Basic for Listening vs AvaCast

Tactics for Listening Third Edition is an activity-rich listening course with proven success in building skills in listening and conversation. Now with Tactics for Testing, it provides plenty of practice in testing and exam techniques. The result is confident listeners - and exam success. This three-level American English listening course uses short chunks and practical, relevant activities to engage and motivate students.

* The best English Podcasts for learning + transcripts * Auto-highlight the transcripts * Very well-categorized podcasts * Search capability in all transcript to find related podcasts * Highlight the important phrases/word in transcript * Play back and forward from the text * List of new/key words + definition Our website: http:// www.avacast-learning.com Avacast is the next generation of podcast player for English language learners. We believe that our app can be a game changer. Without any doubt, listening to the English podcasts is strongly recommended to improve listening skills. But listening to the English podcasts without having the transcripts is a real pain for students. In AvaCast, we have developed a brand new player which enables users to play forward or backward to meaningful chunks by our smart player. While listening to one podcast the text is highlighted. Users can easily browse the entire text and select one specific chunk. We collected the best and well-produced English podcasts and categorized them properly so our users can find exactly the podcast from one specific topic they are interested in or even search in more than 1000 podcast transcripts.