Interesting Links

These are external links, so the University does not take responsibility for their content.

General Language Links

• Improve your grammar skills
• Learn new vocabulary.
• Need help? Search these dictionaries
• Tests and trainers for  your English
• The  Antimoon Blog - "Thoughts for serious language learners"

Listening

General

• Ted: Ideas worth spreading
• ESL Cyber Listening Lab - General Tasks - American Listening practice sources, slightly easier than what you would normally have on the HF exam.

Kuwi

• British Academy Lectures - Recordings and transcripts of several lecture series from the British Academy
• American Rhetoric - online bank of speeches

Law

• Podcasts from Law Schools

 

Wiwi

 

• BBC - Business Daily
• BBC - World Business Report
• The Bottom Line with Evan Davis
• The Economist - Multimedia
• Insights by Stanford Business
• Harvard Business Publishing
• Harvard Business Review

 

Reading

• Articles from the BBC
• Learning community The New York Times

 

Self-Evaluation

• Writing, reading, vocabulary, pronunciation

Vocabulary practice, dictionaries and translation resources 

• Type in your E-mail address and get a new word every day
• Vokabelbox - One of the many vocabular learinging apps you can use on your smart-phone or computer
• Babbel  - A vocabulary trainer and much more, such as podcasts and lessons ­ BUT more expensive than the other vocabulary trainers too.
• Duolingo - Duolingo offers free, vocabulary-based language learning online
• Translegal- A commercial provider of Legal English services with a good mix of resources, including a good learners' dictionary of legal English
• Linguee.com -An excellent dictionary tool as it shows words and expressions in real contexts on the internet, in two languages, with their translations in both directions.
• DeepL -This is for several languages the BEST online translator - O ften giving better results than GoogleTranslate, but it does not offer as many languages.
• Pons Dictionary -This is good as a general bilingual dictionary.
• Cambridge online Dictionaries -

Cambridge offers, among others:

• a good all round English dictionary
• a dictionary for learners
• ones more specifically for British or American English.
• a thesaurus

 

Culture and Study

• Embassies
• British Council Germany
• Education USA - study, internships and work experience in the USA
• Education UK - British Council official website for international students interested in UK education, e.g. universities, courses and scholarships

 

Politics and government in the US and UK

• British Government
• The Labour Party (UK)
• The Conservative Party (UK)
• The Liberal Democrats (UK)
• The Green Party UK
• The Scottish Nationalist Party
• Plaid Cymru - Welsh nationalists

• U.S. Government
• The U.S. Democratic Party
• The U.S. Republican Party  - rather than  a national site for the grassroots party, they have a House of  Representatives Repblicans site, and also  for each State, e.g. Florida GOP
• List of political parties in the U.S. (Wikipedia)

 

Media