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Digital & Computing
From boom to bust: the AI winter
This article explains perceptrons and what this had to do with an AI hiatus from the late 1960s.
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Languages
Methods in Motion: The middle children
Dr Sarah Crafter explores how child language brokers act as cultural mediators of identity and belonging.
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Languages
Stories from Vienna: 6 key figures
Read the stories of some of Vienna’s people who are commemorated in place names around the city.
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Languages
About The Open Centre for Languages and Cultures
Welcome to the OpenLearn Hub of the Open Centre for Languages and Cultures, a collection of free taster courses in a range of languages and communication-related subjects.
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Languages
Spanish for travel: Test your skills
Test your Spanish language skills as you immerse yourself on an interactive journey through Spain.
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Languages
What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?
'Why don't migrants learn English if they want to live here?' is one of those sentiments you'll have come across a lot if you've spent much time on Twitter. Maybe it's even flittered across your own mind from time to time. But, as Dr Ingrid Piller explains, just learning a language isn't as simple as that.
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History & The Arts
Writing across cultures
Xiaolu Guo explains how she approached her novel, A Concise Chinese–English Dictionary for Lovers - making creativity work across the English and Chinese languages
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History & The Arts
Hedd Wyn: how the life of one of Wales’ most promising poets was cut short by the first world war
Wales lost one of its most gifted poets, Hedd Wyn, on the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele.
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History & The Arts
Living Shakespeare: Hong Ying on China and the sonnets
Shakespeare's sonnets were once banned in China and are now popular with the gay community. Hong Ying, author of ‘Daughter of the River’ looks at Shakespeare’s sonnets as they relate to sexuality and love in China.
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Languages
“Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth”: why Good Friday Agreement affects the Irish language
Why has The Good Friday Agreement left a mark on the Irish language? Dr Pádraig Ó Tiarnaigh traces the language’s history and recent revival.
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Languages
Welcome to nowhere special
Ingrid Piller despairs of the rise of banal cosmopolitanism