Lyricstraining: fill in the gaps of songs while listening to them, sing karaoke (French, Japanese, Spanish and German)

Lyricsgap: Similar website to lyricstraining (gaps and karaoke for French, Spanish and German). With account you can add own activities but students don’t need account. Doesn’t work well on Chrome, use Firefox).

Audiolingua: selection of Mp3 files for listening for German, French, Spanish, Chinese and Arabic.

Audible: Listen to German, French, Japanese, Spanish (heaps), (currently for free) stories read out (no text)

Listen and Write: Some of the dictations are free and can be used without Login. Languages:, French, German, Korean, Japanese, Spanish)

BBC Bitesize: Online listening activities for German, French, Spanish and Mandarin.

Text to speech (extension and online): ImTranslator for Chinese Mandarin/ Cantonese/ Taiwanese, British English French, German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish.

Vocaroo: Free online voice recorder without account. Simply record your text or upload and share with your students.

11 Blog posts on the topic of Listening: Gianfranco Conti gives great theoretical background and very effective activities to practise listening.

Selection of posts with activities:

• So... how do we teach listening

• Micro-listening tasks you may not be using often enough in your lessons (Part 1)

• Micro-listening skills (Part 2) – More micro-listening tasks for the foreign language classroom

• How to exploit the full learning potential of an L2 song in the language classroom

• Teaching Grammar through Listening

• Eleven intervention strategies for underachieving L2-listeners