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...everyday activities you do, including how to tell the time. You will also learn the present tense form of some common verbs and how to pronounce the ‘r’ sound. This OpenLearn course is an extract from the beginning of the Open Centre for Languages and Cultures short course LGXS002: Beginners Spanish 2: ¡En marcha! After completing this free course, you may wish to...

...English with his school friends. His parents came to the US from Mexico before he was born. His father, Liborio Reynoso, says seeing his son compete in their native language is a massive point of pride. “Oh man!” he says. “My first language, my native language. We want our language to grow up here in this country.” It wasn’t that long ago that first-generation...

...English as lingua franca in international contexts, and get a flavour of the skills involved in language-related professions such as translation and interpreting...Explore the multiple relationships between languages and cultures. In this free course you will learn about the benefits and challenges of meeting people from different cultures and the ways in which language...

...English accent. Speakers with a foreign accent are shown to be discriminated against within the housing and job markets too which, obviously, might have a huge impact on their lives. Discriminatory or unjust treatment based on a person’s accent or language use is called accentism. While race, religion, gender identity and sexual orientation are protected characteristics...

...English Spain has many different breads, but the product that best reflects the geographic and cultural diversity is the empanada, because each region has adapted the fillings to the local produce. Religion has played a very important role in shaping Spanish baking traditions. During the Muslim invasion, Spaniards stated their Christianity by eating a lot of pork, hence...

...everyday lives. It provides an introduction to ideas around what language is and to the field of Applied Linguistics, which is dedicated to exploring and addressing situations where language plays a crucial role...This free course, Language in the real world, explains and illustrates why a knowledge about how language works (i.e. ‘linguistics’) is helpful – some...