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Intermediate German: The world of work
Languages

Intermediate German: The world of work

...English are given at the start of each activity to make it easier to quickly complete the task. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course L223 German studies 2: language and culture of the German-speaking world...Intermediate German: The world of work: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Language of Poverty
Society, Politics & Law

Language of Poverty

...English, the Scottish and so on, as well as people who were skilled workers, unskilled workers, people in very precarious forms of employment. And those divisions have always existed to be exploited and, from the 1980s onwards, many of those internal divisions widened for various reasons, not least because of deindustrialisation, consigning many traditional industrial...
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Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink
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Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink

...English. Escucha y contesta. Now it’s time for another programme in our documentary series En portada. This one is about the market hall in Valencia, El Mercado Central, where the architecture, atmosphere and the quality of the fresh produce makes shopping there a unique experience. Presentadora Bienvenidos a En portada. En el programa de hoy vamos de compras al Mercado...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Vaccination
Science, Maths & Technology

Vaccination

...everyday life, but how do they work? Vaccination is a free course that will help those with a background in biology understand the historical development of vaccination, assess the various types of vaccines used today, examine their production and explore the limitations that are placed on vaccination programmes...Vaccinations are now considered a part of everyday life,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Introducing ICT systems
Digital & Computing

Introducing ICT systems

...everyday lives. This free course, Introducing ICT systems, will explain what constitutes such a system and how ICT systems work. You will also look at how ICT systems convey, store and manipulate data, and how they process data. Finally you will learn how these systems are used...Information and communication technologies (ICTs) systems now dominate our everyday lives....
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Newry: Frontier town or border city?
Society, Politics & Law

Newry: Frontier town or border city?

...English army in Ireland when war broke out between forces loyal to the crown, led by Newry based Sir Henry Bagenal and those loyal to Hugh O’Neill. Newry would once again wear the mantle of frontier town, in the Ireland of the 1920s, when Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State became two separate entities. The initial border between North and South was drawn just...
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Article 15 mins
Ada Lovelace Day
Science, Maths & Technology

Ada Lovelace Day

...English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it. If you speak to him of a machine for peeling a potato, he will pronounce it impossible: if you peel a potato with it before his eyes, he will declare it useless, because it will not slice a pineapple. When he died of kidney failure in 1871, Charles Babbage was practically unknown to the...
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“Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth”: why Good Friday Agreement affects the Irish language
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“Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth”: why Good Friday Agreement affects the Irish language

...English Only’ territory. Like many other language indicators, this was by design, not by accident. The plan: why Good Friday Agreement signalled hope for the Irish language revival That is why the Good Friday Agreement was to be a watershed turning point in the state’s relationship with the language and its ever-growing community of speakers and learners. Under the...
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