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Extensive language website hosted by BBC. Visitors can choose what language they are interested in learning and learn essential phrases. This site would be useful for a librarian to learn basic phrases in order to initiate a conversation with an ESL patron.

Features dozens of audio clips of people from across America and Canada reading the same phrase. This site can be used to teach students about how accents can affect pronounciation. Also includes pheonitc transcription. Students may also find that listening to audio clips of English phrases spoken by Europeans may be applicable/useful to their situation.

Information about "Indian English", which is the result of Indian speakers using English terms and combining them to make regional phrases and dialect.

An interactive website that allows visitors to learn another language and try their skills on native speakers. Members of this website speak a combined total of 109 different languages.