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Introduction to Arabic
Education & Development

Introduction to Arabic

...alphabet, vowels, and also a little bit about the history of the Arabic language...This free OpenLearn course is a two week pre-course for the Open University short course Introduction to Arabic Language and Culture by the Open Centre for Languages and Cultures. Completing this course will take you about four hours. This course focuses on the most basic steps in learning...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
How India reacted to Sundar Pichai's new role at Google - and what will he do?
Science, Maths & Technology

How India reacted to Sundar Pichai's new role at Google - and what will he do?

...Alphabet, everyone in India has their eyes set on the company's new 43 year-old CEO – Sundar Pichai. [Sundar Pichai] Hundreds and thousands of people rejoiced on social media when India-born Pichai ascended to the most powerful job at the world's biggest technology company Google. Looking forward to interviews with neighbors of Sundar Pichai and scenes of sweet...
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Article 5 mins
Getting started on ancient Greek
History & The Arts

Getting started on ancient Greek

...alphabet and effective ways to memorise it, before building up to complete Greek words and sentences. Along the way, you will see numerous real examples of Greek as written on objects from the ancient world...This free course, Getting started on ancient Greek, offers a taster of the ancient Greek world through the study of one of its most distinctive and enduring...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Chinese at the tip of your tongue: A glimpse of Chinese
Languages

Chinese at the tip of your tongue: A glimpse of Chinese

...alphabet. Pinyin was adopted as the official system in the People’s Republic of China in 1958. In Mandarin Chinese there are four tones. Each syllable has a definite tone and syllables with different tones mean different things. For example, the character chē, carries the first tone, whereas chĕ with the third tone means to tear. Here are some terms for transport that...
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Video 5 mins
Edward Lear's Nonsense Songs
History & The Arts

Edward Lear's Nonsense Songs

...Alphabets contains the much loved poem, 'The Owl and Pussycat'. Whilst researching her own sequel, children’s author Julia Donaldson discovered that Lear wrote – but never completed – his own follow-up. In this fragment the cat falls out of a tree and the “elegant fowl” goes demented with grief – treading the characteristically fine line between joy and...
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Article 5 mins
An informal and friendly introduction to British Sign Language
Education & Development

An informal and friendly introduction to British Sign Language

...alphabet Right handed finger spelling Days of the week Months Colours Weather Greetings Animals Emotions Five Ws and one H Summary We hope the short videos have been a useful resource and inspire you to go on and learn more. Additional resources and acknowledgements Action on Hearing Loss More information on British Sign Language Deaf awareness education course on...
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Video 20 mins
The Naming of Asteroids
Science, Maths & Technology

The Naming of Asteroids

...so the remaining 25 letters of the alphabet enable 25 asteroids to be designated during each half-month period. When this number is exceeded, the letter code sequence is repeated as any times as necessary with a numerical subscript that is incremented every 25 discoveries (so that 1989 AC1 would indicate the 28th discovery during the first half of January 1989)....
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Article 5 mins
Learning with braille – more than just joining the dots
Education & Development

Learning with braille – more than just joining the dots

...alphabet 1 2 3 4 5 1 A B C D E 2 F G H I/J K 3 L M N O P 4 Q R S T U 5 V W X Y Z Jump forward a few millennia to the France of Napoleon Bonaparte who wanted his soldiers to be able to communicate silently and in the dark. This led Captain Charles Barbier de la Serre to develop his Ecriture Nocturne (night reading) system. Barbier used a 6x6 grid with raised dots to...
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Article 10 mins