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Useful Links - Listening Comprehension

Popular songs from the 1930s to the 2000s	Learn English by singing along!
RealAudio Jukebox	This fantastic website allows you to read the lyrics of each song while you are either simply listening to it or doing your own Karaoke version of it. All the lyrics feature Active Dictionary pages - just double click the mouse on any word in the text to see a dictionary explanation.
Practice Material
Listen a minute	One minute a day is all you need to improve your listening skills. Focus on new words, grammar and pronunciation in these short texts. Doing the online activities, discussion, survey and writing will help. Listen many times - enough for you to you understand everything. Listen A Minute.
"The Learning Edge"	Interactive listening and reading comprehension material based on current events seen from a Canadian angle.
The Way We Say It	"It sounds fishy to me", "That's all there is to it", "Let's get it on", "Knock it off!" - Listen to and learn the phrases you need to know if you no longer want to sound like a typical foreigner trying out his school English.
English Language Listening Lab Online	Learn English by listening to English speakers from all over the world. Over 400 listening activities to choose from!The site is for students and teachers of English. In my opinion there is a huge need for authentic, graded listening for learners, especially new learners of English. Also, this site is for teachers around the world who are looking for alternative listening materials for their students.
Randall's Cyber Listening Lab	Great listening comprehension exercises (multiple choice quizzes) and a great way to improve pronunciation skills (Realplayer needed)
Listening Comprehension exercises for beginners
Listening Comprehension exercises for advanced students
English Accents Worldwide
Sounds Familiar? Accents and Dialects of the UK	Do you call a ‘bread roll’ a cob, batch, bread cake, barm cake or scuffler? How do you pronounce the words cup and plant? And are you sitting or sat at this computer? This site captures and celebrates the diversity of spoken English in the second half of the twentieth century. A clickable map of the United Kingdom allows you immediate access to 71 sound recordings and over 600 short audio clips chosen from two collections of the British Library Sound Archive.
English Around the World	The most comprehensive source on different realizations of English worldwide.
Dialects of English	Here you will find recordings representing special collections projects. These collections encompass more than just dialect/accent. They also represent oral history projects and other sound files useful to researchers.
World English	This site is a new feature where you can listen to dialogue or a poem being read by different native speakers from assorted English speaking countries. This list will include speakers from various locations in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, USA, Canada, and the West Indies (Jamaica). While you listen you can also read what the speaker is saying. This is a good way of improving your listening skills at an advanced level and learning to recognise the differences between accents of different British, American and World English speakers. And at the same time increasing your knowledge of English literature.
The way we speak	Audio documentation of British variants of English.
English accents and dialects	Listen to England's changing voice. More than 650 extracts from the Survey of English Dialects and the Millennium Memory Bank document how we spoke and lived in the 20th century.
English accents worldwide	Our library of English listening exercises is listed by the name of our guest, the main topic in the interview, and their English accent. You can use this material at any time. Click on the name of the guest to get started and see a brief description of the material as well as a photograph of our guest.
Radio Stations	You can hear these stations live on the internet 24 hours a day
BBC World Service
Voice of America Special English news programme	Voice of America's "Special English" news program communicates by radio in clear and simple English with people whose native language is not English. It helps people learn American English while they learn about American life and stay informed about world news and developments in science. It has a core vocabulary of 1500 words. Most are simple words that describe objects, actions or emotions. Some words are more difficult. They are used for reporting world events and describing discoveries in medicine and science. "Special English" writers use short, simple sentences that contain only one idea. They use active voice. They do not use idioms. "Special English" broadcasters read at a slower pace, about two-thirds the speed of standard English. This helps people learning English hear each word clearly. It also helps people who are fluent English speakers understand complex subjects.
National Public Radio (U.S.A.)	covers news and business as well as arts and culture
Australian Broadcasting Corporation News Radio
Deutsche Welle	The English language programme of Germany's government-sponsored international radio station
Israel National Radio


Literature and Documentary Files
Peter Ustinov reads James Thurber Fables	The late Peter Ustinov reads the fables of humorist James Thurber. James Thurber contributed cartoons, stories, and humorous sketches to the New Yorker from 1927 until his death in 1961. Thurber, an original American humorist, follows the pattern of the Greek fabulist Aesop in illustrating human moral dilemmas by using animal characters. Ustinov's rich voice brings these brief stories alive.
American Rhetoric	Database of 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of famous public speeches. 200+ short audio clips from well-known speeches, movies, sermons, popular songs, and sensational media events by famous (and infamous) politicians, actors, preachers, athletes, singers, and other noteworthy personalities. Clips are designed to illustrate various rhetorical devices used in specific rhetorical situations. Full text, audio and video database of some 80 Hollywood movie speeches.
Audio Interviews	Short statements by famous people - from the Dalai Lama - Whether there are any circumstances in which violence is acceptable - to George Bernard Shaw - A few things he has learned now he's 80. The trick to passing exams. Coping with life after school - and others. (BBC Four)
Sound Portraits	Established as a not-for-profit corporation in 1994 by MacArthur Fellow David Isay, Sound Portraits Productions is an independent production company dedicated to telling stories that bring neglected American voices to a national audience. Whether on the radio, in print, or on the Web, Sound Portraits is committed to producing innovative works of lasting educational, cultural, and artistic value.
Shakespeare Links to Streaming Audio	Audio Files of some of the most famous plays
Shakespeare: Subject to Change	Let Shakespeare show you the brain-charging learning power of broadband technology.
The Poetry Archive	Das britische Poetry Archive, das sich zum Ziel gesetzt hat, Audio-Aufnahmen aller bedeutenden angelsächsischen Dichter beim Lesen eigener Werke zugänglich zu machen, erweist sich wenige Tage nach dem Start des Webangebots als Erfolg. Zu dieser Bewertung kommt der britische Dichter Andrew Motion laut einem Gespräch mit der BBC. Motion hatte Poetry Online zusammen mit dem Plattenproduzenten Richard Carrington gegründet. Das Non-Profit-Projekt finanziert sich aus Zuschüssen öffentlicher Stellen und durch Zuwendungen gemeinnütziger Organisationen und durch Privatspenden. Nach Einschätzung des Dichters trägt das Sound-Archiv erheblich zum Verständnis von Gedichten bei. Deren Wirkung im mündlichen Vortrag sei dem Eindruck aus der Lektüre der Druckfassung mindestens ebenbürtig, teilweise erschließe sich der Sinn der Verse erst durch den auditiven Vortrag. Zu lange habe die 'Papierform' der Lyrik deren Deutung dominiert. (Zitat: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/67325 )
MoMA Audio Guide Tours	The Museum of Modern Art, New York is pleased to offer MoMA Audio, consisting of four distinctive audio programs: Special Exhibitions, Modern Voices, Modern Kids, Visual Descriptions, and Think Modern: Adult and Academic Programs Audio Archive.