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British and American speakers. Includes various levels, dialogues, narrations, audio-scripts, and online vocabulary quizzes. Sign up for more access.

English accent, not American. Funny videos with transcripts, thematic vocabulary and activities. There are also grammar videos, news videos, and English classes. The website is in Arabic, Russian, Spanish, Chinese and Vietnamese (but not the videos). The levels are lower-intermediate, intermediate, and upper-intermediate.

The free version of Culips offers hundreds of audio lessons. It’s free to listen to Culips. It costs money, called a membership fee, to access most of the accompanying study guides. The audio includes lots of idioms, slang, and phrasal verbs.

A huge selection of authentic videos used to help you learn grammar, speaking, and more, but you must register, which is free.

Fun topics with native and non-native English speakers talking and having conversations. You can listen in various ways. There is also a transcript so you can read and check your listening skills.

Many good videos teaching pronunciation including “fast speech”, vocabulary, writing, study tips and more. There is a link to her YouTube channel too.

Read through the text first. Then listen to videos that give instructions on listening, grammar, pronunciation, and ways to speak (giving opinions, interrupting, supporting opinions, clarifying, elaborating, etcetera)

Several levels of listening available. Most are news stories. Transcripts available.

About 500 listening clips with online and printable (Word and PDF) worksheets.

All non-fiction, such as English language arts, current events, science, social students, brought to you by public radio. You can join for free, but transcripts have a cost.

Listen to conversations, interviews, and lectures. Then take a quiz to test your listening skills.

Just listening- no videos. Basic, intermediate, and advanced listening. Includes a quiz and Audioscript. You can download the conversations to your phone.

Up to date articles about the world broken into 7 different levels.

CNN 10 presents news stories in 10 minutes or less in clear, simple language. Transcripts usually available

Two levels: News read slowly or at a medium pace. The latest news is at the top of the page. Click on the picture to get to the audio. You can read along as you listen. No video, unfortunately

Three levels: basic (easy), medium, and normal. Just listen and read. The original video is only available in level 3. News from all over the world

VOA offers news and information for millions of English learners worldwide. News articles come with audio files so you can read and listen.

News explained in 10 minutes. Downloadable and includes a transcript and news quiz.

Domestic (American) and national news as well as stories about American and world music, culture, and life. NPR may be most popular with college-educated Americans. You can also see transcripts of news stories to read while you listen.

The transcriptions are sometimes abbreviated or slightly different. You can read the news story first to get a general idea of the story, and then listen to the recording.

Listen to real people share true stories about their lives. Some are funny, some are sad, some are amazing- all are interesting.

People from all walks of life share their core beliefs. Transcripts available.

StoryCorps collects recordings of conversations between people as they tell stories from their life. Their mission is to "preserve and share humanity's stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world". There are many types of stories shared, but they are almost always people talking and telling the story together.
Transcript available

TED talks are short presentations that cover a huge range of topics. Sometimes they are very technical, and other times they are not. If you select a talk that has a speaker that is hard to understand, just select another!
Transcripts and subtitles available.

A weekly public radio show broadcast to more than 500 stations to about 2.2 million listeners. Often the most popular podcast in the country, with another 2.4 million people downloading each episode.

Requires app download but is free to use with thousands of videos to learn from. Enjoy content at or above your level and learn from that content. Improve your vocab by tapping on text in the subtitles of a video or in an article to see the definition. The Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page is good for getting started using the app.

Videos designed to help you learn about career options.

Watch and listen to videos created by the Marketing department at Clackamas Community College.