THE ONE AND ONLY APP I PREFER ON ENGLISH LEARNING
You don't have to collect all kinds of English oriented APP to learn English well. It doesn't matter whether you have dozens of APP or just one, the only thing matters is that you have the right one and start with it right away.
Instead of keeping lots of apps in store but never touch them, I would rather have just one and visit it frequently for more than 30 mins every day. Here is the app I strongly recommend named Daily English Listening. Not sure what it is? Well, I am sure you may come across its icon when you are in search of English learning APP on website.
Abundant listening resources are available here and I would like to show you what it has and what you could do with this.
LEARNING ENGLISH VIA SONGS
Lots of English songs, video or audio, are within your search and reach. It has the lyrics available as a music app does, moreover, some of the materials may show you the background and further illustration of the lyrics, and even teach you how to get the pronunciation right. You could also add the new word into the word list, which you could not do in any other music app. What's more interesting, you could find some English edition of Chinese songs, cool, isn't it.
PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION
If you wanna have improvement on pronunciation, materials produced by Mr. Monster is the last thing you should miss.
He will show you how important the relationship is between listening and pronunciation. And he will teach you how to pronounce it perfectly in person.
Choose the right materials based on whether you would like to learn British English or America English.
Here are the materials for British English learner.
Here are the resources for you learning America English.
SHARPENING YOUR LISTENING ABILITY VIA ENGLISH FM
The most challenging listening material for learners is broadcasting program. They are for native speaks for daily information so the speed will be quite normal for foreigners but not for you from the very beginning. And it has no text, which renders it more difficult for us. However, the most effective way to sharpen your ears to English is to listen what the foreigners listen as if you were a native speaker, then you could develop their mode of thinking, get used to the speed of their conversations, and know how they pronounce and their words sound.
In this app, there are programs concerning news, music, talk show and culture for your choice.
IMITATING THE WAY FOREIGNERS SPEAK ENGLISH VIA MOVIES & TV SERIES
Follow the clips and you will know how the conversation moves on in daily life. Dialogues in film and television is the form close to the daily spoken English we have. And that's why it will be the most suitable materials for spoken English learning.
GETTING TO KNOW ENGLISH LITERATURE VIA EARS
I am afraid that not everyone may have the time and patience to sit down for a masterpiece in English literature. But the audio English literature in this app makes literature friendly and easygoing to you.
WATCHING ENGLISH VIDEO ON SCIENCE TOPIC OR DOCUMENTARY TO SEE HOW THINGS ARE ILLUSTRATED AND DESCRIBED IN ENGLISH
If you want to learn how to describe something in English or give it an exact illustration, my advice for you is that watch more videos on science topics or documentaries where they show you what something is all about.
WATCHING TALK SHOW OR SPEECH TO SEE HOW STORIES ARE TOLD AND HOW TO MAKE PERSUASIVE ARGUMENT
People talk about something by telling stories and arguing to get conclusions in talk show and speech. They are good story tellers and persuaders. So you know what to learn via their videos.
HAVING AN FOREIGN TUTOR TO GUIDE YOU THROUGH ENGLISH LEARNING
There are lots of videos by foreigners here, teaching you all kinds of ways to learn English, showing you their attitude or idea on something new, talking about something attractive in daily life, etc.
CATCHING UP WITH ALL KINDS OF ENGLISH TESTS
Wanna get listening materials for tests like CET6, TEM8, IELTS, or TOFEL, come here and you will have what you want.
LEARNING ENGLISH WITH SYSTEMATIC TEACHING MATERIALS
Choose one, and the journey of English learning with positive guidance is unfolding itself right in front of you.
ACCUMULATING VOCABULARY
You can enlarge your vocabulary by watching special videos by VOA, recall words with your eyes closed, and get the words with similar or related meanings memorized together.
READING SOMETHING ENLIGHTENING AND INSPIRING AND SHADOWING IT
Find short sentences that could keep your spirit high to shadow, and you are going to witness your progress on pronunciation and spoken English.
IMPROVING SPOKEN ENGLISH IN WORKPLACE
Business English will take up almost 60% of daily English in workplace. The sentences concerned are brief and exact since conciseness and accuracy is what business English requires.
HUMANIZED FUNCTIONS OF THE APP
STOP TIMER
Sometimes you want the audio to stop automatically, for example, you want to listen until you fall into sleep, or you don't bother to turn it off when time's up. Then go set a timer for yourself.
VOCABULARY DICTIONARY
You could get the new word checked every time you come across something strange to you. It is incredible to find that you could have the vocabulary pronounced when you give it a click. Then you could get it into your word list for later review. But you can get the above three steps done at a time if you have these three items selected.
WORD LIST FOR REVIEW
Visit your word list often and you will get more familiar with each one you collect before. Review the vocabularies stored in different days according to the rule of memorization. Pick it up timely when you are about to leave it behind.
RECOMMENDER FOR LISTENING MATERIALS
Choose the actual level of English suitable for you, then the system will have something new for you every day as recommendation in the home page.
TIMEKEEPING RECORD
Set a goal of duration you would like to have on English listening and let the system show you how far away you are from your goal and how much more you have done besides your goal. It is kind of inspiring and helpful.
LISTENING REMINDER
Set an alarm for daily listening task. Choose the time fixed, and the materials you enjoy and allow the system to remind you to do it as a routine every day.
DICTATION
Get what you hear written down. Then you know whether you have got it clear enough to take the notes.
SHADOWING
You could keep repeating the single sentence, shadowing until you get it right, then you could record it and replay it to compare it to the original one. It will be an effective way to practice spoken English by analysing the difference between original material and the one from you, and minimize the gap in between.
Wish you a happy learning experience when you apply this app. It is worth your time and effort. By the way, if you are interested in some other foreign languages besides English, you could also find German and Spanish editions of the same app. Try it and it won't let you down.
