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Advanced Spanish: Language in context
Languages

Advanced Spanish: Language in context

...les da la gana, y se dedican a transgredir esas reglas que a la generación anterior le parecen tan importantes. Lo que pasa también es que, en los últimos años, o sea en lo que va de milenio (te estoy hablando de… de una o dos generaciones, como mucho ¿no?), el… el mundo de las comunicaciones ha experimentado una transformación tan vertiginosa que ha...
Introduction to Arabic
Education & Development

Introduction to Arabic

...verbs. Fatḥa: is a sign for the accusative case which concern both nouns and verbs. Sukūn: is a sign for the jussive case which concern verbs only. You are not expected to understand and apply this yet – declensions will be taught later in the Beginners Arabic Course with the Open Centre for Languages and Cultures. In Table 3 you can find the vowels with examples....
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Methods in Motion: An emerging politics of Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: An emerging politics of Brexit

...Le Pen may have lost in the second round, but she did manage to secure a substantial 34% of the vote. These recent political developments illustrate the demise of well-established and taken-for-granted political frameworks such as, for example, the fundamental distinction between the ‘left’ and the ‘right’ which for a long time constituted a key ideological anchor...
Advanced Spanish: Protest song
Languages

Advanced Spanish: Protest song

...told a lie” no puede traducirse por “Ella fue contada una mentira”, sino por: “Le contaron una mentira” o “Se le contó una mentira”. La pasiva con “se” Esta construcción es más común en el lenguaje hablado e informal. Se vende esta casa. Se discutieron varias ideas. No se puede usar “por” + el agente del verbo, como en inglés (‘several ideas were discussed by the workers’). Para expresar el agente, se debe ......
How emoji are changing the shape of everyday English
Languages

How emoji are changing the shape of everyday English

...verb (‘doing it for the lols’; ‘she lol’d’). Since emoji have replaced textspeak as the current focus for linguistic innovation (not to mention media obsessions about the way they might be ruining English), is a similar process of influence likely to happen here as well? Are emoji now such an integral part of everyday life that they’re leaving their stamp on...
Pineapples and Pashto: building intercultural competence through Peace Education
Education & Development

Pineapples and Pashto: building intercultural competence through Peace Education

...verb, the (sometimes hard) work and effort of co-operation and communication that human beings carry out in their everyday relationships with each other. What is intercultural competence? Peace and intercultural competence are intermingled in United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4:7, which calls for the ‘…promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global...
Rio 2016: South East Asia on the podium
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: South East Asia on the podium

...le Clos of South Africa in the 100m butterfly event at Rio 2016. Aside from Schooling, three other athletes from Southeast Asia have won a gold medal in Rio as of this writing. They were Thai weightlifters Sukanya Srisurat and Sopita Tanasan, and Vietnamese shooter Hoang Xuan Vinh. Schooling’s victory was special because it gave Singapore its first ever Olympic gold...
How do you become French President?
Society, Politics & Law

How do you become French President?

...Le Pen National Front FN 6,421,426 17.90% Jean-Luc Mélenchon Left Front FG 3,984,822 11.10% François Bayrou Democratic Movement MoDem 3,275,122 9.13% Eva Joly Europe Ecology – The Greens EELV 828,345 2.31% Nicolas Dupont-Aignan Republic Arise DLR 643,907 1.79% Philippe Poutou New Anticapitalist Party NPA 411,160 1.15% Nathalie Arthaud Workers' Struggle LO 202,548...