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Linguist Rick Aschmann spent years creating this painstakingly detailed map of regional American and Canadian dialects. Aschmann has been steadily adding to it as people from all over the U.S. send him audio samples of themselves speaking. In addition to the videos people send him, Aschmann says he made the map from information he found on several language websites, from the Atlas of North American English, and also by watching a lot of online videos of people who he says retain their local dialect well, like politicians, gospel singers and NASCAR drivers.

Learn Greek Online provides free online courses in both Modern and Ancient Greek, from beginner to advanced levels. User registration is required to access the materials (in a Moodle learning environment), which consist of audio files and complementary lecture notes which illustrate and practice particular grammatical structures and develop vocabulary. An online Greek-English and English-Greek dictionary, and a Greek spell checker are also available here. Updates to the site are listed, and feedback is invited. The site also features a user discussion forum, where difficulties with the Greek language, as well as using the website, are discussed. All in all, this site should provide learners of Greek with useful practice material.

The Internet Poetry Archive is a multimedia resource that aims to bring contemporary poetry to a larger audience and to offer new ways of teaching and studying such poems. The project contains selected works by: Philip Levine; Robert Pinsky; Yusef Komunyakaa; Margaret Walker; Richard Wilbur; Seamus Heaney; and Czeslaw Milosz. The poems are presented in their original languages as well as in English translation, and are accompanied by authors' comments. Poems and comments are also accessible as audio files, and a critical biography and brief bibliography is provided for each poet

The website of the British organisation, Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies (WISPS), provides information about their aims, conferences, seminars, and members. The organization is a group of women colleagues working within all areas of Luso-Hispanism, such as feminist theory, history, cultural memory, literature, linguistics, cultural and textual theory, audio and film studies, performance studies, anthropology, geography, queer theory and theatre studies

Audio demo per la ricerca con operatore NOT (-) e per la site search filtrata per dominio con GOOGLE

The webpage is part of a larger site published and compiled by Margo Burns, who has worked on the University of Virginia Salem witchcraft trials etext project. This site provides hundreds of annotated links to resources on seventeenth century USA. The links are arranged by subject to ease searches and include: archaeological exploration of the period; audio programmes on relevant topics; daily life; images and facsimiles; Native American Indians; and Increase and Cotton Mather. Burns is good when writing in the field of her expertise, which is the Salem trials for witchcraft and there are several good documents on the site.

Argentine contemporary literature: texts and national authors' biographies, pictures, biographies, and audio files in addition to special numbers, interactive stories, and chat. Intermediate through advanced. AP recommended.

Information about various authors and their literary works which were inspired by events and people in colonial New England -- among them, Arthur Miller (The Crucible) and Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlett Letter and "Young Goodman Brown"). The webpage is part of a larger site published and compiled by Margo Burns, who has worked on the University of Virginia Salem witchcraft trials etext project. This site provides hundreds of annotated links to resources on seventeenth century USA. The links are arranged by subject to ease searches and include: archaeological exploration of the period; audio programmes on relevant topics; daily life; images and facsimiles; Native American Indians; and Increase and Cotton Mather. Burns is good when writing in the field of her expertise, which is the Salem trials for witchcraft and there are several good documents on the site.

The Universal Teacher website provides numerous resources for those teaching English literature, language and theatre studies at school and sixth-form levels in the UK. The site is approved by byteachers.com and adheres to the national curriculum as taught and examined. There are good online tutorials for specific texts, grouped according to level, including: Key Stage; GCSE; and A-Level standards. There are also sections for students with special educational needs, and teaching with ITC. Topics covered by tutorials include: researching dialects; language and gender; language change; Shakespeare's plays; Charles Dickens; Jonathan Swift; Arthur Miller; Thomas Hardy; Charlotte Brontë; John Steinbeck; Jane Austen; Geoffrey Chaucer; Ted Hughes; William Blake; Robert Browning; and popular films such as Forrest Gump and Star Wars. The site includes audio files of poetry, and various study guides.

The website of the Scottish Poetry Library (SPL) allows serious students, regular readers, and casual browsers access to contemporary poetry written in Scotland - in Scots, Gaelic, or English -- historic Scottish verse and poetry from most parts of the world. Contained here is an online catalogue (INSPIRE) of SPL resources, which includes books, periodicals, audio and video recordings and news cuttings, and the Scottish Poetry Index that allows users to search via author, title and subject for poetry material in twenty Scottish magazines from 1952

This free site features public lectures, teaching material, interviews with leading academics, information about applying to the University, and much more.

Pagina FB di CC Prose, una audioteca digitale con lettura di classici della letteratura inglese sincronizzati con il testo degli originali. Risorsa ideale per esercizi di reading e listening.

The almost seven hours of recorded interviews presented here took place between 1932 and 1975 in nine Southern states. Twenty-three interviewees, born between 1823 and the early 1860s, discuss how they felt about slavery, slaveholders, coercion of slaves, their families, and freedom. Several individuals sing songs, many of which were learned during the time of their enslavement. It is important to note that all of the interviewees spoke sixty or more years after the end of their enslavement, and it is their full lives that are reflected in these recordings. The individuals documented in this presentation have much to say about living as African Americans from the 1870s to the 1930s, and beyond.

The BBC Poetry Out Loud Web page, part of the BBC Arts website, provides a small and varied collection of recordings of poets reading their own works.

Rosie helps you practise English listening. Every day she sends audio via messenger in English.