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This pared-down website offers grammar quizzes at multiple degrees of difficulty and for learners from dozens of different language backgrounds.

ESL teacher Dave Sperling’s in-depth site provides numerous lessons about sentence structure, word use, and more.

The OWL is a wonderful repository of practice sheets and linguistic primers for learners at all levels.

handy reference guide to major parts of speech and their usage, with bonus material for ESL instructors.

These English lessons are broken up into five-minute chunks and by skill level, so you can get a quick lesson whenever you can fit it in.

Listen to stories and read along with them by following the highlighted word. Hear pronunciation and intonation while getting a better grasp on sentence structure.

Get English-learning tips and learn about questions that appear on the TOEFL test.

With this Voice of America channel, you can hear news and feature stories in American English, but spoken 33% slower than normal to make it easier to follow along.

This resource from the British channel offers all kinds of lessons and tips for learning English, including pronunciation, vocab, and grammar lessons.

There are dozens of key phrases on this site complete with audio clips to help ESL students practice clear pronunciation.

This site helps ESL students learn conversational phrases by listening to audio recordings and completing accompanying exercises.

Though this site is aimed at kiddos, anyone trying to get a grasp on English spelling and speaking will find its games fun and useful.

This site offers a wealth of resources to help ESL students learn English vocabulary. Lessons include recorded audio listening quizzes on a variety of topics and in various skill levels, 20-minute vocabulary lessons and longer conversations with video.

These audio lessons cover basic vocabulary for a variety of everyday situations, including office life.

In the student section of this forum, you can read famous quotations, work your way through novels in English, and do interactive language exercises to understand the written English language better.

This browser-based tool lets you study thousands of words, create your own flash cards, and sort cards based on category and learner language.