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Language and thought: introducing representation
History & The Arts

Language and thought: introducing representation

...verbs: they're the proudest – adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs – however, I can manage the whole lot of them! Impenetrability! That's what I say!’ ‘Would you tell me please,’ said Alice, ‘what that means?’ ‘Now you talk like a reasonable child,’ said Humpty Dumpty, looking very much pleased. ‘I meant by “impenetrability” that...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Extending and developing your thinking skills
Education & Development

Extending and developing your thinking skills

...verbs. Words to describe thinking finding, deciding, solving, justifying, remembering, planning, arguing, identifying, speculating, calculating, comparing, deducing, presuming, analysing, summarising, hypothesising, evaluating, sequencing, ordering, sorting, classifying, grouping, predicting, concluding, distinguishing, creating, planning, testing, assessing (Adapted from...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Rhyddhau amrywiaeth y gorffennol
History & The Arts

Rhyddhau amrywiaeth y gorffennol

...le. Mae'r llyfr, A Practical Guide to Searching LGBQIA Historic Records, hefyd yn ddefnyddiol fel adnodd cymorth mewn technegau ymchwil. Wrth ddefnyddio'r fethodoleg hon, rydych yn dechrau gweld straeon bach yn ymddangos. Mae'r rhan fwyaf ohonynt yn ymddangos yn nhudalennau papurau newydd fel llenwadau, y darnau ‘ac i gloi’ hynny sydd wedi eu hanelu at ddifyrru neu...
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Article 5 mins
Getting started with German 1
Languages

Getting started with German 1

...Verb forms: Ich komme (I come) Er kommt (he comes)/ sie kommt (she comes) You may have filled the boxes in differently, or you may have a different idea about how to build on what you’re learning. Your learning journey is personal, so you need to keep notes in a way that is appropriate to you. Take some time, now, to establish your own personal language notebook. You...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...Le vite de’ più eccelenti pittori, scultori e architettori (Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects; first edition 1550 and revised 1568) that the architect Filippo Brunelleschi (1377–1446) was initially apprenticed to a goldsmith ‘to the end that he might learn design’ (Vasari, 1996 [1568], vol. 1, p. 326). According to Vasari, several other Italian...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course

...le gu ku hu wo yi You will then hear some consonants, or initials, combined with the final i. Listen and repeat. ji qi xi zi ci si zhi chi shi ri You will now hear six single vowels known as finals in Chinese. Repeat after each sound. a e i o u ü Now we will combine these vowels with some consonants known as initials in Chinese. Note how similar they sound to some...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Ymdopi ag Iselder
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ymdopi ag Iselder

...Le vide, y gwagle, y gwacter ac mae o’n ... ofnadwy. [Stephen Fry] Sylwadau Er bod teimladau o ofn a thristwch fel arfer yn ymatebion priodol a normal i bethau sy’n digwydd mewn bywyd, maen nhw’n gallu datblygu i fod mor oruchafol ac anodd eu trin nes bod pobl yn gofyn am help proffesiynol i ddelio â nhw. Mae'r anawsterau hyn yn aml yn cael eu hystyried yn...
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Article 30 mins
Approaching prose fiction
History & The Arts

Approaching prose fiction

...verb used to describe the dialogue is the verb ‘to go’, which gives us no clue as to how the words are spoken. This breeds a sense of uncertainty in the reader, I think, and as with Woolf's elevated tone and language this strategy is deliberate, I would suggest. Although the story is narrated in the first-person I get a strong impression that the narrator, Duane, does...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs