve your knowledge of the English language across a wide range of topics.

BBC Radio's 6 Minute English Podcast is great for weekly doses of useful English for practical situations. It is one of many podcasts from the BBC.

Apple recently released a new section of the wildly popular iTunes Store available through their iTunes software. This new section is called iTunes U, and collects podcasts from numerous universities and colleges to make them available for free download to your iPod or other mp3 player, mobile/cell phone, etc.

One of the sub-sections of iTunes U is specifically for languages and language education (you need iTunes for this link to work).

Currently there are 60 podcasts (probably more by the time you read this) available regarding both learning foreign languages as well as general topics regarding language in general. Many of these podcasts are called OpenCourseWare, considered Open Learning materials released in the Public Domain. This means they can be used freely by teachers and educators without worries about copyright issues - a big plus! Be sure to look at the license for each podcast to make sure of the licensing.

EnglishPod BETA was just released from Praxis Language and adds a fifth element to their current line of foreign language learning podcasts, ChinesePod, FrenchPod, ItalianPod and SpanishPod.

The Praxis Language podcast line offers a content-driven, social-based and software-enhanced Web platform for learning foreign languages. Recently they have been working hard to release mobile language learning features for PDAs, smart phones, etc. EnglishPod reflects the latest in their endeavors to bring these features to the public.

Praxis Language's podcasts and community are open to users for free. Subscriptions to gain access to additional materials and instruction start at $5 USD/month.

ESLPod.com is run by a volunteer team of experienced English as a Second Language professors with over 30 years of high school, adult, and university ESL teaching experience.

For many people around the world, learning English is very important. Unfortunately, there are very few useful, effective sources for learning English. Most people take English classes, which help them up to a certain point. ESL Podcast is designed to help you continue to improve your English.

On BreakingNewsEnglish.com you can find ready-to-use lessons for English as a Second Language teachers and English as a Foreign Language teachers. It goes without saying that these lessons are equally well suited for learners of English.

Each week you can find several new lessons at two different levels. All lessons are based on stories currently in the news. The lessons are downloadable in Word.doc and PDF formats. Classroom handouts are readily reproducible and teachers can easily copy and paste the parts of the lessons they want to use. Listening files can be downloaded in mp3 format or subscribed to via a podcast.

Just Vocabulary is an English vocabulary audio podcast that introduces words from the GRE, SAT and TOEFL lists. The podcast has been going strong since 2005, which is more than most podcasts can claim.

Just Vocabulary introduces two words per episode and explains them in detail including antonyms, synonyms and example sentences. There are literally hundreds of episodes to choose from, providing listeners with hours and hours of content and hundreds of vocabulary terms. It's really quite impressive.

Of course, it's free to subscribe and there is also a newsletter, study quizzes/games and a map of where listeners tune in from. Also available for a nominal price are very useful study guides for iPod.

These audio lessons aren't just for people learning English! With words like quixotic, immure, abstemious and surreptitious, these lessons are incredibly useful for native English speakers preparing for SAT, GRE, college level English courses or just interested in expanding their vocabulary.

Teachmaster is a very versatile program for vocabulary learning which will certainly meet all your requirements. Teachmaster consists of four modules: You edit your vocabulary files in the Editor section and learn with the Teaching program. You can convert other files to the Teachmaster format in the Converter section. Finally, there is the Quiz with which you can learn your vocabulary with the multiple-choice method.

Essential Grammar in Use is a grammar reference and practice book for elementary learners. Modelled on Raymond Murphy's highly successful intermediate level English Grammar in Use, it concentrates on areas of grammar normally taught at elementary level.
Adopting an easy-to-use approach, on each left-hand page a grammar point is explained and on the facing pages there are exercises to check understanding. Grammar for elementary learners is explained in simple language. The contents list and index of grammatical items make it easy for learners to select the units they need. Additional exercises offer extra practice of key grammar points, and appendices deal with tenses, irregular verbs, short forms, spelling and phrasal verbs.

With the launch of our redesigned website, it was about time to start a blog. Besides posting interesting things about learning and teaching English, I will try to keep you up to date on what is new on our website.

The relaunch doesn't only include a new layout but was build from scratch with the user in mind. That means that we tried to make everything more interactive by providing you with the possibility to comment on new stories, suggest new links to be included and generally speaking be part of the process. We all hope that you will take advantage of our new features and participate in order to make englishonline.info a place where you can find important information regarding "learning English online".

As this is the first blog entry, I would love to get your feedback on the redesign (don't forget to take part in our poll on the left hand side) as well as on what you would love to see on our website. Is there anything that you miss? Tell us about it and we will see what we can do to meet your expectations. Just leave a comment or get in touch via this form. We are looking forward to reading all of your feedback.

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