Language for Exchange

Lingu@net WorldWide

Lingu@net World Wide is a multilingual, online resource centre for foreign language learning.
You can find information about, and links to good online resources from around the world relating to the learning and teaching of any modern foreign language.
Lingu@net World Wide gives multilingual access to over 3,500 catalogued online resources, many of them specifically for learners.
You can now access the whole site in: Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish and Swedish.

CNN Student News

CNN Student News is a commercial-free, daily news program for middle and high school students produced by the journalists and educators at CNN, available free of charge throughout the school year.
You can also see it as a streamed video on the Web site (CNNStudentNews.com), or download it as a free podcast.
The program is free and accessible to anyone who wants to watch.
At CNNStudentNews.com, you’ll find a wealth of teacher materials presented free of charge, including Daily Transcripts for each show, Daily Discussion questions, , in-depth Learning Activities, downloadable Maps and additional support materials to help students understand the news.

Are you an international student looking for English language courses?
If you want to study for your first degree in the UK, you will need to do a foundation course at good University.
Into is a rapidly growing network of university-based study centres, offering new and higher quality standards of preparation for undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in the UK and US. Combining the resources of leading universities with major independent investment, INTO Centres deliver a world-class educational and cultural experience for international students, with fast, effective and assured progression to university degree courses. You can find a range of generous scholarships for international students from all over the world.

Learn Chinese Everyday

Learn Chinese Everyday is a website for people who are interested in learning Chinese.
You can find a lot of categories for learning Chinese.
Here are some examples: Conversation, Grammar, Vocabulary, Exercise, Daily Word…
Many people think that Chinese is a difficult language but with only a few minutes a day you can learn how to read, write, listen and speak the Chinese language.
If a billion people can learn it so can you.

Learn English with Real English

Real English is a completely free site for learning English: Original videos with interactive lessons, an English teacher always present to help you, and a Community of teachers & students learning together.

All of our clips are based on people being themselves, speaking naturally and spontaneously, just like in the situations which learners will deal with when their training is finished, when they travel to English-speaking countries.
The lessons include images and audio files directly related to what the speakers are saying in the videos, providing meaning for beginners and intermediate students alike.

Learn English with SUB-english

Do you like the music?
Do you want to learn English listening your favorite songs?
Then SUB-english website is the great site for you.
You can learn English through songs, videos, with subtitles and / or lyrics.
A funny way to learn English and listen your favorite songs.
I hope you find this site useful and that it will help you to improve your English before you take your first language exchange trip abroad.

Learn English with Daily ESL

If you want to learn English as it is spoken by his native inhabitants in his daily conversations Daily ESL is the web that you are looking for.
Too often, ESL/EFL students spend time reading about topics that they normally wouldn’t use in daily conversation.
This site presents short conversation starters or readings that you can study and then try to apply in everyday situations.
You can find these topics and many more.
• In the Community.
• At Home.
• Holidays or Special Events.
• On Vacation.
• At School.
• At Work.
• In Your Free Time…..
I hope you find this site useful and that it will help you to improve your English before you take your first language exchange trip abroad.

Learn American English Online

Learn American English Online contains really interesting resources for practising English.
You can 8 different levels of incremental difficulty and big variety of lessons for each level:

1. Blue (basic): the verb to be, nouns, pronouns, the present tense and the present continuous tense…
2. Red: to do, much/many, little/few, gerunds, possessive pronouns, infinitives…
3. Yellow: In this level, you will learn how to use perfect tenses, continuous tenses, comparative adjectives, superlative adjectives, and modal verbs.
4. Green: the passive voice, (be) supposed to, Infinitives – Passive…
5. Purple Level: Go, Look, Come, Play …
6. Orange: Simple Sentences, adjective clauses, the future conditional, so/too , tag questions…
7. Violet Level: Words used as transitions and conjunctions (however, while, since)….
8. Video lessons: Present tense, the future, modal verbs….
I hope you find this site useful and that it will help you to improve your English before you take your first language exchange trip abroad.

WONDER HOW-TO

Wonder How To is a great guide to free how to videos on the Web. You can search and Discover the best how to videos across the web using the largest how to video index.
Here you can see some examples:
- Ask and answer questions in the English language.
- Discuss food you like and dislike in English.
- Discuss plans for your life in the English language.
- Plan to travel around the world.
Have your own how to videos? Submit them to share with the world.

Learn English with MISTERDUNCAN

In Learn English with MISTERDUNCAN you can find many videos available on the Internet that can help you practice your English, whatever your level is.
They always have a touch of humor to make watching them more enjoyable.
I hope you find this site useful and that it will help you to improve your English before you take your first language exchange abroad.