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Start writing fiction
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction

...Spanish ancestry and had never been to Spain but was obsessed with Spain and he’d lost all his money, he didn’t have a hacienda or anything. But he still somehow clung on to that colonial past even though it was a long, long time ago. And there was something about that that just interested me and I kind of lifted him out and dropped him in there and some you just...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course

...Spanish. 我是西班牙人 wǒ shì xī bān yá rén Audio 17 Then, if you want to know the specific area in the country someone is from you would ask: 你是中国什么地方人？ nĭ shì zhōng guó shén me dì fang rén? = What place in China are you from? (lit. you are China what place person?) 您是英国什么地方人？ nĭ shì zhōng guó shén me dì fang...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...Spanish Civil War had a profound effect on her thinking is clear, as she was supportive of socialist and anti-fascist movements. Her nephew Julian Bell went to Spain as an ambulance driver for the Republicans where he was killed in July 1937. As Naomi Black says, the links ‘between sexism, war and fascism seem to have become evident to Woolf sometime in the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Living without oil
Science, Maths & Technology

Living without oil

...Spanish tomatoes have many more food miles attached to them. Why might this be true? The UK-grown tomatoes would have to be grown in heated glasshouses, which could easily involve the consumption of more energy (and the emission of more greenhouse gases) than that required to transport tomatoes from Spain, where they could be grown outdoors or in unheated glasshouses....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The poetry of Sorley MacLean
History & The Arts

The poetry of Sorley MacLean

...Spanish Civil War does not form the background to these poems, but is the protagonist. The test of whether or not to go to Spain was a deep test of who he was, and therefore a test of the quality of his love’ (Ross, R.J. and Hendry, J. eds, 1986, Sorley MacLean: critical essays, Scottish Academic Press, p. 49). ...The poetry of Sorley MacLean: 2.2.1 The recordings -...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Wilberforce
History & The Arts

Wilberforce

...Spanish in 1827. In the opinion of Daniel Wilson, a prominent Evangelical clergyman in the next generation, ‘Never, perhaps, did any volume by a layman on a religious subject, produce a deeper or more sudden effect’ (‘Introduction to Wilberforce’s Practical View 1829, p. xvii). Its appeal was attributable in part to the prominence of its author, both as politician...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
A Europe of the Regions?
Society, Politics & Law

A Europe of the Regions?

...Spanish in Spain), except that they see federalisation not as a promise but as a threat to ‘their’ state. They therefore generally oppose anything but the most minimal forms of centrally-controlled administrative devolution, and where more substantial types of devolution or federalisation exist they may act to curtail or remove them. But – in a further twist to the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
The oceans
Science, Maths & Technology

The oceans

...Spanish coast water temperatures are warmer on the east side than the west. And it is a remnant of a warm water current called the Gulf Stream which flows across the Atlantic Ocean towards Northern Europe. In subsequent sections you will see that the shape of the ocean basins (Section 2) combined with the properties of seawater (Section 3) and the ocean currents (Section...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs