If you want to improve your English listeing skills, one of the best ways is to have more opportunities to listen to authentic materials such as news, interviews, speeches, discussions, dramas, you name it. The Internet is a great resource that you can use for this purpose. AudioNet is a home for sports, news, interviews, and local radio stations. RadionNet is another great site for news, weather forcasting, traffic, and local information. Natioinal Public Radio is the site for one-hour long RealAudio news.
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US Supreme Court provides a large amount of historic cases in RealAudio format that have been done on US Supreme Court. The oral arguments to defend each position seems to be a great resource for more advanced students. Last year, we watched a presidential race between Bill Clinton vs. Bob Dole in the United States. If you are interested in what their positions were and what they are going to do for American people and the world, stop by All Politics site or US Republican Party. The Internet Today .