Some Online Resources for Speaking and Listening Practice July 25, 2017, more at Lang1234.com Lang1234 50 Languages Pronunciator Internet Polyglot

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1. Numbers  Englishman In New York 2. Connecting Words - Is, And, Are, Between, Middle,  It's Probably Me Quarter, Half Elvis Presley, 47 - 69 words 3. Time  Lonely Man 4. Countries  Indescribably Blue 5. Alphabet  Love Me Tender 6. Optional Review - Big Countries And Ordinal  Return To Sender Numbers Simon and Garfunkel, 45 - 84 words 7. Comparisons - Minus, Zero, Or, Not, About, Smaller,  El Condor Pasa (If I Could) Bigger, Percent, Most, Majority, Divided, Multiplied  Bridge Over Troubled Water 8. Geography And Colors - Oceans, Seas, Rivers,  That Silver-Haired Daddy Of Mine Mountains, Deserts, Religions, Colors  Old Friends 9. Metric System  I Am A Rock Retail Sales Tim Murphey, 9 - 61 words Hotels  Smiling Brings You Happiness Telephone  12 Ways to Bliss Restaurants Others, 44 - 101 words Prepositions  Autumn Leaves  Fly Me to the Moon Songs, MP3, clear voices with Lyrics  I Need You Now Beginner English Songs  There but for Fortune  Happy Birthday  A Winter's Tale  Alphabet  Yesterday  0-2016  Country Roads  Diversify and Balance Your Life  Clementine  Listen to the Drum  I Just Called To Say I Love You  Talk a Lot  Old MacDonald Had a Farm Conversations, clear voices with subtitles or transcripts  Opposites Audio (MP3), Normal Speed, with Transcripts Intermediate English Songs Bill Moyers - 155 shows: transcripts, MP3, video Nancy Stewart, 13 - 68 words Terry Gross  Bluebird through My Window BBC  Dancing Rainbow Colors  An Owl Sat Alone Videos, Slow, with Subtitles  Twinkle Twinkle Little Star 2600 videos: youtube.com/user/VOALearningEnglish Stephen Foster, 22 - 42 words  Hard Times Come Again No More Videos, Normal Speed, with Transcripts  Old Folks at Home, or Swanee River Tavis Smiley + Amy Goodman Patti Page, 47 - 88 words Obama - NPR and BBC  Moon River India - 19 videos  Jamaica Farewell Sting, 102 - 107 words Quiz Or Test 50Languages.com Free App: "Learn 50 Languages" works without data connection after lessons are downloaded. Has ads. Explanations in 50 languages: Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, Vietnamese, etc. Intermediate learners can use English-UK with English-US, for more practice In Phrase Book/Word List., click to play and repeat words and phrases in any order, as often as you need. Record and compare your voice to teachers Free downloaded audio says each phrase twice (3 times if you choose English-English). No pauses, so you speak along with it.

