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.