Online Courses

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The Virtual Language Centre   - Free reading, grammar, vocabulary exercises and games. Also offers a Listen and Learn area, an academic writing course, help with pronunciation, a web concordancer and dictionary with text-to-speech support, software downloads and a teacher's toolbox.

Audio English - Offers paid subscription courses. Includes recordings of native speakers, dictionary, and online tests.

Bell English - Interactive and multimedia exercises, games and tutor support for beginner to advanced students. Offers Cambridge First Certificate Examination support and explanations. Requires free registration.

Business Talk France - Offers general and business English courses and gives dates, times and requirements with a free sample lesson.

Centaur Schools - Offers small chat-room classes and an opportunity to self-design a course. Registration fee.

CoolSchool - Fee-based grammar and culture courses offered for levels 1-4. Accessed through the student's school administration.

Distance Learning for Cambridge Certificates in English - Fee-based tutorials for students preparing to sit the Cambridge examinations: First Certificate, Advanced Certificate, and Proficiency Certificate.

Distance Learning, Inc. - Offers instruction for beginner to advanced level with chat, message boards and penpals. Requires paid fee. Free placement test, reading exercises and games.

English Courses on the Internet - Business English practice while listening to a new lesson every day. Requires fee and login. Free trial available.

English for Everybody - Free grammar lessons, exam explanations and practice, reading exercises and downloadable language games. Message board for grammar questions.

English for Internet (EFI) - Offers free tutoring by volunteer teachers.

English International Lyon - Free interactive exercises on sentence construction, reading, collocations, grammar, vocabulary and spelling for beginner to intermediate. Some exercises with audio.

English Language Centre Study Zone - Selection of free grammar explanations and interactive exercises for beginner to advanced students.

English Online - Offers paid writing courses, free newsletter and free login for conversation practice and E-mail grammar lessons.

English Space - Free collaborative and self-study lessons for teachers and young learners, from beginner to intermediate. Requires free login.

englishworld.ca - Offers a fee-based beginner to advanced selection of writing courses.

EVTI - Internet-based learning system for technical English.

Global English - Offers general and business English with listening, grammar and vocabulary components. Requires paid fee. Free sample available.

Go Fluent - Fee-based. Offers businesses courses for their employees with a teacher via telephone or video conferencing.

Learner Behaviour on the Internet: The Internet Grammar of English - An online learning environment for the advanced German student of English as well as material for teachers and linguists. Requires login.

Learning English On-Line - Offers learning environment for upper-intermediate to advanced level. Requires fee, login and fast computer. Free demonstration lesson.

Mikie Metric - Offers translations for a fee and free lessons for the intermediate level. Oriented toward the native speaker of incorrect English.

Net Learn Languages - Fee-based classes offered with a teacher in a video-conferencing environment from office or home. Also offers other languages.

Online English Teacher - Offers online English classes using free Internet chat programs.

PrivaTeacher - Paid-access courses using CD-ROM and ICQ with teachers available 24 hours a day.

Teacher On Line - Email, fax, chat, and telephone English lessons from Thailand.

Time4English - Offers fee-based online English courses. Includes listening, reading, writing and grammar exercises.

U-CAN Distance Learning Course - Provides distance learning EFL courses. [Portuguese, English]

University of Washington English Language Programs - Quarterly, specialized courses offered for intermediate-advanced students. Requires fee.

WESLI English Online - Offers paid-access courses at seven levels as well as TOEFL preparation. Gives course costs and details. Free crosswords for beginner to advanced levels.