Helpful links to pages for improving English via ESL sites:

• About.com's English as 2nd Language [esl.about.com]
• About.com's English_Grammar Interactive Quizzes [esl.about.com/od/englishgrammar/English_Grammar_Help_Rules_Worksheets_Games_Quizzes_Exercises]
• UsingEnglish.com - Learning English (ESL) Online [www.usingenglish.com]
• A to Z Teacher Stuff ~ Teacher Resources, Lesson Plans, Themes, Tips, Printables, and more  [www.atozteacherstuff.com]
• Education Planet [www.educationplanet.com]
• LanguageCourse.net [www.languagecourse.net] Free language course; reviews of language schools worldwide; price comparison of language school & language study online.
• O N L I N E  E X E R C I S E S in Grammar [www.smic.be/SMIC5022/exercisesgrammar.htm]
• English Grammar Online [www.ego4u.com]
• English Exercises Online [wwwedu.ge.ch/cptic/prospective/projets/anglais/exercises/welcome.html]
• Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab [esl-lab.com] Audio and quizzes.
• ENGLISH GRAMMAR EXERCISES [englishonline.sites.uol.com.br/english/basic.htm]
• Living and Teaching in Bangkok [www.ajarn.com] Thailand Teaching Website.
  
• EnglishTown.com [www.englishtown.com] Commercial ESL site.
• Funny Lessons in English for Spanish speakers [www.funnylessons.com]
• Antonyms & Synonyms Quiz [www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/38.html]
• English Phonetic Symbol Flash [www.tingroom.com/ddimg/uploadimg/20061209/132035388.swf]
  
• Activities for ESL/EFL Students [a4esl.org] Quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles to help you learn English as a Second Language (ESL).
• ESL Audio Test for Listening [eslus.com/LESSONS/PRONUNCI/PRONUNCI.HTM] Great for Arab and Japanese natives to test their listening to difficult sounds in English.
• UGoEigo ~ ESL Phonics Video Podcast "English Sounds" [www.ugoeigo.com/category/podcasts/english-sounds/page/2/] Use UGoEigo's video ESL podcasts to learn to pronounce and understand English as a Second Language.

Vocabulary building sites:

• New York Times - Word of the Day [www.nytimes.com/learning/students/wordofday]
• Wordsmith - A.Word.A.Day [wordsmith.org/awad] They email the word each day.
  
• Merriam-Webster's - The Word Of The Day [www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/mwwod.pl] This site has audio pronunciations of the words and a podcast.
  
• Oxford English Dictionary [www.oed.com/cgi/display/wotd] They email a word each day and have RSS feed.
• WordReference [www.wordreference.com] Good translation of unusual words.

English dialects and accents:

• Canadian, Eh! [www.answers.com/topic/eh]
• CBC Canadian Experience: Talking Canadian [www.cbc.ca/canadianexperience/talkingcanadian/index.html] Not much at this page other than a description of a wonderful program that aired on Canadtian TV covering the Canadian English dialect. The program airs as a rerun, now and then, on a CBC network and is available from the CBC Shop on DVD.
• Canadian Glossary [www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hgscc/glossary.html] Small list of some Canadian words.
• Yahoo Canada Online Dictionary List [ca.dir.yahoo.com/Reference/Dictionaries] Pointers to sites for Canadian online dictionaries and translation tools.
• World Wide Words [www.worldwidewords.org] Interesting lists and definitions of British words.

Radio websites for learning or listening to English:

• Voice Of America Special English [www.voanews.com/specialenglish] They speak slowly enough for a beginner to understand.
  
• BBC China Learning English [www.bbc.co.uk/china/learningenglish] English learning specifically directed at native Chinese speakers.
  
• BBC Learning English on World Service Radio [www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio] BBC counterpart to VOA's Special English.
• Roger Lyon on BBC Radio Merseyside in Liverpool, England  [www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/content/articles/2006/06/29/radiomerseyside_pres_rogerlyon_feature.shtml] Lyon's program includes guests and listeners that have a variety of British accents influenced by Liverpool's proximity to Ireland and Scotland. Good listening.
• Radio Australia English Service Lessons [www.radioaustralia.net.au/learnenglish] The Australian accent is present in these lessons, but not as bad as most. Good for people from China, Indonesia, Cambodia and Viet Nam.
  