App lets you choose lesson, without 40. Asking for directions 82. Past tense 2 telling you the topics. Here they are: 41. Where is ... ? 83. Past tense 3 42. City tour 84. Past tense 4 1. People 43. At the zoo 85. Questions – Past tense 1 2. Family Members 44. Going out in the evening 86. Questions – Past tense 2 3. Getting to know others 45. At the cinema 87. Past tense of modal verbs 1 4. At school 46. In the discotheque 88. Past tense of modal verbs 2 5. Countries and Languages 47. Preparing a trip 89. Imperative 1 6. Reading and writing 48. Vacation activities 90. Imperative 2 7. Numbers 49. Sports 91. Subordinate clauses: that 1 8. The time 50. In the swimming pool 92. Subordinate clauses: that 2 9. Days of the week 51. Running errands 93. Subordinate clauses: if 10. Yesterday – today – tomorrow 52. In the department store 94. Conjunctions 1 11. Months 53. Shops 95. Conjunctions 2 12. Beverages 54. Shopping 96. Conjunctions 3 13. Activities 55. Working 97. Conjunctions 4 14. Colors 56. Feelings 98. Double connectors 15. Fruits and food 57. At the doctor 99. Genitive 16. Seasons and Weather 58. Parts of the body 100. Adverbs. Lesson shown as an 17. Around the house 59. At the post office example: 18. House cleaning 60. At the bank already – not yet 19. In the kitchen 61. Ordinal numbers 20. Small Talk 1 62. Asking questions 1 Have you already been to Berlin? 21. Small Talk 2 63. Asking questions 2 No, not yet. 22. Small Talk 3 64. Negation 1 someone – no one 23. Learning foreign languages 65. Negation 2 Do you know someone here? 24. Appointment 66. Possessive pronouns 1 No, I don’t know anyone here. 25. In the city 67. Possessive pronouns 2 26. In nature 68. big – small a little longer – not much longer 27. In the hotel – Arrival 69. to need – to want to Will you stay here a little longer? 28. In the hotel – Complaints 70. to like something No, I won’t stay here much longer. 29. At the restaurant 1 71. to want something something else – nothing else 30. At the restaurant 2 72. to have to do something / must Would you like to drink something else? 31. At the restaurant 3 73. to be allowed to No, I don’t want anything else. 32. At the restaurant 4 74. asking for something 33. At the train station 75. giving reasons 1 something already – nothing yet 34. On the train 76. giving reasons 2 Have you already eaten something? 35. At the airport 77. giving reasons 3 No, I haven’t eaten anything yet. 36. Public transportation 78. Adjectives 1 someone else – no one else 37. En route 79. Adjectives 2 Does anyone else want a coffee? 38. In the taxi 80. Adjectives 3 39. Car breakdown 81. Past tense 1 No, no one else. Pronunciator.com App: "Pronunciator" needs constant data connection Only available if your library pays for it (including state-wide in Texas, North Carolina, Louisiana, and Arkansas). Search online for Pronunciator and the library name. Explanations in 50 languages: Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, Vietnamese, etc. Intermediate learners can use English-UK with English-US, for more practice. In each lesson (drop-down menus) you have to learn words in order. Click to repeat as often as you need. "Main course" has Core Vocabulary (100 categories like computers), Powerful Phrases (50 travel categories like money), 100 Verbs conjugated. Some languages have Songs (ProRadio) with lyrics, Videos with subtitles let you loop any phrase you want to learn, and audio downloads. (English has songs and videos, not downloads.) Citizenship prep, health vocabulary, and grammar are in the first menu (same page as language selection in the App). It listens and scores pronunciation, under Main Course / Drills / Pronunciation Analysis, and you can record and compare your voice to teachers.

InternetPolyglot.com Free App: "Internet Polyglot" needs constant data connection, sometimes freezes and needs restart Explanations in 36 languages: Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, Thai, etc. Click to play and repeat words in any order as often as you need; many words but no phrases. Good vocabulary practice if you have an unlimited data connection or wifi. $20 to download audio file, or listen to it free online. Limited use, since it says each phrase once in Spanish (or other language), once in English with pause to repeat, but hard to learn without immediate repetition in English, which you get online or in App, but not in download.  Animals  Profession  Human Characteristics 1  Pronouns, Conjunctions, Prepositions  Human Characteristics 2  Religion, Politics, Military, Science  House, Furniture, and Household Objects  Clothing 1  City, Streets, Transportation  Clothing 2  Weather  Health, Medicine, Hygiene  Car  Greetings, Requests, Welcomes, Farewells  Colors  Feelings, Senses  Food, Restaurants, Kitchen 1  Time 1  Food, Restaurants, Kitchen 2  Time 2  Sports, Games, Hobbies  Work, Business, Office  Money, Shopping  Various Adjectives  Buildings, Organizations  Various Adverbs 1 Lesson shown as an example:  Education 1 by the way, sometimes, right side out, there,  Education 2 formerly, here, quite, well, almost, of course, how,  Entertainment, Art, Music how much, badly, at all, too much, too many,  Family where, in the middle, then, generally, usually,  People: Relatives, Friends, Enemies… never, together, more, rather, a lot, very, again,  Geography: Countries, Cities... upside down, therefore, why, because, what, who,  Tools maybe, rarely, really, often, surely, always, only,  Materials, Substances, Objects, Tools enough, perhaps, too, also, still, a little bit  Measures, Measurements  Various Adverbs 2  Movement, Directions  Various Verbs 1  Nature  Various Verbs 2  Numbers  Life, Age  Human Body Parts  Plants