Many people build their English vocabulary through a blend of methods — by taking English classes, reading books, watching movies in English, and studying English with English language software. Playing word and vocabulary games is a valuable part of learning English. There are thousands of vocabulary words in our vocabulary lists. May I suggest that you try www. vocabulary.co.il You can also try www.memrise.com It has free online word Games which are specifically designed to build vocabulary skills and to motivate people to learn through fun practice in spelling, phonics, and vocabulary.

HERE ARE SOME FREE ONLINE STORIES AND BOOKS TO HELP YOU LEARN ENGLISH Hi, you may find these sites useful there are 1000's of free novels, poems, stories www.readprint.com/ Serialized novels http://everydaynovels.com/ # Fiction & Short Stories to Read Online Short fiction and free short stories to read online. Contain great stories between 50 and 5000 words.. www.buzzle.com/chapters/escape-hatch_Short-Fixion.asp # Classic short stories If you're looking for a larger range of free classic English literature online, try the English Library. Or if modern short stories are your thing try here. ... www.world-english.org/stories.htm # Listing of free online short stories UK's Richmond Review has a fine library of high quality short stories. ... www.foxglove.co.uk/short_stories.html # Free Online Short Stories A list of links to free short stories found on the internet. free-online-novels.com/short_stories.html Harry Potter books www.pottermore.com Craig recommends a website that allows you to download Roald Dahl books in PDF format. http://ebook.turtlepod.org/roald-dahl Between Shades of Grey is the story of the deportation of a Lithuanian family to Siberia http://www.betweenshadesofgray.com/ This site has free interactive children's stories http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/onlinestory.htm

This is a good site for listening to English http://www.audioenglish.net/ Watch free movies with subtitles see: www.itv.com and www.free-tv-video-online.info/ and you can also Watch CNN News online for free Various TV channels for free: www.tvchannelsfree.com WATCH TV SERIES ON YOUTUBE Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson - The English TV series . ► 0:41► 0:41 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgzllVHoU1424 STALKER - TV Series Trailer - English - YouTube ► 1:25► 1:25 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AQteAauItA10 The first teaser for the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. TV series. www.kinostalker.com. DVD Collection - British TV series - YouTube ► 4:25► 4:25 www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcmoePNGK1o18 Funny British TV show skit - YouTube ► 1:03► 1:03 www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NzuEP7glUg Airline UK TV Show S08E09 (1/3) - YouTube ► 9:01► 9:01 www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeT4LSF4mhE30 Aug 2008 - 9 min - Uploaded by bored242 A passenger who turns up too late for her flight to Paris .. You can also watch The Daily English Show here: http://a4esl.org/tdes/

Hi Barbara, For enriching vocabulary, nothing beats reading. Read everything and anything! Free ebooks, online magazines and newspapers, blog posts in your areas of interest. Look up all the words you don't know or are unsure of and WRITE THEM DOWN or, better still, enter them into a spaced-repetition (SRS) learning program like Anki. http://ankisrs.net/ You can also create your own flashcard sets and regularly test yourself at http://quizlet.com Quizlet is one of the best langage learning resources I have ever found online. You could also get hold of a file of English words listed by frequency. http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/bncfreq/flists.html Enter these into your SRS application and you'll be amazed at the speed of your progress. This is how I am learning Serbian and also how I learned Finnish at university. Hope this helps, Rog

Charles Dickens is always a joy for the English language lover. Also Jane Austen Perhaps Virginia Woolf for something a little harder, but just as good.