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BBC World News Bulletin
5 minute latest news bulletin, updated every hour.

BBC World Service 24 hour News channel
Live Now - RealAudio stream

Car Talk Radio Show
You can listen to this popular NPR talk show online using a RealAudio player.

English Listening Quiz - Ordering a Meal
Listen to a streamed RealAudio file, then answer 12 questions. (Slow page.)

Frontline
Watch this PBS 60 minute program online.

History and Politics Out Loud (Jerry Goldman)
Hear famous speeches by Roosevelt, Nixon, Khrushchev, Nixon, Kennedy, Churchill

Learning English - The Flatmates (BBC World Service)
Weekly episodes, language point, quiz, background.

Listening Comprehension Quizzes (edu.qd.sd.cn)
If you don't read Chinese, just ignore the Chinese and click the links.

Listening Comprehension Quizzes (www.putclub.com)
If you don't read Chinese, just ignore the Chinese and click the links.

PBS Online Newshour (National Public Radio - USA)
You can listen to current news and also see the written text (RealAudio)

Pulse of the Planet (National Geographic)
Listen using RealAudio or WinMedia as you read the text.

Read Along with LA Times - Kid's Reading Room
See the text while listening to stories written for American children.

Read Along with LA Times - Kid's Reading Room - Main Index
See the text while listening to stories written for American children.

SmithsonianAssociates.org - Online Audio Programs
Advanced, Features professionals covering diverse subjects in RealAudio.

Stanford University's English for Foreign Students - 2006 Summer Lectures
For high level ESL students and of interest to native English speakers, too.

Studying in Western Australia (John Wong)
Gap-fill listening task using embedded Java applet

The History Channel - Great Speeches Archive
Streaming RealAudio files for advanced ESL/EFL students. (Scripts, too.)

This Americann Life (From WBEZ in Chicago)
A 'Public Radio International' (PRI) radio show available online in RealAudio.

Voices from the Days of Slavery (Library of Congress)
Former slaves in America tell their stories.

Word for the Wise
Daily explanations of new words. (RealAudio Stream & Complete Text)

www.stonesoup.com (William Rubel)
A children's magazine for young people who love to read, write and draw.

z_ESL Streams (Ohio State University)
Stream the audio from many ESL books.
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Possibly at web.archive.org (..usually without the author's consent.):
web.archive.org/http://www.esl.ohio-state.edu/streams/

z_Favorite Poem Project Video Collection
Classic English Poems read on videos. Includes poem transcript. (RealVideo)
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Possibly at web.archive.org (..usually without the author's consent.):
web.archive.org/http://www.favoritepoem.org/thevideos/index.html

z_London Underground: How to use the Tube (And learn some English) (Kent Andersen)
7 Units of texts (full of humour), Requires Java and RealAudio.
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web.archive.org/http://lang.ots.dk/london/

z_Mainichi Daily News - Online Video Clips
Practice listening skills online. RealAudio
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web.archive.org/*/http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/videonews/

z_Mike's Dictations - Week #1 - Activity #1 (Mike McKay)
Listen to the RealAudio file. Write the sentence, then compare it to the answer.
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web.archive.org/http://intaneto.worldnetjapan.com/english/dictations/workbook/week1/activity1.html

z_Read Along with LA Times - Binocular Billy
See the text and listen to it (RealAudio)
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web.archive.org/http://www.latimes.com/features/kids/readingroom/la-et-sstory19oct19.story

z_Read Along with LA Times - The Pony Express
See the text and listen to John Bryan read it (RealAudio)
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web.archive.org/http://www.latimes.com/features/kids/readingroom/la-et-sstory9nov09.story

z_Texas Parks and Wildlife Webcasts
Videos designed for native English speakers. Real Player or Windows Media Player
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web.archive.org/http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/expltx/eft/archives.phtml

z_The Moonlit Road - Ghost Stories from the American South (Craig Dominey)
Read and hear the stories (using RealAudio).
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web.archive.org/http://www.themoonlitroad.com/featurestories001.asp

z_z_hiroshima-u.ac.jp's Virtual University
Video interviews (with high quality sound), exercises, pre-reading, ...
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web.archive.org/http://home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~teaman/vu/index-e.html

z_z_www.listeningexpress.net - New Concept English (Zhicheng Qian)
Text and (downloadable) RealAudio Files
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web.archive.org/http://www.listeningexpress.org/le/nce.htm



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