Podcasts

For my future students:

I found this website and called Learn a song Podcast-Audio for ESL/EFL that has songs and lyrics to listen and sing. I find it entertaining for students because it is a little more fun than just listen to the someone talking like in the news, this ones have rhythm.

http://www.manythings.org/songs/

On the same website I also found some jokes with the lyrics that are also fun, different and entertaining for the students.

http://www.manythings.org/jokes/

You can also download the mp3s that you liked on this website.

http://www.manythings.org/

And this one a little bit more clear/slower especially for ESL to improve students' listening comprehension:

http://www.eslpod.com/website/#

For myself:

I found this website with podcasts for free. You can listen and watch videos online. There are a lot of topics on the website with many different episodes. You can also become a member of Digg if you want.

http://digg.com/podcasts

Also I can go to this website and listen more advanced English from the New York Times for free.

http://www.nytimes.com/ref/multimedia/podcasts.html

I really liked these ones too. Lots of possibilities, lots to choose from.

http://iteslj.org/links/ESL/Listening/Podcasts/

http://www.commoncraft.com/podcasting

http://www.myngle.com/

For Gina:

This website has podcast for Spanish learners. The podcasts are first spoken in English and later they are spoken in Spanish. It is a bilingual podcast website.

http://www.edufone.com/podcasts.php

It is really funny because most of the podcasts that I found have music and it is really entertaining and fun.

I really liked this one too because the creator has videos of himself speaking in Spanish with subtitles below that are really helpful for beginners.

http://www.spanishnyc.com/videos.php

Hope you liked them.

Create+Ideas:

I would create podcasts for English learners with videos and listening activities with subtitles and/or scripts mostly about the target culture, music and topics that would motivate my future students.