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Can cartoons help keep indigenous Mexican languages alive?
Languages

Can cartoons help keep indigenous Mexican languages alive?

...languages of Mexico alive...“You can't love what you don't know” is the premise of ‘68 tongues, 68 hearts’, an animated project aimed at preserving and sharing the indigenous languages of Mexico. The project aims to promote pride, respect, and encourage the use of the indigenous languages of Mexico, through a series of animated stories narrated in these languages...
Test your language skills: Spanish, French, Italian and German
Languages

Test your language skills: Spanish, French, Italian and German

How are your language skills? Heading off on a trip to Spain, France, Italy or Germany and want to know how you'd fare getting by? Find out with our virtual, interactive adventures and test your language skills on the way!
Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales
Languages

Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales

...language of the French animals which disconcerts them most. Of course, apart from landscape and cultural habits, language is another major identity marker which contributes to creating a sense of identity. ‘Tit Edvard’s and Télésphore’s linguistic experiences recall the debate about which French is to be promoted in Louisiana: Standard French or vernacular French,...
A school reaches for the stars with an online astronomy course
Science, Maths & Technology

A school reaches for the stars with an online astronomy course

...courses and qualifications. [Observatorio del Teide in Tenerife] Denny High School in Scotland has been helping to develop and test an ambitious and innovative new course - Astronomy with an online telescope. The eight-week badged course allows participants the unique opportunity to use one of The Open University’s two telescopes located at the Observatorio del Teide in...
Hafan: What do you know about Welsh language and culture?
Languages

Hafan: What do you know about Welsh language and culture?

...free alternative like Google Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Enjoy learning about Welsh language & culture? If you enjoyed Hafan, you may be interested in finding out more about Wales and Welsh by doing our short online course ‘Discovering Wales and Welsh’. For more information go to on the course select here. A free taster is available on OpenLearn in our ......
Machine translation – using online tools to improve your language learning
Education & Development

Machine translation – using online tools to improve your language learning

...Language courses and qualifications. If you are trying to learn a language in the age of readily available free online translation tools such as Google Translate or DeepL then you probably know that many teachers’ and learners’ attitudes to these tools are – to say the least – ambivalent. They are often considered an all-too-easy shortcut, or worse, an invitation...
Machine translation – using online tools to improve your language teaching
Education & Development

Machine translation – using online tools to improve your language teaching

...Language courses and qualifications. The free online translation tool DeepL is currently among the top globally visited websites, and everyday millions of users translate billions of characters with its help, or the help of the similarly successful Google Translate. Research shows that 99% of language students at the OU – and indeed 100% of language teachers! – are...
Catalan resurgent: how a language has gone from ban to boom
Languages

Catalan resurgent: how a language has gone from ban to boom

...language, was considered a way of being free … No one was talking about history. No one was talking about politics. But people were talking in Catalan. And they considered that a fundamental way of resisting, or being apart from official Spain, or the regime. This Catalan reaction is also expressed by a Catalan writer exiled in Mexico, Pere Calders, in his 1955 short...