Tips for English Learners: 

Site suggestions to improve your English:

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  Top Documentary Films

Excerpt from this site:

  http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/

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Open Yale:

"All lectures were recorded in the Yale College classroom and are available in video, audio, and text transcript format."  

"Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn.

Open Yale Courses reflects the values of a liberal arts education. Yale's philosophy of teaching and learning begins with the aim of training a broadly based, highly disciplined intellect without specifying in advance how that intellect will be used. This approach goes beyond the acquisition of facts and concepts to cultivate skills and habits of rigorous, independent thought: the ability to analyze, to ask the next question, and to begin the search for an answer.

We hope the lectures and other course materials on this site will be a resource for critical thinking, creative imagination, and intellectual exploration. All lectures were recorded in the Yale College classroom and are available in video, audio, and text transcript format. Registration is not required and no course credit is available."

http://oyc.yale.edu/

--------------------- BBC Podcasts

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts

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Fora TV

The World is Thinking

Lectures, Interviews....

Simply outstanding !!!

http://fora.tv/

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Paid Services on the Internet

Subscription suggestions 

Get a subscription at www.questia.com and do tons of research anywhere you can take your laptop.

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Audible.com  www.audible.com

You can download these books onto your ipod and listen to them while you commute or during your free time at home.

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You may buy pdf magazines  about psychology, education and other issues at Scientific American Mind:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/sciammind/

You may also subscribe to Scientific American and you use their search machine, which is restricted to subscribers, to do research in neurosciences/education and download articles in pdf format. You can get all of this by paying one single fee per year (Scientific American Mind issues are not included in this subscription, you will still have to buy them separately)

http://www.scientificamerican.com/subscribe/combo_sciam.cfm?lsource=topnav_sciam

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The Economist, Audio edition:

The audio edition contains word-for-word recordings of all articles published in The Economist, read by professional broadcasters and actors. It is ideal for anyone who wants to listen to articles while travelling, exercising or just relaxing.

http://www.economist.com/audioedition/

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Tips for English Learners: 

Voice of America (VOALearningEnglish) 

"A news and information service used by English learners and teachers worldwide. Reports are written in VOA Special English, which is read one-third slower than regular English. VOA Special English programs are broadcast online, on radio and on TV. "

http://www.youtube.com/user/VOALearningEnglish

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The Economist Audio and Video 

http://audiovideo.economist.com/

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BBC Radio 4

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/

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