Esl-lab - http://www.esl-lab.com/ - helps you both in listening and doing quiz.
Esl-lab is the website collecting listening exercises and quizzes for those who want to practice and test their own English listening skill. The listening exercises are divided into various levels including Easy - Medium - Hard, as well as issues of life/ academic learning. Therefore, it is easy to find posts that are suitable for your level and your preference.
The most interesting thing is that there are parts about grammar guides or proposing discussion topics below each listening post.
However, do not only focus on favorite topics. There are a lot of different topics in English exams and some of which you may not like; hence, practice several types of topics may be beneficial for your exams.
Trainyouraccent- http://www.trainyouraccent.com/ - Resource of English materials with multi-accents
When studying abroad, you will realize that everyone has his/ her own accent while speaking English, from Indian accent of a driver to Malaysian accent of a friend, or a voice on the radio, even a native's voice coming from other region.
Therefore, practice listening to many different accents before studying abroad will help you easily integrate with new living space. It is also a way to recognize some points you should pay attention in your own - English - speaking- accent to modify, if necessary.
At the page trainyouraccent, you will be trained in both listening skill and practicing pronunciation based on specific themes in life. Topics can be very various from cooking to part-time job, family life, or school, etc.
Besides, below each listening post are the relevant questions for discussion. For example, with listening post about restaurant, you will be asked to describe your most favorite one, and explain the reason why you like it or search comments on the Internet about a restaurant in the place where you live and then provide found information to your friends.
To sum up, this website has a lot of interesting listening posts spoken by many people from non-English speaking countries.
Elllo - http://www.elllo.org/ - online listening library
Elllo could be considered as an electronic library with over 2000 listening posts published on the website. Each section has a different activity. In the "View" section, each listening post allows you to learn new words, answer multiple choice questions and download the posts to your computer. However, the posts for listening in this section do not have typescripts to prevent you from looking around while listening. Similarly, "Video" section focuses on specific topics and questions, and it also consists of multiple choice questions to help you develop reading comprehension skills.
Eslfast- http://www.eslfast.com/eslread/ - for both practicing listening and studying culture and personage
If you are interested in American culture, you should not ignore the section about 100 listening posts/ small texts presenting about 100 American people you should know. These posts are not too long and they are published with the accompanied texts, which helps you both in listening and reading comprehension.
If you like to listen to conversations about problems in studying abroad (going to library, renting a department, changing school, shopping and travelling), ''Robot" is the section you should access. However, these conversations are very short and easy, so they will be suitable for beginners.
If you want to listen to longer texts with more difficult vocabularies, Eslread is a good choice for you.
An article for each week with English Club
On every Tuesday, English Club posts an audio about a recent issue (the latest post published on April 28th 2015 was about the earthquake in Nepal). The listening posts are regarded to be suitable for beginning or starting levels.
The interesting thing here is that you will both listen and fill the missing words, answer comprehension questions by typing completed answers and discussing related questions.
Before listening, you could be familiar to vocabularies relating to the post's content. In case your vocabulary of a specific topic is not rich enough for you to understand the listening post, click at Listening News of English Club and choose among a lot of articles.
Television channels, international radio channel
When discussing with people who have high IELTS listening score, "listening radio and television" is always shared. According to them, listening radio helps you get topical information, various topics, and useful general knowledge without being limited to your proficiency.
Some useful pages for you to follow:
Translated by Thuong Ngoc
(Source: http://www.hotcourses.vn/study-abroad-info/study-guides/nhung-website-huu-ich-de-luyen-ki-nang-nghe-listening/)
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