Are you a cinephile? I hope so!

And if it so, then IMDb.com (the largest Internet movie database) could be rather interesting for you.

IMDb is a really great project. As a movie fan, I'm loving it very much. I'm not fond of a kind of bestsellers movies, and in this case IMDb helps me a lot by providing an ability to find not so well-known movies but truly more interesting and qualitative ones (as for me, of course).

But wait a minute, how can it help us with learning English?

For the English learning beginners the small vocabulary is a rather common problem. It's not so important in spoken language, but when you write it becomes a real trouble, especially if you write something longer than short posts or comments. The same words, repeated in each and every sentences, or at least rather frequently - isn't a good style. Furthermore, it's kind of hard to read such texts and, of course, poor vocabulary articles doesn't give any trust.

The Internet gives us a great opportunity in many ways. And learning English is not exception. Last years' trend - social networks - can be rather helpful too. And they are.

Let's talk about twitter and reasons why it could be helpful for us.

Twitter is kind of blogging platform, or more exactly, "microblogging", 'cause the maximum length of each post is just 140 characters. But it's not a disadvantage. On the contrary, it's the main advantage. A really great advantage.

And here is why.

Wikipedia is a really great project, which can help us a lot with learning English. Practically all wiki articles are good quality with no grammar or other mistakes - it's worth to admit that it's a big value for the project with user generated content, on other social sites such as forums, blogs, social networks and so on, almost always nobody watching users' language and correct mistakes. With wikipedia you can be sure - all articles have no mistakes. And of course wiki in most cases contains well structured and useful information, so it's easy to find what you really want. And besides learning English, wiki helps you to improve your education as well.

As you know, wiki is not only a wikipedia.org but a bunch of different projects. Let's take a look at all of them (or at least at most important for us, as our main purpose is to learn English).

The Pirate Bay - I guess, for someone it isn't seems good, but nevertheless it's truly indispensable. Definitely indispensable.

"One of the world's largest facilitators of illegal downloading" and so on. Yes, yes. We know that. But our goal is to learn English, which means to watch, listen and read a lot of English native content. If you are living in English spoken country, it's not a big deal at all, you can just buy practically everything you want in the store across the road. But if you aren't... Yes, it's a problem. And The Pirate Bay give you a solution. Probably the best solution in this case.

I guess practically everyone knows site youtube.com - the most popular and biggest video hosting.

Let's talk about how YouTube can help us in learning English.

The most obvious reason - there are dozens of different videos in English. On each and every theme. Professional and "self made".