EnglishCentral

[MyDigitalpoint]

For all those who like to learn English with the aid of video material, I would like to share this link:

English Central provides sentence-by-sentence access to video clips on popular culture, movies, news, and more. Each video is viewable one sentence or so at a time, with a script of that line.

The script is cleaned up, unfortunately, and is missing linguistic features such as false starts, repetitions, and filler words. Each of these "lines" can also be played at a slower speed.

Users can record themselves saying each line, and are scored according to a software program's measure of the accuracy of each sound in each word. Linking, rhythm and intonation appear to NOT be measured, and so this system may give some surprising results.

Unclear words are highlighted visually in the script of the line. 

View all available videos here, http://www.englishcentral.com/videos#!/index/all/all/easiest/0

[katara]

Really useful, I didn't even know such a site existed, thanks for sharing the link.

[pandandesign]

I haven't heard of the site before. I will take a look to see how accurate it is because I think it will help me to pronounce some words, which I have a hard time saying them. Thanks for the info!

[andre-nunes]

That's an interesting way to learn English. Thanks for sharing.

It's great that we live in an age were every bit of human knowledge is one click away...

[Daimashin]

The internet is truly a wonderful place to learn. Even something like this is available for people to learn. I've never seen anything like it, I'll be sure to check it out some time.

[Trellum]

Thanks a lot for sharing this!  This is probably the most useful link in the whole forum!  I just watched one of the videos from this web site and I loved the fact the video has subtitles to reinforce what I heard (just in case there was any doubt the word I heard was actually the one I thought I heard).

What a wonderful web site, it definitely deserves to be bookmarked and I actually did   One of my biggest weaknesses in English is pronunciation!  I love how clear and entertaining the videos in this web site seem to be.