Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Free website to learn English - with audio and transliterations

Hi Everyone !
I have a website called:
Learn English
http://www.learn-english.co.il
Learn English is a free, on-line, educational resource helping
ESL and EFL students to learn English words. The flash site
incorporates 40 topics, along with over 1,500 English words
and phrases. When you click on a word or phrase you can
hear it spoken. The high quality audio was created
in a sound studio.
The site is multilingual. The menus, transliterations and
translations are in four languages: French, Hebrew
Russian and Spanish.
There is an English Only menu, for those who prefer
not to use language translations and transliterations.
Feedback (in English) is welcome.
Have a good day,
Jacob Richman

Hi, Jacob,
I saw the website , and it's fantastic!
Compliments, is perfect.
Do you know some good DVD lesson for to learning english( for example
espanol24, attached at the magazine "il sole 24 ore"
Thanks, thanks a lot ..
B.
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 Learn Englishhttp://
www.learn-english.co.il
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I can appreciate the effort put into building the website but there
are quite a few things to talk about.
The English only version is quite useless as there's no picture or no
definition to go with the words, so, unless one wants to just read/
hear a list of words within a topic there isn't much one can do with
it. It's not useful even if you are looking for the pronunciation of a
word as there's no search option. An online or CDrom dictionary  will
do a much better job.
I looked at the Spanish/English version and that's a bit more useful,
though I don't much agree with transcribing pronunciation without
marking it as such.
Also, the fact that there's no search option will make it impossible
to use if you want to look for the meaning of a particular word.
Besides, the whole thing is quite slow to load; why do it in Flash?
As a teacher if it had had pictures to go with the words I would have
been able to use it with my dyslexic students. As it is
I really see no use in it.
Claudia

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Claudia, I didn't find it slow to load.
I think this is basically a reading site and if you want to use it as
such, it's perfect.  You have the word, the pronunciation, and the
bilingual links with the translation.  Of course, if you are trying to
teach vocabulary, then it would be nicer to have a picture.  Although
it's  limited to one aspect of the language, I like the site.   Have
you seen 
www.languageguide.org
That has graphics.
bye
Ari

 Learn Englishhttp://
www.learn-english.co.il
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Nice!  I like it!
Ari

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Dear Ari, slowness may be due to my bandwidth, though I have a quite
fast DSL connection.
What do you mean by "reading site"?
As a teacher but also as a potential learner I keep on not seeing the
use of the monolingual version. There are no links to inform you about
the meaning of a word; all you know is that it is related to a certain
topic. Of course, you can look it up on a dictionary, but the good
thing about the Net is linking, the idea that you can "expand",
fullfill your curiosity without having to use other reference sources.
As I already said there's no way of searching for something if you're
curious about the pronunciation of one particular word. There's no way
of exercising the acquired (if any) vocabulary knowledge... There are
a lot of websites where you can find lists of words and much more, and
this is a graphically pleasant quite useless replica, not one that I
would advise anyone to visit.
I'll now take a look at the other one you mentioned, though I should
be writing tests...
Ciao
Claudia

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It has indeed, isn't it a lot better? Isn't it much more useful?
Thanks very much for the tip! :-)
Claudia

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I have another site which you may find useful:
Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun
http://www.vocabulary.co.il
The Language Match game has audio and pictures.
Jacob

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Nice one.Thanks for sharing.I refer 
http://www.youtube.com/user/twominenglish
 for learning English.English learning is very interesting.