Top 10 Websites to Learn English Online for Free

There are many ways for you to learn and improve your English, such as to hire a teacher, to go to school, to take an online course, and so on. And among those ways, the cheapest and still efficient way is to learn English online for free.

You just need a computer with internet access, then visit some English learning websites and teach yourself without paying any money. It sounds cool, right? Among those websites, below 10 are certainly worthy of your attention:

1. Elllo

Elllo focuses on your English listening skill. You can listen to speakers from all over the world for different topics, such as sports, travels, games, and so on. There is related text script under the audio player. You can also listen to some nice English songs or watch some videos.

Go to Elllo

2. Fun Easy English

Fun Easy English mainly focuses on the basic English knowledge and teaching tips, its courses include pronunciation, grammar, idioms, slang, writing, tests and much more. Most of those courses are launched in Video format, in addition with text scripts and pictures.

Go to Fun Easy English

3. Go4English.com

Go4English.com is owned by British Council, which is the UK’s international cultural relations body. The website offers English learning information and tests for teachers, students and kids. You can learn English online while you are taking a test, listening to a song, or even playing a game.

Go to Go4English.com

4. Lang-8

Lang-8 focuses on writing in a foreign language. You write in the language that you are learning, then native speakers will correct your writing, and you can also help others learn your native language by correcting their writing.

Go to Lang-8

5. Busuu

For every language you choose to learn, Busuu provides a few courses, including writing exercises, vocabulary training, reading comprehension, and so on. Besides courses, you can also learn English online by joining the community and chatting with other members.

Go to Busuu

6. Livemocha

The Livemocha website focuses on learning a foreign language by courses and communications. To learn English online, you can pick up an English course, submit your answers, or chat with the members whose native language is English. And you can help other members by checking their submissions.

Go to Livemocha

7. VocabSushi

VocabSushi is for you to learn vocabulary with real-world, contextual examples found in the daily news. You pick up a vocab word, understand its means, read the sentence samples, listen to the speakers, then you can take a test and check if you have learned that word.

Go to VocabSushi

8. BBC Learning English

On the BBC Learning English website, you can learn grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and so on, you can take a test, you can also learn how to teach others English. The most interesting course is 6 Minute English, in which you can listen to a short audio record, which can be downloaded both in MP3 and PDF formats.

Go to BBC Learning English

9. Learn English Free Online

With an over 10 years history, Learn English Free Online is an abundant website for EFL/ESL learners and teachers. You can learn vocabulary with the related pictures, you can get some English learning tips, you can take some funny test, and so on.

Go to Learn English Free Online

10. Exam English

As the name, the website Exam English is for you to take exams, including TOEFL, CPE, KET, and nearly all the other famous international ESL/EFL exams. You can test your English level by reading, listening, grammar, vocabulary, or writing separately.

Go to Exam English

Among the above 10 websites, some (such as elllo) focus on listening, some (such as Lang-8) focus on writing, some (such as VocabSushi) focus on vocabulary, and some focus on other English skills or knowledge, you can check them out and choose your favorite. If you have any other websites to learn English online, welcome to share with us by adding a comment.

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emmie_eigo 5 pts

I'm so happy to run into your site. The list is truly helpful to find good ones when so many learning sites come and go lately. Hope you can renew the list from time to time. Thank you very much.

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emmie_eigo Nice to hear that these 10 websites are helpful for you, and will keep you posted if anything changed.

Best collection...i have visited one site...globalaviationenglish.com.....it's best for students from aviation industry like pilot ,flight attendent and all...but grammar and video training sections are very powerfull for basic English learner...they taught by step by step....AND IT"S COMPLETLY FREE

This Ello website is really very good ! i like it .
Thankyou very much for this nice information :)

Thanks a lot ! Your sites is very useful for those who would like to learn English on line .

These websites r quite helpful to enhance my english knowledge much more better.thanks a lot

Hi everyone, english isn't my first language but i want to speak very well. It 's very important for me because i like to watch english tv for following premier league.

Live Mocha is Best!!

Thank you from nice Websites which introduced and I really appreciate you English is not my native language i want to learn more but i found most useful websites here,
thank you,

very nice website

dear Mr,Mis

Hi,

I have a offer for your site.pleases put place for us to improve my language like chating room.
best regards,
sami

@sami Is any of the places mentioned in the post workable for u?

I got to admit, good list but incomplete without 2 outstanding "speaking" additions.

1) EnglishCentral http://www.englishcentral.com Unbelievable speechrecognition and feedback. Fun videos, real videos.

2) Voicethread. Lots of authentic listening and speaking. http://voicethread.com

David

I want to learn English lamguage

nice article for beginner who want to learn english
thanks

Nice site Abielus! I also wanted to make a site that's really useful for English learners and completely free with no hassle about signing up!
The product is here: https://sites.google.com/site/marysenglishcourse/
It has a grammar reference section, and the beginner course is now complete.

Those are some great sites for learning English. I've recently begun my own site, http://travel-with-english.com. It has mainly articles about various English grammar topics, and might be useful to some readers here. Good luck to all of you in your studies!

nice share...
but I didn't see LingQ.com there..

@Rama Thanks for sharing LingQ.com.

You may want to consider http://www.learnalanguage.com It has Spanish to English and French to English as well as other languages. It's more for vocabulary than anything else and the audio you hear comes from native speakers. It's free too.

english in about.com is one of the best ! why it is not in the top 10?

@mcoencec Because I like those 10 in the post more, thanks for the suggestion anyway.

this is a great tool, thank you, I will review them and use them im to improve my english idiom, thanks very much , it is good.

its really so useful website for the people who want to improve their English ( grammar vocabulary skills and that what i need exactly so i can say only thankful for designer this program with my best with for everyone
thanks
sari

dear sir
i am a graduate student of 12 grade i want to higher my English knowledge if i can how guide me thanks from all of this website workers.

Wow, this is a great resource, I will definitely use these sites to improve my vocabulary and grammar skills, something good had to come out of the internet right?
hehe

thanks!

Thank you very much, your article was very useful for me:)

Hi i am Suneer, i really appreciate for this updations, its really help people like me ,who has english as second language, to select best resources to learn better english ,. And i really want to show you a website with all areas of english, from A to Z effect. http://www.ego4u.com/ This website really helps me to improve my language, and i am still working on it. I hope all guys who really want to learn english, should go to this site. No matter weather you are a beginner or intermediate or expert, definitely you will have lots of funs out there!!!

This is my favorite one. It's pretty helpful:
http://www.phrasemix.com

Very useful list, English is not my native language and I still makes many grammatical mistakes, these sites will really going to help.

Englguage is not my mother laguage. this laguage is international laguage.so i need to learn english.

i want to learn english.

Lots of students can learn about the English words used in various sciences using the "EasyTerms" series of books. They're available at the major online retailers, or through:

http://ApplecreekBooks.weebly.com

Might I suggest http://ecpod.com?
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@Harsh Agrawal Glad to hear that you like those websites, too.

Thanks for Great resources..English is not my first language and this will help a lot...