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How to learn a language

...system and with the fact that Mandarin is a tonal language, and where there are no similarities with English in the vocabulary, grammar or syntax. There are many estimates of how long it may take a learner to reach each of the CEFR levels, but as a guideline, it might take you a couple of hundred hours to move between each of the six levels. As I’ve already said,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations

...systemically and collectively. When things go wrong with leadership, the temptation is always to fixate on the traits of the individual leader. Doing so can be far more straightforward than asking more difficult questions of the organisation or even our systems of thought that seem to place so much faith in individual leaders. In fact it is a major failing of the traits...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
What chemical compounds might be present in drinking water?
Science, Maths & Technology

What chemical compounds might be present in drinking water?

...system. Video 2 The dissolution of sodium in ammonia. What is seen upon the dissolution of sodium in ammonia in Video 2? Alkali metals, such as sodium, dissolve reversibly to give blue solutions (in contrast to their more familiar vigorous reactions with water). The blue colour is thought to arise from electrons solvated by ammonia molecules...What chemical compounds...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Developing good academic practice
Education & Development

Developing good academic practice

...system must be able to measure and recognise each student’s abilities. Thus, in fairness to all students, it is essential that the work you present for grading really is a true reflection of your abilities and does not consist of work produced by other people. How would you feel about other students who seemed to be doing better than you and were getting better grades,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
The many guises of the emperor Augustus
History & The Arts

The many guises of the emperor Augustus

...system was breaking apart and Rome was plunged into two bitter civil wars between powerful political and military figures, such as Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, one after the other. Augustus – at this stage still called Octavian – was the last man standing after the second civil war, and this is how he came to be in control of the Roman state. [Figure 2: This image...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Using data to aid organisational change
Money & Business

Using data to aid organisational change

...systems in multinational companies or you might have a management issue you want to address, such as why the career progression of women in the construction industry is slower than men’s in the same industry. Alternatively, your sponsoring organisation might like you to carry out a specific project that will benefit the organisation itself. For example, it might need a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...system and refrigerator doors that could be opened from the inside. What do we mean by ‘dead’? And who should declare when an individual is dead? A priest? A lawyer? A doctor? A machine? Owen discussed these issues at a symposium in Brazil with the Dalai Lama and says he was surprised to find that they both agreed strongly on one point: we need to create an ethical...
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Article 15 mins
Teaching secondary geography
Education & Development

Teaching secondary geography

...system for classifying levels of learning behaviour. ‘Creating’ is at the top of the classification. The intentional use of verbs in the classification highlights our understanding of learning as being an active process (Tarlinton, 2003). Creativity is a process and you can’t be creative if you don’t do something. Creativity involves the use of higher-order...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs