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**[|bbc]** **[|National Public Radio (US)]** **[|different accents]** <span style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: -476px !important; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat !important; border-style: none !important; border-width: medium !important; bottom: auto !important; clear: none !important; clip: auto !important; content: normal !important; counter-increment: none !important; counter-reset: none !important; cursor: auto !important; direction: ltr !important; display: block; display: block; float: none !important; height: auto !important; left: auto !important; list-style-image: none !important; list-style-position: outside !important; list-style-type: disc !important; margin: 0px !important; max-height: none !important; max-width: none !important; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 175px !important; outline-color: invert !important; outline-style: none !important; outline-width: medium !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 10px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: relative !important; right: auto !important; table-layout: auto !important; text-align: left !important; text-indent: 0px !important; top: auto !important; unicode-bidi: normal !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; visibility: visible !important; width: auto !important; z-index: auto !important;"> media type="custom" key="8505304"  **English Central:** A site where you can listen to videos and try to imitate them to improve pronunciation: [] and ..training videos on how to use the site mentioned above (watch this first to decide whether you'd be interested): []
 * Live Radio:**

**Podcasts**: A handy way to practise listening on the move. You can listen to them on your computer, on your mp3 player, record them onto a cd or whatever you want! You download iTunes onto your computer, put in the title in the search box, find it and click 'subscribe'.

**real radio programmes** from the bbc, cnn etc for example:
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