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- Allowing users to choose content they love, from a massive database of video content covering popular subject areas (e.g., travel, sports, politics, business, movies) and existing popular content (e.g., Obama's speeches)

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My own books shelf

Shelfari introduces readers to our global community of book lovers and encourages them to share their literary inclinations and passions with peers, friends, and total strangers (for now).

Shelfari’s members:
* Build virtual bookshelves to express themselves to their friends and to the world
* Discover books that are popular in their trusted circles of friends
* Influence peers by rating and discussing books online
* Discover and learn from people with similar reading tastes
* Participate in online book groups to further explore literature and share ideas
* Interact with and learn from authors

My own books shelf:

Shelfari: Book reviews on your book blog

Emma by Jane Austen

Emma by Jane Austen

Emma escrito por Jane Austen

Women against hunger

Women not only cook food for their families, but also produce between 60 - 80% of food in developing nations. And yet, 60% of chronically hungry people are women and girls. We're asking people to send a message of solidarity at wfp.org/women Use this toolkit of facts, video and photos to support your blogging. You can also find banners here! You can also find more information here: WFP: Focus on Women

Gypsy by Shakira

Broke my heart Down the road Spend the weekend Sewing the pieces back on Crayons and dolls pass me by Walking gets too boring When you learn how to fly Not the homecoming kind Take the top off And who knows what you might find Won't confess all my sins You can bet I'll try it But I can't always win [Chorus] 'Cause I'm a gypsy But are you coming with me? I might steal your clothes And wear them if they fit me I never made agreements Just like a gypsy And I won't back down 'Cause life's already hurt me And I won't cry I'm too young to die If you're gonna quit me 'Cause I'm a gypsy ('Cause I'm a gypsy)

Gypsy lyrics found at elyricsworld.com

Apertium translation platform

Apertium is a free/open-source machine translation platform.

It is possible to use Apertium to build machine translation systems for a variety of language pairs; to that end, Apertium uses simple XML-based standard formats to encode the linguistic data needed (either by hand or by converting existing data), which are compiled using the provided tools into the high-speed formats used by the engine.



The Apertium architecture is being developed by the Transducens research group at the Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics of the Universitat d'Alacant in collaboration with Prompsit Language Engineering.

Apertium welcomes new developers: if you think you can improve the engine or the tools, or develop linguistic data for them, do not hesitate to contact them.

The Lost World - El Mundo Perdido

The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

El Mundo Perdido escrito por Arthur Conan Doyle


As every Sunday, a book in English and Spanish, to read without leaving the portal.
Como cada domingo, otro libro en versión inglesa y española, para leer sin salir del portal.

The man who went to Malta

Better not to hear this joke, if it wishes to improve speaking skills.

The Italian man who went to Malta.

One day I gonna to Malta to a big hotel. In the morning I go down to eat breakfast.

I tell the waitress that I want two pieces of toast. She brings me only one piece.

I tell her "I wanna two pieces". She says "Go to the toilet"

I say "You don't understand, I wanna two pieces on my plate"

She says to me "You better not piss on the plate, you sonnawabitch"

I do not even know this lady and she call me a sonnawabitch!!

Later, I go to eat at a bigger restaurant. The waitress brings me a spoon and knife, but no fork.

I tell her "I wanna a fork" and she tells me "Everyone wanna fuck"

I tell her "You don't understand... I wanna fork on the table"

She says "You better not fuck on the table. You sonnawabitch"

So I go back to my room in my hotel and there is no sheets on the bed.

I call the manager and tell him "I wanna a sheet". He tells me to go the toilet.

I say "You don't understand, I wanna a sheet on my bed"

He says: "You better not shit on the bed, you sonnawabitch"

I go to the check out and the man at the desk said: "Peace on you"

And I say: "Piss on you too, you sonnawabicth"

I gonna back to Italy!

Talk a Lot Spoken English Course

Help to teachers: A complete 12-week spoken free English course for students at Elementary - Pre-Intermediate Levels by englishbanana.com

Talk a Lot Spoken English Course - Elementary Book 1

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English is your link to living language.







Look up a word that begins with the letter D or the letter S for examples of sentence pronuntiations. Click on the speaker icon next to the example sentences to hear them pronounced. Click on the speaker icon at the top of the entry and a new window will open. From there, you can hear the headword pronounced in British or American English, and you can hear the example sentences for that entry too. Even names and places are pronounced, for example, Dostoyevsky.

Blue Moon by Leonie Smith

elllo songs are a great way to learn English. Below are some great songs by independent artists. As the students listen, the words are displayed on the screen so students can catch the lyrics as well as work on grammar, pronunciation, reading speed, reading by chunks and common slang and idioms.

Blue Moon by Leonie Smith with subtitles



The mp3 files and text on elllo are Creative Commons. Students and teachers are free to download, copy and distribute these materials for educational purposes. They are not transferable for commercial purposes.