Academic listening skills: External links
The best way to improve your listening skills is to listen so this page lists a number of good online listening resources:
- TED
- Randall's Cyber Listening Lab
- Frontline: documentaries online in English
- Setting up a business: Listening practice from Southampton University
- BBC Radio 4
- elllo
- BBC podcasts
- Video nation
- Princeton University: Archived lectures online
- BBC Radio 4 Reith Lectures Collection
- Lectures with transcripts from Reading University, UK
- Patrick's lecture on Postwar Reconstruction and the Welfare State. It’s designed as a lecture for international students for practice in following a lecture in English. No previous topic knowledge is required. (The production is not a professional one!) The power point slides are here and the lecture is here.