Fun Ways to Learn English

Learn American English and Much More. Read, listen, learn! With VOA News . The Special English Web site is an excellent tool to practice and improve your American English. VOA Special English radio programs are broadcast every day of the year on the VOA network. Each broadcast starts with world news, followed by a short feature report and a 15 minute feature. Throughout this site you will find radio scripts from these feature programs and the matching audio file of the text as it was delivered on the radio. They also offer both RealAudio and MP3 downloadable audio files that you can save and play over and over again. Find a report that interests you. You can find the scripts by topic or by the name of the radio program. Read along and listen to the audio report. At the same time you will learn new information about a variety of subjects from issues in the news to American history. Click here for a list of radio programs. More listening skills .

BBC Learning English has some cool stuff connected with football. How good are you at listening to authentic English football commentaries? Try the Commentary Box quiz to find out. There are five different audio clips connected with the World Cup  for you to test yourself. Or learn some football vocabulary .

If you don't have anyone to chat with to practice your English, why not chat with Egon ? He is a funny creature, he always has something to chat about.

Monty Python : nutty, zany, crazy! It was 40 years ago today that the first episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus appeared on the BBC. The show ran for four seasons, cranking out 45 episodes and unleashing their zany, crazy sense of humor on the world. The group's influence on comedy has been compared to The Beatles' influence on music. Here's one of their most famous sketches: Ministry of Silly Walks You can watch it, read it, learn it, perform it if you like. You can find the script of the sketch here . A few other unforgettable sketches are “ Nudge, Nudge ,” “ Spam ,” “ The Lumberjack Song ,” or “ Dead Parrot “.

Test yoursef by these games from oup.com: anteater game (elementary: prepositions) dolphin game (pre-intermediate) These are only my favourite ones, but there are more -for elementary students: here -for pre-intermediate students: here . Have fun and learn! More online practice More games .

Watch TED - Ideas worth Spreading ! It is a collection of riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world. It's so motivating. So wonderful! Although many talks are difficult to understand for a language learner, there are subtitles available in a lot of languages. Here's one of my favourites: Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address. Steve Jobs is the CEO and co-founder of Apple and Pixar.

Have you ever wanted to start reading the Bible, but never really got down to it? You can do it now with the help of The Bricktestament . It is illustrated with LEGO and it is really really cool. If you find the language difficult to understand, you can follow from a Bible in your own language, since it goes sentence by sentence most of the time. Why don't you check out the Christmas story for a start? More on holidays ...