BBC podcasts

The site features high-quality BBC podcasts. You can download or listen online if you wish.

Voice of America

You can find not only the text version of the news, but also the audio version from Beginning to Advanced levels. At the end of the news column, the words “difficult” are presented with clear explanations.

British Council

Listening podcasts are available at all levels, starting with the Beginner A1 level. You can choose depending on your level. Click on "Transcript" to check the transcript of the podcast.

English e-Reader

New English learners need stories and audios of varying difficulty. This site features challenging stories and audios from Starter to Advanced. Most importantly, it's all free

Daily Dictation

Dictation is a method to learn languages by listening and writing down what you hear. This website contains hundreds of dictation exercises to help English learners practice easily and improve quickly.

English Listening

Listening is the natural way to learn a language. We offer a very easy way to learn English: Just listen and enjoy! It’s Free!

Oxford Online English

In this website, you can learn how you can improve your English listening. You’ll see simple, effective tips that anyone can use to improve their English listening skills.

SpeechYard

It is a perfect opportunity to expand language knowledge by means of educational entertainment. When you watch the video, just click on any word or select a phrase to see its translation, listen to it or add it for further learning.

English Central

EnglishCentral is the leading provider of online English conversation solutions. The EnglishCentral platform combines the web’s best English videos.

Lyrics Training

It is an easy and fun way to learn and improve your foreign languages skills, through the music videos and the lyrics of your favorite songs.

Player FM

If you have a smartphone, you can select a podcast that targets English Language Learners but if you have good listening skills, you can select a podcast among the thousands available on the web

Voscreen

Voscreen helps you improve your English language skills on your own through short video clips. Learning and improving English is more enjoyable than ever with Voscreen video learning environment.

ESLvideo.com

It provides educational resources for English as a Second Language Students to improve their listening, speaking, grammar, and vocabulary skills. The quiz activities and lessons are free.

Elllo

The aim of the site it to make learning English fun, effective, and free and to provide teachers and students with materials that you cannot find in traditional textbooks.

The Fable Cottage

In the English version of each story, you can hide the transcript or make it visible. Each story is 5 to 16 minutes long. It helps you work on understanding both main ideas and details through shadowing.

Storyline Online

Although this site was designed to develop literacy skills in children, it’s also great for mature English language learners, especially if your level is similar to American kindergarten to grade four.

ESL Fast

ESL Fast offers short stories with audio and text for intermediate students. It’s not the most beautiful website, but a good thing about it is the large number of stories available – and there are hundreds.

Lyrics Gaps

There`s an added google translate site where you can hover over a word in the lyrics, and it`ll translate the English word into multiple different languages. You can search for songs by difficult level.

TED Talks

The TED Talks website and app were created by TED (Technology, Education and Design). This is a non-profit organization that aims to share “ideas worth spreading.”

ESL Lounge

ESL Lounge is a website with a listening section that supplies listening comprehension exercises divided into four levels of difficulty, as well as a business English section.

Talk English

Talk English has listening lessons for basic, intermediate, and advanced levels. You can listen to a conversation, complete a multiple-choice quiz, and read a script of the audio.

Listen A Minute

On this site, which is for elementary to pre-intermediate students, you can select a listening lesson from almost 500 options according to topic, arranged alphabetically on the main page.

VOA Student Union

Now, you can also try Student Union from Voice of America, which is described as “news for students and youth worldwide.” This section is mostly written articles, but there are some are accompanied by related videos.

BBC Learning English

The BBC or British Broadcasting Corporation, has a website called Learning English that is dedicated to helping learners of English. You can search by level, but sadly you cannot search by media type.

Breaking News English

This website is packed full of news articles with accompanying audio that is read by Mr. Banville himself. His news lessons are available in up to seven levels, and he has a large variety of activities to go with each article.

Newsy

Newsy is another source of short video news segments about a variety of topics from business to entertainment, international to US news. Each video is posted with a transcript, giving you the choice to just listen, or listen and read.

NPR Podcasts & Shows

NPR (National Public Radio) has been on the radio back home and I’ve been listening since the invention of the radio. Fun, informative and diverse, it has a wealth of subject matter available from around the world.

