Learning the Language through Movies. Listen to the Dialogs from the Famous Movies: - "You've Got Mail" with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan; - "Maid in Manhattan" with Jennifer Lopez; - "The Recruit" with Colin Farrell and Al Pacino; - "Casablanca" with Humphry Bogart; - "Some Like it Hot" with Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. - "Heat" with Robert DeNiro; - ''The Graduate'' with Dustin Hoffman; - "Cabaret". There are also exercises in the course. Some of them are in Russian.
Those podcasts, which are created by an ESL teacher, tell you an interesting story in everyday life in each episode. Each podcast is about 3 to 4 minutes in length, so you can listen to it quickly from your player whenever you have free time to practise your listening skill.
In The American English Pronunciation Podcast, Mandy offers weekly lessons covering the most common and difficult English pronunciation issues of adults living and working in the United States, as well as ESL students everywhere. More informal pronunciation patterns are discussed, which makes the podcast equal parts "pronunciation" and "accent reduction". Mandy tells you the pronunciations you are actually hearing around you, not just the perfect "dictionary pronunciation."
Twenty years ago, Allie Denty was the pretty one and her best friend Olivia Pelham was the smart one. Throughout high school, they were inseparable…until a vicious rumor about Olivia— a rumor too close to the truth—ended their friendship.
Now, on the eve of their twentieth high school reunion, Allie, a temp worker, finds herself suddenly single, a little chubby, and feeling old. Olivia, a cool and successful magazine beauty editor in New York, realizes she’s lonely, and is finally ready to face her demons.
Those podcasts are designed for intermediate - advanced English learners to improve their listening skill. Each episode, which is about 5 minutes in length, is about a specific topic or about a funny strange thing in the English language. 'RoPe' is the combinations of the two hosts' names - Roger and Peter. 'RoPe' also means the rope that helps you learning English. Just listen to the podcasts in your free time to develop your listening skill bit by bit freely.