These days, there are lots of online resources to help you learn English at home for free. Although the best resource is always a good teacher, you might only see your teacher a few hours a week. That leaves a lot of time for you to practice at home. Check out some of the tools below and let me know if there are any others I should add to the list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vocabulary<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Quizlet<\/a>\u2013 This app allows you to make flashcards and quizzes. Perfect for reviewing vocabulary. There are also flashcards and quizzes made by other people for the IELTS test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anki-<\/a>\u00a0Another great site for vocabulary. It is a spaced repetition flashcard program that will make remembering vocabulary easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Memrise<\/a>\u2013 Memrise helps you learn words and phrases by using a spaced repetition program similar to Anki. All the materials are contributed by other users, so there are lots of materials ready to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wordreference.com<\/a> is a powerful translation tool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Learning with texts<\/a> allows you to paste in a section of text, note which words within that text you do and don\u2019t know, quickly look up the words you don\u2019t, and create flashcards from them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The English Learner Movie Guides<\/a>\u00a0provide movie and character summaries, as well as words and phrases learners might not know from well-known movies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pronunciation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Forvo <\/a>allows you to simply type in a word and hear how a native speaker would say it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sounds of Speech<\/a> is an invaluable app for anyone learning phonemes. It animates the different mouth movements required to make each sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n British Council Phonemic Chart<\/a> allows you to see and listen to all of the sounds of English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Listening<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n TuneIn Radio<\/a>\u2013 With over 100,000 stations, TuneIn has the largest selection of free sports, music, talk & news radio from around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n RhinoSpike<\/a> is an online language learning community that allows users around the world connect and exchange foreign language audio files. Get any foreign language text read aloud for you by a native speaker!<\/p>\n\n\n\n VOA Learning English<\/a> allows you to listen to the news in English and improve your listening and vocabulary at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lyrics Training<\/a>\u00a0provides gap-fills for well-known English songs. Great for listening, grammar, and vocabulary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Speaking<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Google+ Hangouts<\/a>\u2013 Simply set up an account and connect with lots of people who want to practice speaking English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n iTalki<\/a> is a language learning social network that connects students and language teachers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Verbling<\/a> lets language learners connect with native speakers around the world through live chat and video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bussuu.com<\/a> is one of the biggest language exchange communities on the web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Internations<\/a> is a huge network of English speakers living abroad. Use it to connect with English speakers in your country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n VoiceThread<\/a>\u00a0is a tool that allows you to upload pictures and videos and then record yourself talking about them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Writing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Lang 8<\/a> is a language learning platform where native speakers correct what you write.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Common Errors in English Usage<\/a> explains common errors and how to avoid making them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n