Learn from Academic Earth

Academic Earth offers thousands of video lectures from the world’s top scholars in  the six leading American universities: Harvard, MIT, Yale, Princeton, UC Berkeley and Standford, covering 17 subjects in liberal arts, engineering, business, law, and even religion.

Here are the samples of a few top-rated courses and lectures: Introduction to Psychology,  Financial Markets, Loving What You Do, The American Novel Since 1945.

Don’t get too frustrated if you were struggling with the course. It might have little to do with the level of  your English proficiency; it’s just that the subject itself is tough for even the brightest students in the Ivy League schools.

Learn from Cooking Light

Eat Smart. Be Fit. Live Well.  That’s the Cooking Light magazine’s motto.

The magazine has over 130 video clips in its website to show you just how. They include cooking recipes, bedroom designs, and body workouts. You will learn a lot of useful English words in the categories of food, seasoning, cooking ware, and interior design. That would be your necessary daily survival skill when you live in an English-speaking country.

Even if you decide to eat dumb, be fat, and not live well anyway, you will still end up a winner.

Learn From Travel Channel

Trans World Airlines (TWA ) launched the Travel Channel over 20 years ago. It thought to excite its audiences with the exotic places in the world, hoping to generate their interests in traveling more and flying with TWA.

TWA got everything right except the business part. It filed bankruptcy in 1992 and the Travel Channel has changed its owner several times. But people have been traveling more, and the Channel has visited many fascinating places.

The Travel Channel has another unexpected benefit. Its programming can be great learning material for English learners. Many of the videos are available at its website or its YouTube channel.

Learn from University of California Television

Many study English because you want to come to the U.S. for the college or graduate education. And when you come, some are nervous about whether you will survive in all English-speaking lectures and seminars.

Thanks to the University of California Television (UCTV), you can have a taste of what’s like through Internet. UCTV broadcasts lectures in science, health and medicine, public affairs, humanities, and the arts from the campuses of the University of California system, one of the best in the nation.

You can watch the videos either at the UCTV’s website or its channel at YouTube.

Learn from Seventeen

We have recommended People magazine before. Now meet the People Jr.– The Seventeen magazine.

Both are about fashion, celebrities, and beauty. But Seventeen, as its name suggested, targets a younger age group. You can watch over 200 video clips either at the video section of its website’s or at the magazine’s YouTube channel.

The only side effect of learning from Seventeen is that it unmistakably tells you how hopelessly you are out of fashion. Or old.