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Languages
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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Languages
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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Languages
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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Languages
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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Languages
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.
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Languages
Grammar matters
Grammar matters because, combined with vocabulary choice, it is our main way of making meaning. This free course introduces you to one approach used to understand how meanings relate systematically to different aspects of grammar and shows how this deeper understanding can be applied to make everyday communication more effective.
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French for travel: Test your skills
Test your French language skills as you immerse yourself on an interactive journey through France.
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History & The Arts
From old English to modern English
Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Vikings - how did they impact the English language? Marisa Lohr traces the origins and development of the English language, from its early beginnings around 450 AD to the modern global language we use today.
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Languages
David Bowie: identity is creativity
Frank Monaghan explores how David Bowie's constant evolution wasn't just about changing the nature of his art - his reinventions were his art.
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Sofas, car seats and toilet seats: where are your tweets read?
@FRosellAguilar is an avid Twitter user who one day tweeted the public a very important question; "where do you engage with Twitter? " From the bathroom toilet to driving - nowhere is excluded when it comes to Twitter.
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Advanced Spanish: Language in context
This free course, Advanced Spanish: Language in context, will develop your knowledge and understanding of the societies and cultures of Spain and Latin America and extend the practical skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. The course focuses on the many ways in which living languages - notably Spanish - adapt to the contexts in ...