If you're searching for language conversation partners online. The largest sites are www.mylanguageexchange.com and www.livemocha.com but some other good ones include www.languageexchange.org, www.conversationexchange.com www.sharedtalk.comand www.italki.com

Free video courses.

betteratenglish.
http://www.betteratenglish.com/videos/

privateenglishportal.(Phrasal verbs)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=886hLlkwipI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qzd7zNt-qA&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7kftdmgvBY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1bw_manHJw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqKGAg0YFlo&feature=relmfu

privateenglishportal (idioms)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBhfw-b6Ubg&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWfHZkrA_Zg&feature=relmfu

podenglish.
http://www.youtube.com/user/podEnglish?feature=watch#p/c/ECDB3ECC0AF0E938/52/QJP72OwZZPM
http://www.youtube.com/user/podEnglish?feature=watch#p/c/ECDB3ECC0AF0E938/53/2pmn6hYU8tI
http://www.youtube.com/user/podEnglish?feature=watch#p/c/ECDB3ECC0AF0E938/54/ZuQxcI473wI

learnenglishlive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emBCa_aB0Rw&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd4Gtmy8e8s&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVBQWgLobcg&feature=relmfu

Peppy English Pronunciation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek6jV2CiKtY&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=SP99AD0EB3EFC5C338
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6Y7k2I6XDI&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DniS53RrZZg&feature=related

Free video course.
http://www.youtube.com/user/podEnglish?feature=watch#p/c/ECDB3ECC0AF0E938/0/nTSl4DuwJVk

Free online courses ranging from elementary all the way up to advanced level. All you have to do is registering!

http://www.englishtown.es/online/home.aspx

PHRASAL VERBS EXPOSED!

http://www.phrasalverbdemon.com/grammar.htm

JUUUUUUUUUUUIIIICY BLOG!

http://robert-esl.blogspot.com/2008/01/listening-comprehension.html

b2 A great page if you're into giving your bit a touch of slangy coolness

http://www.ezslang.com/

A bit more A1 listening practice
http://esl.about.com/od/listening/Beginning_Level_English_Listening_Comprehension_Exercises.htm

Check out the customers' reviews. Step Across This Line or Notes form a Big Country?

http://www.amazon.com/Step-Across-This-Line-Nonfiction/dp/0679463348

http://www.amazon.com/Notes-Big-Country-Bill-Bryson/dp/0552997862/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1321613496&sr=1-1

kinetic typography!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeQ8lgExcNU&feature=related
http://vimeo.com/15412319
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF8f8w6HPoo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q_SHlu9haw&feature=related

Do you think slide shows are a good way of presenting information? If you do, this is probably a tool you'll enjoy using.

http://www.slideshare.net/vrevert2/word-order-of-phrasal-verbs
http://www.slideshare.net/titxer/gerund-or-infinitive-presentation
http://www.slideshare.net/nessita77/adjectives-followed-by-prepositions
http://www.slideshare.net/bizpod/video-vocab-04-law-1-basic-legal-terms
http://www.slideshare.net/Elenag77/the-language-of-headlines

Visual aid and excercises to learn new vocabulary.
http://www.learningchocolate.com/

This is a useful set of questions to get you reflecting on your own learning process and help you start devising your plans.

http://www.learnenglish.de/strategypage.htm

THE ALPHABET!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpIhzFh0yw8


NUMBERS!!!
1 to 10 (John John)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoNskJVK2YA
1 to 20 ( John John)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scu9zzC5U3g&feature=relmfu
1 to 12 (Sesame Street pinball song)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZshZp-cxKg
1 to 9 (DJ Premier)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SgvvH6wfRU

ALPHABET, NUMBERS AND NOTES!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-aSjHnbw18&feature=related
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/a-b-c-lyrics-the-jackson-5/ba0857d1dbd0c97c48256a8c0020c9e8

For hip hop lovers who struggle daily to unfathom the seemingly unfathomable! Make sense out of the sometimes marvelously creative twististry of rhymes.

http://rapgenius.com

For those of you interested in amateur film-making and getting good quality clips, be them music video clips or otherwise.
http://www.vimeo.com

Johnny Cash. An old school artist that luckily got to have a horde of different admirers at the end of his life. This video is a monument to honesty.

The song , which was originally written by Trent Reznor, was the inspiration for a video that made a whole lot of young people rave about a 70 year old artist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YizGd_bVEVk&feature=related

Song lyrics

http://www.lyrics007.com/Johnny%20Cash%20Lyrics/Hurt%20Lyrics.html

Interviews with Trent Reznor and Johhny Cash.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlzjqPGdOSM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLjskiusfMo&feature=related

9 minute documentary about the end of Cash's life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6klx6ViCYsw

I realized it might be possible to actually see these writers having a goat what they do best: using words. True, They are novelists, not orators and some writers feel oddly ill at ease when confronted with spoken word.

