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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

...Spanish, Native Americans, African and Caribbean slaves, Anglo-Americans, Germans, and Italians.​ Up to the middle of the twentieth century, most Americans knew the story of the Acadians thanks to Evangeline, an Acadian literary heroine who became an American icon. The epic poem Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847),written by New England poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,...
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Article 15 mins
Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change

...Spanish Secondary Schools’, Education Sciences, 10(5), p. 122. Read from Results (p. 5) to the end of the paper (p. 12). Abstract: The need to explore new forms of leadership in schools, among other available alternatives, leads to the reflection upon the way in which--specifically from the principal's office--it is developed, implemented and distributed. This paper...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn
Education & Development

The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn

...Spanish as the international medium of scholarship. These languages are in no danger of disappearing in higher education, but their world role has shrunk” (Altbach, 2004, p. 10). Within the context of OER more broadly, Hodgkinson-Williams and Trotter (2018) advocate for the integration of Indigenous knowledge and local languages to ensure cultural relevance and address...
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Article 10 mins
Why study languages?
Languages

Why study languages?

...spanish/christmas/index.shtml Christmas traditions around the world: http://www.santas.net/aroundtheworld.htm The Christmas Archives http://www.christmasarchives.com/index.html Christmas ideas for modern languages: http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/mfle/creativeteaching/christmasideas/index.asp Information and Christmas recipes from Denmark, Mexico, Sweden and Switzerland:...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
The First World War: trauma and memory
History & The Arts

The First World War: trauma and memory

...Spanish influenza epidemic, which struck at the end of the war and claimed as many as 350,000 victims in Germany, many of whom had been weakened by malnourishment. Astonishingly, these staggering figures have hardly been remembered in Germany, where the civilian losses of the Second World War have featured much more prominently in public memory. Estimates for these losses...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
English in the world today
Languages

English in the world today

...Spanish, barbacoa, ‘a framework of sticks set upon posts’, 1697 KETCHUP from the Chinese (Amoy dialect), ketchiap, a sauce, 1711 GHOUL from the Arabic, ghul, an evil spirit, 1786 DINGHY from the Hindi, dengi, 1794 PYJAMAS from the Urdu, paejamah, 1801 CAFETERIA from the Spanish, 1839 TYCOON from the Japanese, taikun, meaning ‘great lord’, 1857 RUCKSACK from the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Continuity and learning
Education & Development

Continuity and learning

...Spanish. Found that wasn’t for me, didn’t enjoy it at all. So that I went into NatWest Bank and worked my way up there, became sort of in-house financial advisor, and lasted about four years there until I really don’t want to do this anymore. So I went to work for a specialist learning disabilities company that helped remediate learning difficulty through exercise....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Dutch painting of the Golden Age
History & The Arts

Dutch painting of the Golden Age

...Spanish despotism of church and crown’, and the development of a new form of art that was rooted in the activities and accomplishments of its citizens. Hegel contends that the ‘final achievement’ of Dutch painting lies in ‘its utterly living absorption in the world and its daily life’ and that we should therefore not ‘suppose that they should have avoided such...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs