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Describing language

...world. What makes a language? We use language in all its forms – speech, writing, signing – all day, every day, but we don’t often think about what language is and how it works. This week you’ll have a chance to do just that. You’ll start by thinking about how words work and how they are made and you’ll consider whether something can be ‘putdownable’, just...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Managing coastal environments
Nature & Environment

Managing coastal environments

...world. The mudflats, too, support abundant life, and many of the species found here occur only in estuaries. It has been calculated that one square metre of mud can hold 1,200 worms, while 15,000 snails (Hydrobia ulvae) can graze on its surface. The saltmarsh forms a coastal ecosystem here with a rich variety of ecosystem salt-tolerant plants (Figure 4). Above, there is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
On-screen graphic design: The early years of television
Science, Maths & Technology

On-screen graphic design: The early years of television

...world. A notable exception is America in which their use of computers was at a far more advanced stage, with the technology improving at a greater rate there, than in it was in Britain. A new medium is born On the 27th January 1926 in Soho, London, John Logie Baird was making history by successfully demonstrating his primitive television system to a public audience....
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Article 15 mins
Doug Allan - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Doug Allan - Earth in Vision

...world’s best known and respected cameramen. He specialises in natural history, expeditions and science documentaries in some of the wildest and most remote places on our planet, particularly the polar zones working for the BBC, Discovery, National Geographic and many others, filming for series like The Blue Planet, Planet Earth, Human Planet, Frozen Planet, Ocean Giants...
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Video 35 mins
Speeches and speech-making
History & The Arts

Speeches and speech-making

...world – something that the Russians had been referring to her as, which she then turned to her own advantage. All these images of strength she pulled together in response to the events she was saying and created a caricature, which wasn’t entirely flattering, but was very much to her advantage, and it was one that lives on to this day really. Presenter Women are...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Richard Brock - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Richard Brock - Earth in Vision

...world filming on various series for the BBC, so it just grew from there. And I got more and more interested in conservation from what I saw and that’s why I’m trying to do something about it in my own way. How I got started… Well I applied to the BBC in Bristol, which was very small then, there was probably only 50 people if that, and I was eventually taken on as a...
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Video 30 mins
The Enlightenment
History & The Arts

The Enlightenment

...world. (Stendhal, Racine and Shakespeare, 1825; 1962 edn, p. 144) This course looks at a period of 50 years or so during which European culture underwent one of the most profound and far-reaching changes in its history. This occurred against a background of political and social turmoil and transformation equally unprecedented, marked by revolution, war and the beginnings...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?
Languages

Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?

...world, the ability to switch between languages is common - and possibly innate. Gaia Vance asks if monoglots are missing out on something important...[Translating Prohibited sign] In the Czech Republic, signs prohibit the translation of sightseeing tours are an attempt to prevent foreign tourists being fleeced by a huge mark-up In a café in south London, two construction...
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Article 10 mins