Pod Academy

This site offers subjects link Humanities and Social Sciences, Science and Environment, Arts and Culture and Business and Economics.

iPodder

This site is a directory updated weekly with over 5000 podcasts in 30 different categories from Education to Shopping.

RADIOLAB

Another source from NPR.

Steve Hargadon

Steve Hargadon has put together a great wealth of info here for education. Great for all of you future teachers that I talk to on Facebook. Great for us working teachers too.

EDUTALK

Another great source for education material.

EdTechTalk

This is a bit older, not sure if they have made new posts since 2014, but very good for educators.

OPEN CULTURE

This seems to be an old site but it has a great collection of links to University and College podsites with free educational articles from the US.

SMART PEOPLE PODCAST

This has fun stuff for nerds. Smart people talking in big words about general subjects. Get your geek on and listen in.

HBR IdeaCast

For business learners, a free seat at the Harvard University Business School.

MARKETPLACE

More great casts for business learners.

DR PODCAST

A site for medical English.

NOVA

Nova was a series out of Boston that kept me glued to the TV as a young adult. Science and technology are two of the major themes.

Legal Talk Network

A site for legal English.

Car Talk

If you’re into cars, this is the show for you. You never know what they will talk about. Just to give you an idea that there is a source for everything and anything.

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast is by a comedian and might be good to try and learn from context. WTF, give it a try.

FluentU

FluentU makes authentic content approachable for students of any level. It takes authentic videos—like music videos, movie trailers, news and inspiring talks—and turns them into personalized language lessons.

Infosquares

If you have movie buffs in your classroom, they’re going to love this site. Made up of mostly comedy and drama clips, there are three pages of popular and obscure movie trailers sure to keep your students’ attention.

Listen and Write

Students find their respective starting level, then click on an audio title that grabs their attention. They’re then given four different options: full mode, quick mode, blank mode and correction mode.

EnglishClub

The exercises on this page are divided into three levels with increasingly longer excerpts of text: elementary, intermediate and advanced. Each level is then divided into categories.

5 Minute English

After selecting a topic that grabs their attention, students will find control options and a transcript below. There’s a short quiz following the activity. Students check their answers afterward and encourage them to improve.

Easy World Of English

EWE gives users clear instructions on how to tackle the texts successfully. Each level has 20 readings with an audio recording. After listening to the audio, there are three quizzes to choose from that increase in difficulty.

ESLKidsLab

This website features a plethora of audio memory games about a variety of topics that allow users to do just that. As the name of the site clearly states, it’s geared toward young learners.

StoryCorps

In this site, users can see an excerpt of the story and engaging pictures, as well as access the audio. I’d encourage listeners to try to understand as much as they can before looking at the transcript.

All Ears English

This is a podcast designed for American English learners. The description notes that it’s appropriate for intermediate to advanced students, and it covers topics that are geared toward adult professionals.

Lit2Go

Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. An abstract, citation, playing time, and word count are given for each of the passages.

ManyThings

ManyThings is a site which lists various listening exercises and games for language learners.

PlayPhraseme

PlayPhrase is a platform where students get to hear English phrases from over 300 movie clips and repeat what they hear.

RANDALL’S ESL CYBER LISTENING LAB

What I like about it is the post-listening activities and the vocabulary section where you can learn how to pronounce words associated to different topics.

Easy Listening for Kids

This website has short and easy listening audio tracks that are tailored to young learners. Each audio track comes with the text for reading, a vocabulary list, and exercises your young learners won’t have any trouble completing.

Language Guide

This is an online picture dictionary, with everything from the alphabet to parts of the body to farm animals.

LibriVox

There are a variety of audiobooks in English.

TOEIC TEST PRO

TOEIC TEST PRO is designed to help you practice and improve your TOEIC skills to well prepare for the exam. It helps you to improve English skills in general through a variety of grammar and vocabulary exercises.

Luke’s English Podcast

Luke’s English Podcast is an award-winning audio show for learners of English as a foreign language. There are now over 770 audio episodes, transcripts, videos, a special series on phrasal verbs.