Useful WWW Links

The official New York Yankees home page

The official Seattle Mariners home page

The official FIFA home page

The official NBA home page:

ESPN Sports Zone for all kinds of sports

The Internet Movie Database has news and reviews of movies, plus many trailers. (Trailers are short advertisements for movies.)

Drew's Script-O-Rama
This site has scripts to many different movies and television shows. Look for your favorite.

Play with Words

Slanguage (Slang website)

English Tongue Twisters

The Name Game Do you know which names are men's and which are women's?

Awesome Cyber Postcards: Send a cyber greeting card to a friend.

English Newspapers

Asahi Shinbun (Japan)

The Japan Times (Japan)

The Christian Science Monitor
(U.S.), well-known for its in-depth news coverage.

The Chicago Tribune (U.S.)

The Washington Post (U.S.)

The Guardian (U.K.)

International Herald Tribune

The Newsstand (Links to newspapers around the world)

News Web Sites

BBC On-line

CNN Interactive

The Nando Times

The Mainichi's English News web site (Japan)

MSNBC

(American) National Public Radio You can hear the lastest news as well as longer stories, interviews, and book and movie reviews.

The BBC World Service also has news stories you can listen to.

Alternative News and Opinions

With so many complicated situations around the world, it's good to look at things from more than one viewpoint. The sites below are mainly American progressive/liberal views (which are not seen so often in the mainstream news), but I'd like to add non-American sites as well. E-mail me with your suggestions.

Common Dreams News Center Progressive news

In These Times-- Chicago-based magazine of politics and news.

The Nation the well-known liberal magazine

Michael Moore.com Michael Moore has been one of my heroes for a long time, and now his movie "Bowling for Columbine" has won an Oscar. His site has news, opinions AND humor! Check it out!

News on Special Topics

United Nations Daily News

Science News Online The Weekly Newsmagazine of Science

CNET.COM News about computers and other things too.

The Virtual Language Center at Hong Kong Polytechnic University has many on-line dictionaries and exercises to help you improve your English. The Common Errors in English exercises are especially useful.

English Club Net, a great place for people studying English.

Dave's ESL Cafe This site has a Discussion Center, the Idiom of the Day, and more.

Eigotown--a site for Japanese learners of English. It includes advice for increasing your TOEIC score.

Self-Study Quizzes Check your English vocabulary and grammar skills!

Interesting Things for ESL Students Word puzzles, games, slang, and more.

Activities for ESL Students This site has self-study quizzes in English, and bilingual quizzes in many languages (incluing Japanese-English).

Grammar Safari Advice on how to use the WWW to learn more about English grammar.

World Wide Words has information about unusual English words, both old and new.

Links for Writing and Doing Research On-Line (including on-line dictionaries and encyclopedias

Links for Study Abroad:
General Information, English programs, and Linguistics Programs

Randall's Cyber Listening Lab

About's links to listening practice. This is a list of different sites for students learning English.

Also, don't forget the news sites with listening:

• (American) National Public Radio
• The BBC World Service
• The Asahi Shinbun also has short English listening practice lessons on its web page.

Find a Teacher This service can help you find a private teacher for English or other foreign languages who lives close to you in Japan. It is not free--after you find a teacher from the list, you have to pay a 3800 yen fee to contact the teacher.

Find an E-mail pen pal!

The Student E-mail Center at Dave's ESL Cafe has messages from students around the world who would like penpals. (Click on 'View List'.)

English Club Net also has a a penpal list. Click on "View It" to see people who want penpals, or "Sign It" to add your own name.

Get some advice on writing the first message to an e-mail penpal.

The China Tour home page has lots of info. about tourist spots, airlines in China, money, weather information, and more.

Museums Around the World

The World Clock
Shows the local time for cities around the world.

Universal Currency Converter
Find out what 1,000 yen is worth in U.S. dollars, Mexican pesos, etc.

MORE LINKS COMING SOON!