• StudioClassroom [www.studioclassroom.com/lt/lt_radio.php] hosts a radio series called "Let's Talk in English"
  
• China Daily Audio News [www.chinadaily.cn/language_tips/cdaudio/audio_cd.html]
  Daily audio news stories in slower paced English with text scripts.
• Classics Channel --- Songbirds [www.rthk.org.hk/classicschannel/songbirds.htm]
  Hong Kong's Radio 4 has been broadcasting a unique and very popular English Language teaching program for local students. The drama follows a group of characters who experience the joys and difficulties of being a teenager and young adults. Most of the characters acted by local students, teachers and lecturers.
• World Radio Network [www.wrn.org] A rebroadcaster of fine national radio stations from around the world. For decades, countries have broadcast their national radio services on Shortwave Radio. WRN combines these feeds in blocks as 24-hour radio services. Current and in English. You can receive their feeds MP3 as Shoutcasts.
  
• China Radio International has an English Radio Service that gets exported to various countries. "Beyond Beijing" is good listening:

  Round the Clock   Capital Service 1 Easy FM Capital Service 2 Nairobi 91.9 FM   Vientiane 93.0 FM   Perth 104.9FM   Frequencies    | Schedules Programs A-Z | Download

Slang & Novelty sites:

• Dictionary of British English Slang [www.peevish.co.uk/slang]
• Slanguage [www.slanguage.com]
• List of Acronyms & Text Messaging Shorthand [www.netlingo.com/emailsh.cfm]
  
• The Urban Dictionary [www.urbandictionary.com] A Wiki-type slang dictionary. Includes slang, local words and even Canadian-only words like "jambuster" and "chesterfield".
• Australian Slang Dictionary [www.koalanet.com.au/australian-slang.html]
  
• Rap Dictionary [www.rapdict.org]
• The Phrase Finder [www.phrases.org.uk] Not necessarly slang, but a tool for understanding phrases that don't have obvious meanings.
• Dictionaraoke - The Singing Dictionary [www.dictionaraoke.org] Pop oldies sung by the voices of the online talking dictionaries.
• 1st International Collection of Tongue Twisters [www.uebersetzung.at/twister/]
  The world's largest collection of tongue twisters has 2750 tongue twisters in 108 languages with English translations.
• Texas Talk [www.rice.edu/armadillo/Texas/talk.html] A site from Rice University with a slew Texan ways of speakin'.
• Engrish from CQexpat [http://www.cqexpat.com/i_chinglish/list.asp]  Nice collection of photos of signs with Chinglish.
  

Translation tools:

• Babelfish [babelfish.yahoo.com/tr] Online multi-language translation website
• Alfalink Electronic Translators [www.alfalink.co.id] Maker of good multi-language electronic translators that talk, as well as display words and phrases in each language.
• Google Translate [translate.google.com/]
  

Culture sites:

• America's Story [www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/es]
• American Film Institute's 100 Film Quotes [www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/quotes.aspx]
• Russell Peters [/www.myspace.com/therealrussellpeters] A Canadian comedian of Indian/British descent gives a great cultural tour of Asians speaking English in his perforrmance, "Outsourced".
  

Enter ENGLISHBABY and LEHERE sites from my pages:

• WORLDMIKEL at EnglishBaby [www.englishbaby.com/findfriends/gallery/detail/56486]
• WORLDMIKEL at LEHERE [www.lehere.com/buser_info.asp?user_id=6555]
• WORLDMIKEL at LIVEMOCHA [www.livemocha.com/profiles/view/1388056]
  

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• WORLDMIKEL at MySpace [www.myspace.com/worldmikel]
• WORLDMIKEL at CHINA MySpace [wwwcn.myspace.cn/worldmikel]
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• WORLDMIKEL at YouTube [www.youtube.com/worldmikel]

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• Azot's LiveJournal [ntn.livejournal.com/14596.html]
• Landlady in the CostaBlanca forum [www.notesfromspain.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1691]
• Juandeee's bookmarks on del.ico.us [del.icio.us/Juandeee]
• ApplyAbroad post about TOEFL and iBT [www.applyabroad.org/forum/index.php/topic,3721.0.html]
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