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By Kenneth Beare, About.com Guide to ESL since 1997

How do you use the internet to learn English?

Friday April 11, 2008
The internet is a wonderful place to learn and practice English. I think it's the best tool for learning English available. This poll asks how you use the internet to improve your English:

Here are some tips for using the internet more effectively to learn English.

Comments

April 12, 2008 at 12:10 pm
(1) Sanjay says:

I like to use idiomeanings.com for my idioms!

April 15, 2008 at 11:53 am
(2) Ruslan says:

…at sites like this one, and at my blog “English Grammar” http://engrammar.com/ I do my all remarks there, and it’s much better than do it on a piece of paper. My favorite book “English Grammar in use” for intermediate students.

April 15, 2008 at 12:23 pm
(3) Pete Bollini says:

I think you might have considered including in your poll a ’sometimes’, ‘often’ never’ question. Anyway interesting as more and more students start using the infinite variety of ESL material available there.

April 15, 2008 at 5:31 pm
(4) ernest says:

This site is a great tool for gramar and info, and i use “voa special english” for listening.

April 15, 2008 at 6:57 pm
(5) Susie says:

I use www.takeawaylanguages.com. It has a fantastic conversation practice tool for Mandarin speakers trying to speak English.

April 15, 2008 at 10:53 pm
(6) Ivan Svatalavoskolinavich says:

I like very much internet. but no thing replace good teacher in person.

April 18, 2008 at 11:08 am
(7) Patsybel says:

I find this site very useful for ESL teachers, it gives a lot of useful tips and exercices. But I would like to be able to print quizzes to train my learners. Anyhow I do recommend this site.
Can you give an article about Aimé CESAIRE’s death 17TH APR 08?

April 20, 2008 at 11:30 pm
(8) naima says:

I use this site and i find it very interesting, if i don,t inderstand some words or how to speli it i go to :
http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_/tool.html

April 23, 2008 at 11:48 am
(9) Yves says:

I use a lot of stuff, just go along the Dmoz category : “ESL”
(http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=ESL&all=yes&cs=UTF-8&cat=World%2FFran%C3%A7ais),
and you’ll find 700 sites (from the worst to the best).

In the “real life” (yes, still exists!) I apply to meetings organized by some free social networks like:
http://www.meetin.org/ (you always have one near you)
http://polyglot-learn-language.com/index_polyglot.php?session_langue=eng

The last one is laureate of the European language label in 2007. And its bi-weekly language meetings in Paris are very worthwile! You can find it in other cities, too.

July 15, 2008 at 8:46 pm
(10) Chris says:

www.takeawaylanguages.com.cn has just been launched. It is a free site for Mandarin speakers to learn English. (NB: www.takeawaylanguages.com is for English speakers to learn Chinese, and is currently not free).

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