Practicing everywhere!
People not always are at places with free access to Internet and not always have the money to pay for it on their mobiles; therefore, using an app not only is a good solution to end with their boredom without the use of Internet but also is a great way to practice listening skill in a more interactive way.
Some people are keen on learn by doing, so here I recommend some apps which you can download to your mobiles and keep improving everyday!
I'll leave the link so you can go directly to the website and download it for free.
*English Listening Practice*
Want to improve your English listening skill in a simple way? Here it's for you, with many categories and more than THOUSANDs conversations, it will be your best friend. Enjoy your learning. Don't forget put comments to help us improve this app. English Listening Test is designed with 3 formats of TOEFL-listening (You can use them for IELTS, and TOEIC also): 1. Short Conversation 2. Longer Conversation 3. Mini Talks & Lectures
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.a1.quiz.englishlistening.free&rdid=com.a1.quiz.englishlistening.free&pli=1
Image 1. Google Play, (2014)
This helpful app will help you listen to English and speak English more fluently. There are many lessons divided into many levels from elementary to intermediate and advanced. You can choose one of two audio modes: Online Streaming and Offline to learn English. This app also includes the list of necessary idioms and phrases used in daily talk. Main Features: - Thousands of English conversations and stories with audios and completed transcripts; - Common idioms and phrasal verbs in daily conversations; - Vocabulary learning and test for many topics including: most commonly used words, IELTS Academic, TOEIC, TOEFL, Kid words; - Essay for IELTS; - Irregular verbs table with audio supported; - English Pronunciation; - Names and surnames pronunciation; - Recognize and evaluate your pronunciation; - Hundreds of listening tests that improve both your listening and vocabulary abilities; - Sentence Building Game - Vocabulary Building Game - Word Chain Game - Listen to lessons online/offline; - Bookmark lessons.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.funbox.englishlisteningpractice&hl=es
Image 2. Google Play (2018)
*English Listening Practice*
English Listening Practice is a free app developed by ocoder solutions team. This app allows you to improve your English listening skills quickly and systematically by practice English everyday and everywhere. You can Learn English anytime and anywhere you want. The articles are divided into five levels of difficulty and by topics, which range from very easy for listening to very challenging. As your listening proficiency improves, you can select articles from more challenging levels. You can listen to British voice and American Voice. This app has: + Test English listening (each conversation has test questions and transcript text for you easily follow. + Basic English listening (Level A is the very basic lessons to listen. Recommend you listen to these Basic audio first). + Intermediate English Listening Lessons (Level B is the intermediate English listening lessons, if you pass almost Basic test, you can start to listen to this) + Advanced Listening Lessons (Level C is the Advanced English Listening lessons, you can start to learn Advanced lessons after pass the level B) + English American Voice (Help you to listen to American voice, you can understand what's an American talking and if you practice, you can speak English like an American) + English British Voice (You can listen to English British voice, help you to understand the way a British talking and understand British vocabulary. You can also speak like an British if you practice hard) + English listening by topics. - Self introduction - How to introduce yourself in English - Business English - Academic English listening
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trungstormsix.englishlistening
Image 3. Google Play, (2016)
*IELTS Listening Preparation-Listen English for TED*
Improve your English by listening conversation, take IELTS practice test. Listening is an important part of communication. If you do not understand what the other person is saying, then you will not know how to respond. In this IELTS Listening Preparation app, you can constantly listen to the audio files provided here. There is also question and answers to allow students to gauge how they are doing. FEATURES • Take IELTS Practice test • 12 IELTS Practice tests with answers. • English conversation with slow voice. • Listening TED talks with multi-subtitles • Commonly-used English phrases & vocabularies • Easy to store and manage your favorite items • Pretty UI, simple and user-friendly, support multi-language • Huge amount of audio content This application of English listening has different levels of difficulty, with specific vocabulary, different accents. *You can download audio to use OFFLINE.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=english.duckydev.ieltsenglish.listening&pli=1
Image 4. Google Play, (2018)
References
Google Play. (2018). Retrieved from https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.funbox.englishlisteningpractice
Google Play. (2018). Retrieved from https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trungstormsix.englishlistening
Google Play. (2018). Retrieved from https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=english.duckydev.ieltsenglish.listening&pli=1