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Can your friend be your therapist?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can your friend be your therapist?

...everyday activities such as going for a walk or watching a light-hearted film (Borg and Davidson, 2008). There are things that trained therapists are better equipped and supported to do than friends, these include: opening up difficult emotional issues, identifying new ways of thinking about problems and challenging self-defeating beliefs and behaviours. Taking everything...
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Irish Women’s Poetry: Colette Bryce
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry: Colette Bryce

...everyday life for her, as a child and a teenager. She emigrated to Britain in 1988 and has since lived mainly in London and the north of England. Bryce describes emigration as a key experience in her adult life: it informs an ‘outsiderness’ in her poetry. Bryce often writes as if she were ‘at one remove’ from the mainstream. You might say this stems from her...
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Article 5 mins
Writing across cultures
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...[Xiaolu Guo] Transcript
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Teaching Spanish pronunciation
Languages

Teaching Spanish pronunciation

...English and Spanish share a common ancestry and, as a result, have a number of grammatical features in common. They also share a considerable amount of vocabulary. Nevertheless, their pronunciation is rather different. When a language is learnt, educators address differences to make sure students acquire competence in the various characteristics of the target language....
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Outside the Book
History & The Arts

Outside the Book

...English Literature from Shakespeare to Austen... Comedy An introduction to the part comedy plays in English Literature Tragedy An introduction to the Tragedy play in English Literature Two Styles of love An introduction to the love portrayed in Patrachan and Libertine Poetry. The Author An introduction to the concept of the Author in Literary Theory The Book An...
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Video 7 mins
Getting started with Chinese 2
Languages

Getting started with Chinese 2

...everyday contexts! This OpenLearn course is an extract from the Open Centre for Languages and Cultures short course, LGXC002 Beginners Chinese 2: 开始吧 kāishĭ ba! After completing this free course, you may wish to register for the full course to continue your learning!...Have you always wanted to speak Mandarin Chinese? Have you even started learning a few basic word...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The Language of Brexit
Languages

The Language of Brexit

...English word as late as December 2016 through its inclusion in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). The meaning is given as "the (proposed) withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union, and the political process associated with it". In linguistic terms, Brexit is both an English language phenomenon and a global language phenomenon. As well as its now-familiar...
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Choosing a Cosmic Name
Science, Maths & Technology

Choosing a Cosmic Name

...everyday lives the names of towns, villages, streets and buildings provide a shorthand to help us identify a location. The origins of many ancient place names can often be traced back to a geographical feature, or the names and activities of the people who lived there, although many of the original meanings have been obscured by changes in language, pronunciation and...
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Article 10 mins