- Find a language school in Basel - Germany - the Alsace
- Radio, music, video/audio links
- Vocabulary/reading skills
- Speaking/presentation skills
- Writing skills
- Grammar and other useful links
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English for beginners
Warm up with this classic clip from the Two Ronnies... 
Improve your listening comprehension with these radio, video and other audio links
1) Materials made for learners:
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BBC Learning English - for intermediate level and above.
- Australia Network 'Sisters and Brothers' show (beginner to pre-intermediate)
2) Authentic audio materials - for advanced students:
- podcasts from the BBC
- podcasts from the
Guardian newspaper
- listen to the latest show from Basel's RadioX English Show
- podcasts from Bastronomy.com (Basel Foody news and views)
- The BBC Video Nation archive: short films by amateur film makers
- Listen to English accents from around the world
3) Listen to BBC radio over the Internet:
- Daily world service bulletin
- Daily business news bulletin
- The Excess Baggage radio show : A weekly programme in which John McCarthy and Sandi Toksvig talk to travellers about their experiences (the programmes presented by John McCarthy are the easiest to follow). See ‘highlights’ on the right hand side of the page.
- Women's hour radio show: A daily programme 'celebrating, informing and entertaining women (Click on 'listen again').
- BBC Six Music music documentaries.
4) Improve your ear for accents. Listen to some of the hundreds of different English accents collected in this database.
Or, tune in to English-language radio stations from around the world.
Improve your vocabulary and reading skills
1) Read about:
- the lives of famous people (great for past tenses)
- home-improvement jobs (texts to study for everyday vocabulary and 'procedural' language)
2) Buy stories written for English learners: Penguin readers for every level.
3) Food vocabulary: fish, meat, describing wine
Improve your speaking/presentation skills
- Find local English speakers who are looking for conversation exchanges (englishforum.ch)
- Ideas for conversation subjects
- Tips for a successful presentation
Follow the 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint: 10 slides, 20 minutes, font size 30+
- Watch the professionals giving talks and presentations
Practise and improve your writing skills
- Useful phrases and exercises for emailing and letter writing/Answers
- More on language for email and formal letters
- Conjugate an English verb (online tool)
- Discover Twitter
- Chat with other learners in the English cafe forum or with English speakers living locally - local discussion forums
- Writing a cv/resumé in English
- Writing a cover letter
- The Economist English Style Guide (advanced students/native speakers)
Recommended grammar links
- Business English exercises
- The Grammar Aquarium
Other links
- Writing your cv? How do you describe your level?
Find out where you are in the Common European Framework of Reference (A1-C2).
- Helpsheets for the Cambridge Business English Certificate reading tests: Preliminary - Vantage - Higher
- Learn to text/SMS in English
- Crosswords
English for beginners
- The Basics
- Countries and nationalities, money, alphabet and spelling
- 'Sisters and Brothers' show from the Australia network (beginner-pre-intermediate)
- Ship or Sheep? Pronunciation practice
- Buy stories with very simple English (Penguin 'readers').
