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Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...Spanish, I was hoping to make some English friends and learn some English folk music. Unfortunately, the director insisted on talking to me as though I could barely understand English, perhaps because I had to keep translating guitar chord names from ‘C–D–E’ to ‘do–re–mi’. Despite my best efforts to demonstrate that I was able to give perfectly articulate...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
‘Rule Britannia, Britannia Rules the Waves’: From fishing patriotism to pragmatism
Nature & Environment

‘Rule Britannia, Britannia Rules the Waves’: From fishing patriotism to pragmatism

...Spanish vessels with rights to catch high percentages of the quota for some major fish stocks of interest to UK fishermen. It is these vessels that have often attracted the negative attention of UK fishers. It’s the processing sector, not the catching sector, that generates most of the economic activity in fishing. Processing is the silent core of the industry, and...
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Article 5 mins
The working-class garden
Society, Politics & Law

The working-class garden

...Spanish were persecuting them as Protestants. Laurie Taylor: Suddenly the word efflorescence occurs to me. A working class interest in gardening and in flowers. You talk about the way in which the handloom weavers were particularly interested in developing flowers and their position at home enabling them to get on with. Here’s an East End physician – this is from the...
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Article 15 mins
Different types of business
Money & Business

Different types of business

...Spanish supermarket chain, which employs over 74,000 people in total. In 2014 it had 1499 supermarkets all over Spain. It was founded in 1977 by married couple Francisco Roig Ballester and Trinidad Alfonso Mocholi as a small butcher’s shop and is still owned by the family. [Described image] Figure 3 Mercadona supermarket Mercadona competes successfully against...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Getting started with French 1
Languages

Getting started with French 1

...Spanish italien italienne Italian anglais anglaise English allemand allemande German...Week 2: Names and nationality: 2 Saying your name and nationality - Now have a go at Activity 2. Activity 2 [Described image] Figure 3 Listen to a variety of people giving their nationality and match their names to the correct nationality. Maria Salut ! Je m’appelle Maria. Je suis...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Art and the Mexican Revolution
History & The Arts

Art and the Mexican Revolution

...Spanish forces between 1519 and 1521. These themes tie the iconography of the main wall to the north wall, which depicts the Aztec world. Here, the central iconographic feature is Quetzalcóatl – the important Meso-American mythological figure – in front of an Aztec pyramid. Arranged around him are a seated group of white-robed admirers as well as other figure groups...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Erzberger: Negotiating the Armistice for Germany
History & The Arts

Erzberger: Negotiating the Armistice for Germany

...Spanish flu epidemic, about three million dead were mourned. Now the country was being humiliated by vindictive victors, leading to resentment of those who had signed the Armistice agreement and the subsequent peace agreement at Versailles. Most prominently among them was the Catholic Centre Party politician Matthias Erzberger. His role in the Armistice negotiations and...
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Article 15 mins
From insecurity to insecurity: Black and Ethnic Minority Europeans in the UK
Society, Politics & Law

From insecurity to insecurity: Black and Ethnic Minority Europeans in the UK

...Spanish woman in her early 50s, brings up the political situation straight away: ‘The main concern is the current political situation, because we only have European citizenship, not British citizenship. We will see what happens.’ While other participants were more preoccupied with personal concerns, all our interview partners were keen to contest the idea that...
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Article 5 mins