On this page you can find links to applications, tutorials and other resources that are useful and hopefully fun to practice with on your own.
E-readers
E-readers
Kobo (iOS & Android) is an digital bookstore. You can go to this application on PCs, iOS (Apple) or Android devices.
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iBooks (iOS), Kindle (iOS & Android) and Nook (iOS & Android) are big pay online bookstores that also offer many free titles as well.
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Google books (iOS & Android) is yet another digital bookstore.
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Free Books (iOS & Android) is an application that organizes over 23000 free digital books into a one place that you can click and read any title.
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IReadability (iOS & Android) is an application that gives recommendations for online articles and only the article without any confusing tabs and buttons
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Apps that recommend books and articles that match your interest
Goodreads (iOS & Android) is a book recommendation site that can give you ideas for books that match your interests after you rate 20 or more books you have read in the past. This can be great for extensive reading practices.
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Feedly (iOS & Android) recommends online articles that fit your interest. This is good for intensive reading practices.
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Audiobooks
Librovox (iOS & Android) is an extensive library of free audiobooks that are read by volunteers from around the world. This application only has audio but you can control the speed of the reader.
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English Audiobooks (iOS & Android) is free audiobook reader that has the text of the original book so you can read along with the original text of the audiobook.
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Training applications
Elevate (iOS & Elevate) is a really fun brain training application that lets you practice your speaking, writing reading and listening skills. This is a free application with a pay option for more levels , but the free level has plenty to practice with.
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Acceleread (iOS) is a reading training application tha thelps you practice comprehension, speed and vocabulary. This is also a free application with a pay option for more training, but the free level has plenty to do.
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Boba (iOS)is a search engine application that let's you do speed reading single word wording with online articles.
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Speech to text readers
Voice Dream Reader (iOS) is an application that can read any book or website or anything this you can find on that will read the text out loud to you. The voice is digital but pretty realistic. The text will be highlighted as it is being read aloud and you can buy additional dialects of English voices.
Pronunciation
Smalltalk Mouth stretches are one simple warm up that language learners can do on their own; stretches that are much like what you would do for your legs before running. ‘Oral Motor Exercises,’ ‘Phonemes’ and ‘Consonant Blends.’
SpeakingPal is a more advanced version of something you would see in a language lab. The application has multiple scenarios that the user interacts with by reading and recording responses that are rated for accuracy.
SpeakAP works on both Apple and Android products. The application is free but has fees for the more involved levels. sentences of speech.
Smalltalk Mouth stretches are one simple warm up that language learners can do on their own; stretches that are much like what you would do for your legs before running. ‘Oral Motor Exercises,’ ‘Phonemes’ and ‘Consonant Blends.’
SpeakingPal is a more advanced version of something you would see in a language lab. The application has multiple scenarios that the user interacts with by reading and recording responses that are rated for accuracy.
SpeakAP works on both Apple and Android products. The application is free but has fees for the more involved levels. sentences of speech.
Vocabulary