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Dave’s ESL café is a perfect website for students and teachers as this features a wide range of tools and resources including games, quizzes, lesson plans, podcasts, and a chat network.

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Dave Sperling is the founder of Dave's ESL Café. He has been very active and dedicated to teaching English as a second language (ESL) abroad in such places as Taiwan, Korea, Japan, etc. Dave was born and raised in Los Angeles, California but spent nearly a decade teaching EFL in Japan and Thailand. He has a BA in Psychology from Pepperdine University, and an MA in Applied Linguistics from California State University, Northridge.

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The child learns language as a habit, this way he practices and practices it until the language is merely a set of habits. Unfortunately, it is seldom possible to put students in the position of the baby, where they are forced to rely exclusively on the language being learned. If language teachers had their way, they would do just this, for they know that living and thinking with a language every hour of the day is the one way to master it quickly and well. This is really true most especially if learning the English language involves learning through some of the useful ESL websites like Dave’s ESL café.

With the features integrated in this website, you can never go wrong in learning English as a second language. The wide range of tools for teachers and students are free such as games, quizzes, lessons and podcasts. Stuff for teachers even includes job forums, teacher forums as well as teacher training forums. While students can take advantage of the free grammar lessons with explanation and examples included for better learning of the English language. Pronunciation power, phrasal verbs, idioms and slang are also incorporated in this website.