My Favourite Youtube channels in English language


Nowdays many things can be learnt from YouTube.com web site absolutely free. This internet service has become a virtual university for million people. From my point of view it is a very helpful tool for improving English Listening skills, that can be used by anyone. To listen and to understand a foreign language speech is crucial and essential for any language learner. Morover there are a lot of different accents in English language in the United Kingdom itself and other English speaking countries. In addition some sounds in English are very strange for me as a Russian native speaker. And I suppose that many learners of English language from non-English speaking countries have the similar problem. Buy everybody can easily overcome these challenges everywhere and improve his/her Listening capabilities with the help of YouTube. I have been using it recent years for educational purposes. I would like to share my personal list of different youtube channels, that are interesting for me. I have not included here youtube channels, that specialize in teaching different aspects of English language itself. Common criterias for all of these channels are using English language as a main communication tool and using this language at the level of native speaker.

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Living in an English speaking country vs using italki.com


Everyone thinks about immersing in the English culture and language during a process of learning this foreign language. I guess there is little or no exception. This is specially important for people who would like to achive high level of fluency in English language. Proficiency in Speaking is one aspect that requires live interactions with native speakers. You can improve Listening, Reading and Writing of English in any spot on the Earth without direct face-to-face contacts with the help of modern technologies. For example, you can work on your Listening skills with the help of YouTube. Different Internet forums and online communitites give you a lot of opportunity to practice in writing on every day basis. As for me I like to share my opinion in English about interesting places worldwide on www.tripadvisor.com. Maybe even Speaking abilities can be now significantly improved with the help of the modern Internet technologies?

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