Best Special English Listening Apps

4.8😊(6.6K ratings)

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Enhance your English listening and speaking skills with engaging news, stories, and reports. This app offers audio and video lessons, offline access, and personalized recommendations to make learning practical and enjoyable.

What We Love

👍 Excellent for practicing English listening
🚀 Great for learning and improving English
💡 Powerful app for learning American English
👍 Useful for improving reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills
👍 Awesome app for English learners
👍 Helpful for learning English

Room to Improve

🐛 Issues with playing audio/stories
🔍 Placement of ads is problematic
🔇 Lack of option to turn off background music
🔍 Compatibility issues with older devices

English Grammar in Use & Test by Xuan Trung Truong

English Grammar with full test

Strong Contender

4.6😐(332 ratings)

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Improve your English grammar with interactive lessons and tests. This app provides clear explanations for mistakes and helps you identify areas needing more practice. Perfect for intermediate learners to enhance their language skills.

What We Love

👍 Very helpful for learning
👍 Good for practice
👍 Explains topics clearly
👍 Easy to make notes
👍 Detailed topic breakdown
👍 Good for B1+ level
👍 Great for reviewing
👍 Explains mistakes well
👍 Superb overall
👍 Free and great
👍 Very well done
👍 Best thing ever
👍 Very nice app
👍 Humble but best
👍 Great and interesting
👍 Learned grammar faster
👍 Explains grammar rules
👍 Excellent app
👍 Super site for tests
👍 The Best
👍 Quite good
👍 Good review app
👍 Literally INSANE
👍 Great for learners

Room to Improve

🐛 Too many bugs
🐛 Too many adverts
🐛 Ads make it unusable
🐛 Errors and crashes
🐛 App crashes on check
🐛 Test verification not working
🐛 Questions jumbled
🐛 Suggests wrong punctuation
🐛 "All of the above" misplaced
🐛 Ads interrupt often
🐛 No paid version without ads
🐛 Ads cannot be closed
🐛 Frustrating ad experience
🐛 Questions not fully finishing
🐛 Gibberish in questions
🐛 Grammatical errors in questions
🐛 Landscape mode not available
🐛 Test section buggy
🐛 Only first line of sentence shown
🐛 Cannot take a test
🐛 White field instead of answers
🐛 No exercises for theory
🐛 Medium difficulty level

Learn American English Podcast by Nam Nham

Practice listening everyday

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English listening, day by day

4.8😊(11K ratings)

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Improve your English listening skills with daily lessons, news, and stories. This app offers transcribed audio and video content spoken at a slow pace, making it easy to understand. Expand your knowledge of American culture, history, and current events while learning vocabulary and grammar.

What We Love

👍 Excellent app for learning English
🗣 Clear and easy-to-understand pronunciation
📚 Wide range of topics and content
🌐 Helpful for learning about American culture and current events
🧠 Improves vocabulary, grammar, and listening skills

Room to Improve

🐛 Occasional freezing or crashing issues
🔄 Difficulty restoring purchased content on new devices
🔍 Slow content updates compared to website
🔊 Synthetic-sounding voice that doesn't sound natural

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VOA English Learning

Read VOA Special English articlesListen to VOA Standard English newsLearn English from easy to difficult levels

Enhance your English skills by reading and listening to a vast collection of articles and news from VOA Special English and VOA Standard English. Progress through various difficulty levels to improve comprehension and expand your global knowledge.

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Learn English By Listening +

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1500+ articles and audio tracksPractice at your own paceContent from basic to advanced levels

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Synchronized audio and text learningOffline audio and text downloadsAudio player with playback controls

This app helps English learners improve listening, vocabulary, and reading skills through synchronized audio and text lessons. Download content for offline use and access a variety of educational categories.

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VOA Learning English.

Daily updated contentOver 1000 readings with audioTranscripts available

This app offers a comprehensive program designed to help English learners worldwide improve their skills. It provides content like stories and reports written in simple language and read slowly, making it easy to follow. Users can practice listening, expand vocabulary, and learn about American culture and current events.

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English Listening & Quiz

by Steve Kim

Six difficulty levelsFill in the blank lessonsPicture-based listening

Enhance your English listening skills with a progressive learning experience. Features six distinct lesson types, clear audio from native speakers, and a scoring system to track your progress. Enjoy fun and effective practice.

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Learn English easily and fast!

10 Minute English

Daily 10-minute learning sessionsVocabulary expansion (500+ words/month)Learn common idioms and phrases

Improve your English speaking, listening, and writing skills in just 10 minutes a day. Expand your vocabulary with over 500 new words monthly and learn common phrases and idioms to sound more natural. The app uses scientifically proven methods like spaced repetition and word-building exercises to accelerate your learning.

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Practice Listening Everyday

7500+ stories with audio and transcript14 diverse categoriesCustomizable reader settings

Enhance your English listening skills with a vast collection of stories and podcasts focused on American culture and history. Features include customizable playback, word lookup, and offline access.

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English Listening - Daily

Improve your English everyday

Daily listening lessonsLearning by levels and topicsRecord and listen to your speaking

Enhance your English listening and speaking abilities with daily lessons, scripts, and vocabulary exercises. Practice pronunciation by recording yourself and comparing it to native speakers. Access a vast library of audio content on diverse topics updated daily.

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English Listening 2025

English listening daily

Professionally recorded audioSix progressive learning levelsFill-in-the-blank exercises

Enhance your English comprehension with daily listening practice. This app offers professionally recorded audio across six progressive levels, featuring diverse exercises like fill-in-the-blanks and story comprehension. Earn points and advance through levels to make learning effective and enjoyable.

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1000+ native speaker conversationsSentence Builder Game800+ short stories

Practice English conversation with a wide range of categorized dialogues and useful resources for real-life situations and exams. Improve listening, speaking, vocabulary, and pronunciation with audio support for most content.

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English Listening.

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Enhance your English communication skills with daily listening practice. This app offers structured lessons with quizzes and conversation dialogues across basic, intermediate, and advanced levels. Learn over 2000 words and 150 idioms offline.

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