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Beginners’ French: food and drink
Improve your language skills by learning to communicate more easily and effectively in French. In this free course, Beginners' French: food and drink, you will also gain an insight into French societies and cultures through focusing on food and drink. You will listen to French speakers in a variety of situations, and you will be provided with ...
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Democracy in Catalonia, Spain
In Catalonia, young people are questioning what democracy means and challenging the authority of the Spanish state.
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Advanced French: At the science museum in Paris
Using the topic of science and technology in France, this free course, Advanced French: At the science museum in Paris, will show you how to structure arguments, write a summary, use the subjunctive, report numbers and express wishes in French.
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Cultures
In this free course, Cultures, you will address the question of traditional music and music from the francophone world, and you will examine the place they occupy in the world of artistic creation. The course is divided into three sections: 'Is traditional music, current music?', 'The musical heritage of Normandy' and 'Music of the francophone ...
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Could you be a super linguist?
Whether you are monolingual or speak more than one language, test your linguist skills with our short quiz and see how many languages you correctly identify.
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Speak in colours!
What does 'rire jaune' or 'avoir un bleu' mean? Learn French idioms that use colour to convey a particular mood or impression of a person or situation.
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A Clockwork Orange: ultraviolence, Russian spies and fake news
Cinemas have re-released 'A Clockwork Orange' as part of thhe British Film Institute's celebration of Stanley Kubrick. Here Philip Seargeant delves into the famous and film, and dystopia in popular culture.
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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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How to be a critical reader
In this free course you will focus on how to be a critical reader. Reading critically is an essential skill at university. It means being aware of your own purposes and opinions as you read and being able to recognise the writer's purposes and opinions in their writing.
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Intermediate Italian: describing people
This free course, Intermediate Italian: describing people, requires some basic knowledge of Italian. It focuses on describing both physical appearance and personality, as well as on developing listening skills and work on pronunciation.
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The psychological benefits of multilingualism
Read as Séverine Hubscher-Davidson explains how being multilingual can improve your patience and performance, whilst helping you to regulate your emotions.
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Teaching Languages for long-term memory
At Michaela Community School, we believe that ‘memory is the residue of thought’ (Daniel Willingham). To help pupils get language into their long-term memory, we need them to be focused on the traditional activities that concentrate thoughts on the language: translation, dictation, reading, listening, and short writing and speaking tasks.