ONLINE ENGLISH
(links to sites for learning and practising English)

 

Vocabulary & skills necessary for conversation and speaking generally

English Daily (expressions, proverbs, idioms etc for use in converstation)

Learning Oral English Online (Example conversations and audio files for situations aimed at foreign students)

English Cub (advice, examples & a quiz using conversational expressions or "small talk")

 

Pronunciation (phonetics, phonologgy, etc. inc stress and intonation)

http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/english/frameset.html (All the phonemes: diagrams and audio - US English)

http://pedagogie.ac-montpellier.fr/disciplines/anglais/ressources/phonologie/phonetics.htm (includes academic resources for teachers and specialists)

http://www.englishclub.com/pronunciation/ (exercises ect. Not much audio, but useful anyway)

http://www.soundsofenglish.org/index.html (phonetics - not enough sound, but useful anyway)

http://www.manythings.org/e/pronunciation.html (Some great "listen and repeat"
activities here)

Advice and examples for giving oral presentations

INT LSH (Institut National de Télécommunications, Evry - des conseils, des exemples, etc)

RiceOWL (Advice from Rice University, Texas)

Canberra University (general advice aimed at university students)

TOPS (Hong Kong University site - very professional, video, etc.)

 

Text-to-Speech (TTS)

AT&T labs (type a word or sentence and hear it in UK / US English)

Edict (Hong Kong Virtual Language Centre's TTS softaware - needs downloading first, but lots of variety)

Pandorabots (on-line text to speech chat with talking heads. They don't pass the Turing test, but they're fun)

 

Telephoning

English Channel (some basic advice for telephoning & the international telephone alphabet)

English Club (advice, examples & a quiz)