Martin Amis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw0QwZpUiT8

Kazuo Ishiguro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=batJu1ypW-Y

Salman Rushdie (very juicy stuff; indepth exploration of the issue of a variety of issues. This interview doesn't really have much to do with the author's novels):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc60ro81dIw

Ian McEwan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc60ro81dIw

Esther Freud (the authors interviews the author of Beirut Blues)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddxVtrqfxjs&feature=related

Hanif Kureishi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzYMGkmkv_g

Rose Tremain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx3M7Kn-EME

Will Self
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-dBLO-Zn4g

Ben Okri
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orNNO90R-JI

Philip Kerr
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlTyoygUTII

The new enfant terrible of Scottish comedy (Not for political correctness adherers!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvOQxeQKrdw

A classic (between-bracket-warning still applies): Billy Connoly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDhETFcgWTE&feature=related

A bit of Scottish fun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kuZICFk_is

Mr. Foul-Mouthed Scott vs. Mr. Razor Sharp Big Words
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebviKewRtvc&feature=related

I got this info from a short essay Salman Rushdie wrote in 1993. Those of you who are into reading might get at least half as excited as I did when you lay your eyes on the lists, which obviously are not exhaustive but allow for quite a cluster of talented individuals.

In the early eighties these guys were given the weight label 'Best of Young British Novelists'. If Mr Salman Rushdie doesn't remember who were the bunch of literary critics who decided those and not other were the names and surnames on the lists, it is maybe not that important after all. Or maybe it is...

...I' ll try n google it...

Alright. The list was published in the literary magazine GRANTA, whose editor is Bill Bufford (Mr Rushdie did of course mentioned that further below. Why didn't I bother reading a bit further?) Anyway, here are the twenty writers:

Martin Amis, Pat Barker, Julian Barnes, Ursula Bentley, William Boyd, Buchi Emecheta, Maggie gee, Kazuo Ishiguro, Alan Judd, Adam Mars-jones, Ian McEwan, Shiva Naipaul, Philip Norman, Christopher Priest, Salman Rushdie, Clive Sinclair, Lisa St Aubin de Teran, Graham Swift, Rose Tremain and E.N. Wilson.

In 1990's list included the following word weavers:

Ian Bands, Louis de Bernieres, Anne Billson, Tibot Fischer, Esther Freud, Allan Hollinghurst, Kazuo Ishiguro, A. L. Kennedy, Philip KErr, Hanif Kureishi, Adam Lively, Adam Mars-Jones, Candia MacWilliams, Lawrence Norfolk, Ben Okri, Caryl Phillips, Will Self, Nicholas Shakespeare, Helen Simpson and Jeanette Winterson

One of the most respected English language experts. He doesn't sound like your average ivory tower dweller, though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7WSzxQ0nX4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihx5B8vkaQA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8qOC6PJGvA&feature=fvwrel

Morgan Freeman short interview clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3cGfrExozQ&feature=related

Excellent video with a fairly unlikely intro!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spBiWsgJOd4

MIA flies like paper, gets high like planes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sei-eEjy4g&feature=related

Free film transcripts!!!
http://www.script-o-rama.com/table.shtml

Excellent tips, excercises and explanations.
http://www2.elc.polyu.edu.hk/CILL/default4.htm
http://www2.elc.polyu.edu.hk/CILL/eiw/complaint_letter_constructor.htm

Two amazing resources to get familiar with new vocab and explore the stunning world of synonymy.
http://thesaurus.com/
http://flashcards.dictionary.com/study/deck/5/reason-and-intention-logic-practice-quiz/

Great resource to practice listening and to learn new vocab.
http://www.esl-lab.com
http://esl-lab.com/review/review.htm
http://www.esl-lab.com/vocab/v-movies.htm

he remembered having once reflected upon the possibility of humans living like humans. there might have been a chance. some tribes had once truly believed in a pre-existing being, incomparable to anything real, endophoric to creation. an ironically centring exophora. this sole idea had made it possible to act humanely. they had feared the consequences of their injustices even if they were all essentially forgetful beings. some had lived hoping for an afterlife reward for their good actions. a few believed their lives were presents and followed a path set by their tenacious wills to be decent people.

an originator of duality and contradiction, possibility and opposition? modern notions of history and science din t seem to allow for such an entity.

the fleeting idea of a being setting everything in motion or even surveying the unfolding of events in the universe was made more approachable by the existence of messengers; some were charlatans, others were unveilers.

our boy, though, was of a third kind. No categories could really be applied to him.

Some more Q TV interviews.

Margaret Atwood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQkuMe2-X3Y&feature=related
Morgan Freeman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoKea_49v3I
MIA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaK0YBA8Lss
Leonard Cohen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugh8Xe6hX7U
Neil Young
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYwK6VhGTOw&feature=channel

Here's a few interviews with British artists and bands that have made good records in the last few years. Interestingly enough, they are all related somehow.

martina topley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJurmhJBCO4
tricky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po7cGTJXPU8
massive attack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9FI02XMOow
portishead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ--FwGRtNc
gorillaz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH0HlTloXHI

Here's an essay by Evelyn Glennie in which she discusses deafness and how it is widely misunderstood.

http://www.evelyn.co.uk/hearing_essay.aspx

Here's an essay by Evelyn Glennie in which she discusses deafness and how it is widely misunderstood.

http://www.evelyn.co.uk/hearing_essay.aspx

Here's an essay by Evelyn Glennie in which she discusses deafness.

http://www.evelyn.co.uk/hearing_essay.aspx

Here's an esay by Evelyn Glennie in which she discusses deafness.

http://www.evelyn.co.uk/hearing_essay.aspx

See what you think about this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElD40niJrio