Improve Your English provided as FREEWARE, but only for private, non-commercial use (at home) only. Improve Your English is free for educational use (schools, universities etc.) and for use in charity or humanitarian organizations.

Features :

Listen News in English (VOA, Yahoo AP, BBC)
Listen online Radio & TV channels (Listening Practice)
Listen podcasts from native speakers (VOA special English)
Learn pronunciation of words using Microsoft Text to Speech
Save News to audio file (for ipod etc.)
it works as a news aloud.
if you want to aloud any document on your computer only select text and copy it. Improve Your English gets selected text from your clipboard and speaks it for you.
if you want to look up any word on anywhere, select the word and copy it, Improve Your English gets definition of the word and shows definition of the word in the popup dictionary.
Word reminder mode helps you to move your passive vocabulary to your active memory.
Adjustable podcast player speed (50% to 200%) for beginners and advanced listener.
Online English-English Dictionaries (Cambridge& Babylon 18 language) support. (only one click to get definition of words)
Edit and save news to your computer with their podcasts.
You can colorize important words in this way colorized words attract your attention.
Add important word to your "My Words" dictionary to list and memorize them.
Place your word to your active memory (Long Term Memory) using "Fun With Words"
Listen and replay word game
Oral replay with Microsoft Speech Recognition game
Find words from their meaning game.
Find meaning of the words game.

Platform: Windows XP, Windows Vista

System Requirements: 20 MB free disk space, sound card,