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You can work more on your accent at home, using the video series on Standard American Accent by Amy Walker here.

If you don't have MS Office software on your computer, you can download Open Office - free word processing and presentation software - here.

MacMillan Dictionary: a great resource for pronunciation and cultural information. You need to set your options for American here: http://www.macmillandictionary.com/options.html  The transcription is not exactly what we learn together, but you can listen to the words as they are pronounced (press the speaker button).

A great online pronunciation guide  for personal names, names of places, etc.:  http://inogolo.com/ Just type in the word - and voila! Another great resource if the Voice of America Pronunciation Guide: http://pronounce.voanews.com/

Many students have found this website very useful for extra practice: LingvaLeo

A good website with MANY videos in English with subtitles: http://speechyard.com/video/#_=_

A very interesting link: an on-line thesaurus in the form of a mind map. Very cool and easy to work with. Check it out!
http://www.visuwords.com/

If you don't have a PDF Reader on your computer, you can download Foxit PDF Reader absolutely free of charge: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/Secure_PDF_Reader/

We recommend VLС Player as one of the best open-sources media players available. It plays most video and audio formats and is very easy to use (e.g. when you need to view subtitles, etc.) Ir is also free. Click here to download.