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Teaching Spanish pronunciation
Languages

Teaching Spanish pronunciation

...business, it is an EXport business. Whereas in Spanish, it is common to keep the accent on the lexically stressed syllable. No es un negocio de importaCIÓN, es un negocio de exportaCIÓN...Week 3 Stress, rhythm and intonation: 5.2 Indefinite objects - In English, indefinite object pronouns are usually deaccented and pitch accent is placed on the verb. I KNOW someone. I...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Digital communications
Digital & Computing

Digital communications

...businesses to the first telephone exchange. Here I will make the distinction between the access network (from homes or businesses to the first telephone exchange – also called the last mile, local loop, or subscriber network) and the core network (between exchanges, also called the trunk network). As demand for capacity has risen, however, the merits of optical fibre...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
An introduction to artificial intelligence
Education & Development

An introduction to artificial intelligence

...business and the workplace. We are also leading the way in developing short courses for academic research methods and pre-sessional English with IELTS, which will be available for registration in due course. The Open Centre for Languages and Cultures is an international leader in online language learning and intercultural communications, built on our pioneering pedagogy...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Richard Tol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Richard Tol - Stories of Change

...business of the direction of travel, massively helps with long-term investment. The problem is it relies on government commitment - steady government commitment - unremitting over decades and that's something we'll never see. RT: That's exactly one of the problems with climate policy, right? The only solution to the climate problem is if we decarbonise the economy, right?...
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Introducing Homer's Iliad
History & The Arts

Introducing Homer's Iliad

...busy. By contrast, you might never have had a dispute over the boundaries of a piece of land (though perhaps you have!). For the original audience, however, these scenes might have seemed equally familiar. Many people would have led lives centred on agriculture, and so issues of land management would have been a part of everyday life. Passages like this in the Iliad are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Accessibility of eLearning
Education & Development

Accessibility of eLearning

...business terms, it is good practice to make a product available to as wide a market as possible. A design that incorporates the requirements for disabled students is likely to be more accessible and useful for non-disabled students than a design without such consideration. To design something (eLearning materials, for example) with the needs of disabled people in mind is...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Beginners’ German: Places and people
Languages

Beginners’ German: Places and people

...busy restaurant. The customers are trying to attract the waiter’s attention. What does each group want? Group 5 This group wants a table they have reserved Group 3 This group wants to attract the waiter's attention Group 1 This group wants the menu Group 2 This group wants to order Group 4 This group wants to pay Group 6 This group wants to query the bill Two lists...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Goya
History & The Arts

Goya

...busy working on this theme. Other than that, there's not a lot we have to go on. We do know that Goya went to Italy, staying in Pama and Rome, and in doing so availed himself of the ideal grounding for an eighteenth century artist. This kind of training would serve as a n ideal preparation for work in the Royal Palaces, whose staff he was trying to join through a network...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs