WNYC is a public radio station in New York City. In addition to running a major radio station, WNYC Studios features 60+ podcasts on a wide range of […]
“Marketplace” podcasts
Whether you are interested in economies, personal finance, business, inequality, social and political movements, or how money impacts our daily lives, the Marketplace suite of podcasts has an […]
Phrases to get things done in English: Imber’s Verbal Stratagems
This simple and easy-to-use Verbal Stratagems website offers a robust collection of phrases for specific purposes, such as agreeing, checking for understanding, expressing gratitude, or making a suggestion. […]
Podcast: Cache Chat
Cache Chat is a conversational podcast hosted by two undergraduate Computer Science (CS) students at Clemson University. The Cache Chat hosts use informal language to explain CS concepts, […]
Writing for Law School
CALI, the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction, offers hundreds of online lessons and tutorials, many of which focus on writing in legal genres. Because legal writing organization, logical […]
“Got a minute?” Scientific American’s podcast offers one every day.
Do you want to work on vocabulary, fluency, pitch range, or interpreting technical content to a lay audience Scientific American is a long-established magazine that publishes articles on […]
MICASE Corpus of spoken English on campus
MICASE is a searchable collection or “corpus” of the transcripts of real-life spoken language on the University of Michigan campus. Most of the audio files are available for […]
Watch TedTalks, prepare for TOEFL, and catch up on your favorite TV show, all while learning English on VoiceTube
Thanks to guest contributor Emmanuel Orozco Castellanos for this review of VoiceTube. Do you spend a considerable amount of time watching videos, movies, and TV shows? It’s not […]
MICUSP corpus of written academic papers
MICUSP, the Michigan Corpus of Upper-level Student Papers, is composed of papers with a grade of A from the University of Michigan written for upper undergraduate and early […]
Use “Just The Word” to find phrases that sound great
Just The Word is a powerful tool for figuring out how a word patterns with other words: what are possible grammatical phrase structures for a word, and what […]