BBC Learning English
Short daily videos, news reviews and grammar clips with transcripts.
Open resourceLearning Tool 05 · The Reading Room
Where to practise —
free, open, and worth your time.
A shortlist of the open web's best free English resources, filtered by level and skill — plus a reading-level checker so you can tell, before you start, whether a text is your size.
Is this text my level?
runs on your devicePaste a paragraph from an article, paper or book. The checker estimates how hard it is to read.
Open resources
10 resourcesLevel
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VOA Learning English
News read slowly and clearly — ideal for training the ear.
Open resourceBritish Council LearnEnglish
Structured grammar, skills lessons and level tests.
Open resourceProject Gutenberg
Tens of thousands of free public-domain books to read authentically.
Open resourceTED Talks
Real speeches with interactive transcripts; great for note-taking.
Open resourceFAO Publications
Authentic agro-forestry & agriculture reports — your ESP goldmine.
Open resourceCambridge Dictionary
Definitions, audio, and example sentences with CEFR level labels.
Open resourceGrammarly Handbook
Plain-English explanations of common writing rules.
Open resourceRandall's ESL Lab
Listening quizzes graded by difficulty with follow-up tasks.
Open resourceGoogle Scholar
Search real academic papers in your field to build subject vocabulary.
Open resource