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20 years in English as a medium of instruction: an unstoppable train?
A few years into the new millennium, I returned to my home city of Copenhagen after a couple of years working in Belgium. As my train pulled into Copenhagen Central Station, a poster caught my eye: the University of Copenhagen wanted to be among the fifty best universities in the world.
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20 years in Linguistics: how the way we communicate has changed
Philip Seargeant, senior lecturer in Applied Linguistics, looks at how our use of language and the way we communicate has changed over the past twenty years.
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Money & Business
Business communication: writing a SWOT analysis
This free course, Business communication: writing a SWOT analysis, is designed to develop your writing skills for business. You will be taken step by step through the process of writing a SWOT analysis, with clear advice on selecting key information from a case study text, making concise notes, choosing an appropriate structure and using ...
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Free online Italian courses
Discover these free online Italian courses on OpenLearn.
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German for travel: Test your skills
Test your German language skills as you immerse yourself on an interactive journey through Germany.
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Commemorating Lord Byron on the streets of London
We look back at the 200th anniversary of Lord Byron’s death and explore the history of his commemoration, and how this sheds light on our understanding of English heritage.
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Languages
Language in professional life
This free course explores English language use across a range of professions, drawing on audio and video interviews, video footage of different workplaces and short texts for analysis. Over the six weeks, you’ll look at how language is used in branding, English for academic purposes, organisational culture, health communication, speech and ...
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Education & Development
When words escape control: Tourette syndrome and slurs
After the BBC broadcast a racial slur shouted by a guest with Tourette syndrome, the incident sparked outrage and an apology. But it also reveals a deeper linguistic question: when words cause harm, how much does intent matter?
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Machine translation in language learning and teaching
Learn to implement freely available online machine translation tools such as Google Translate or DeepL into your language learning or teaching. The course is aimed at learners and teachers of all languages and levels. It introduces the uses of AI in language learning and provides activities and examples of how to use online machine ...
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Year of the Horse: Chinese Lunar New Year
Happy Chinese New Year of the Horse! As the Lunar New Year approaches once again, millions of people across the world prepare to welcome a new zodiac cycle with festive celebrations, family gatherings, and expressions of hope for the year ahead.
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Introduction to Spanish
Learn how to talk about your work and your working day. You will learn vocabulary for different professions, say what your job is, and how you go to work. This course is an extract from the L106 Introduction to Spanish Studies (beginners) course. Whether you are a complete beginner or have some knowledge of Spanish you could give it a go and ...
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Tarddiad Celtaidd yr iaith Gymraeg
Mae stori’r Gymraeg yn rhan o bos ieithyddol - un sy’n dechrau filoedd o flynyddoedd yn ôl gydag un iaith gyndadol.