Movies and music to improve your English

In this post I am going to mention a couple of applications that might help you improve your English:

• lyricstraining
• This website has many songs with activities that will let you listen and write in English. Songs are graded according to their level of difficulty.

• spotify and musiXmatch 


• These aplications will let you listen to music in English (Spotify) and if you install musiXmatch, this extension will find the lyrics of the songs you listen to in Spotify. This combination is very useful and also works for mobile phones.

• pordede 
• This is a useful website to download movies or TV series with subtitles in English. Remember that this is a Spanish website so not everything is in English or with subtitles in English, but most of the series you will probably like are here.

• YouTube

• This website is a great place to find movies, documentaries, TV series or songs. just look for materials in English with English subtitles and there you are.

DUOLINGO; New application for English language learners

This new application (Doulingo)  will help you if you would like to learn or improve your English. There are lots of easy-to-follow activities that will enhance your oral and written comprehension. You can choose your mother language and the target language from a large list of languages.

According to Wikipedia, Duolingo is a free language-learning and crowdsourced text translation platform. The service is designed so that, as users progress through the lessons, they simultaneously help to translate websites and other documents. As of July 2014, Duolingo offers Latin American Spanish, French, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, and Dutch courses for English speakers, as well as American English for Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Polish, Turkish, Hungarian, Romanian, Japanese, Hindi, Indonesian, and Korean speakers. 

In January 2014 has 25 million users, out of which about 12.5 million are active.

So, if you are interested, you can get it from the Google Web Store and there are also versions for iOS and Android.

Learn English with your mobile phone

The British Council has selected a series of apps that will help you learn English while using your mobile phone:

• LearnEnglish Audio and Video
• Lots of features unique to the app.
• Offline access to your favourite content.
• Click any part of the audioscript to jump to that section or listen again.
• If you're finding the audio too fast, slow it down using the pitch control (iOS only).
• If you don't know a word, use the built-in glossary.
• Test how much of the episode you've
• LearnEnglish Elementary Podcasts
• Three series of LearnEnglish Elementary Podcasts to directly download and enjoy on your phone
• Syncronised audio script
• Comprehension activities
• Once downloaded the content is available offline.
• Free.
• Big City Small World
• Big City Small World is an audio soap for learners of English. Set in London, it follows the lives of a group of regulars in Tony's cafe.
• Syncronised audio script.
• Over 30 episodes.
• 10 cartoons with notes on language.
• Once downloaded the content is available offline.
• Free.
• Learnenglish Grammar (UK Edition)
• Interactive grammar practice with thousands of questions.
• Wide variety of activity types, taking learners from noticing to production.
• Follows EAQUALS Core Inventory for General English.
• In app content for purchase to extend practice.
• Japanese and Spanish language support.
• US Edition also available with American English.
• MyWordBook2
• Interactive vocabulary learning tool
• Create flashcards for the words your learning
• In app content from Cambridge University Press for purchase creates an interactive dictionary
• Adaptive learning moves words from practice area into review area
• Sync and share flashcards between devices and with friends.
• Johnny Grammar's word Challenge
• Test yourself against our grammar expert Johnny Grammar
• Spelling quizzes to improve your accuracy
• Grammar quizzes on different grammar topics
• Vocabulary quizzes on different themes
• Collect all the awards as you learn
• Compete against other learners from around the world.
• LearnEnglish Sports World
• LearnEnglish Sports World is a hidden object and word game with a sports
• theme.
• Find hidden sports objects in a beautifully illustrated sports scene and correctly spell the hidden sports objects to earn medals.
• Improve your vocabulary
• Available for iPhone and iPad.

Musixmatch: lyrics on your phone

If you like listening to music on your phone, this application is for you. Musixmatch will let you read the lyrics as you are listening to your favourite songs. It will download the lyrics for each song and store them so that they can be read even offline. 
Musixmatch's searchable database contains more than 7,5 million lyrics in more than 32 languages (many of them in Spanish). Find out more at Wikipedia.

www.musixmatch.com