VOA: English in a Minute (January 2016 - 5 Episodes)
Looking for ways to improve your listening skills and learn English idioms? Check out Voice of America's English in a Minute and listen to brief video clips that explain American English colloquialisms.
BBC Lingohack (January 2016 - 4 Episodes) Listen to and watch authentic BBC World news bulletins and learn key words and phrases that help you make sense of the news. Each episode is accompanied by a PDF file including transcript, words and phrases and definitions , and exercise.
Parrot Time is a bi-monthly magazine covering language, linguistics and culture of the world around us. Issue 19 January / February 2016: Letter From The Editor - Making it Happen | Motivation - Expressing oneself and the expression of oneself in language learning | Motivation Killers in Learning a Language | Mixing Languages and Relationships | In Others' Words - Brian Powers | At the Cinema - Cutting Room Floor | Languages in Peril - Cyprus' Language Revival Approach Problem | Where Are You? | At A Glance
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, cartoons, satire and poetry published by Conde Nast Publications. Starting as a weekly in the mid-1920s, the magazine is now published 47 times per year, with five of these issues covering two-week spans. Although its reviews and events listings often focus on cultural life of New York City, The New Yorker has a wide audience outside of New York and USA.
