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Intermediate French: Understanding spoken French
Languages

Intermediate French: Understanding spoken French

...du groupe, je fais beaucoup rire les gens, apparemment, et puis je pense que je suis aussi la confidente. Ce qui me rend heureuse dans la vie, c’est ma famille avant tout, mes amis et puis aussi ce que je fais dans la vie, c’est à dire mon métier et puis la chanson. Look at the list below while you listen to Peggy. Tick the piece of information that she doesn’t...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Explore the baking and culture of Europe: France
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Explore the baking and culture of Europe: France

...les jours. La baguette traditionnelle est bien meilleure lorsqu’elle est fraîche, ou même encore chaude, et c’est pour cette raison que les Français vont à la boulangerie de leur quartier au moins une fois par jour. La baguette est toujours le type de pain le plus répandu, mais il en existe beaucoup d’autres. Il y a de nombreuses sortes de pains blancs. On les...
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Activity 10 mins
Getting started with Italian 2
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Getting started with Italian 2

...le diciotto e trentacinque. It’s eighteen thirty-five. Sono le quindici e ventidue. It’s fifteen twenty-two. È l’una. It’s one o’clock. Note that in Italian, as in English, we do not use the expressions un quarto, mezza/mezzo and tre quarti when telling the time with the 24-hour clock. Instead, we use numbers: quindici, trenta and quarantacinque...Week 2:...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
What does Marine LePen plan for France?
Society, Politics & Law

What does Marine LePen plan for France?

...Le Pen’s has issued a 144-point manifesto on her ambitions for government, pledging to make France “free, safe, prosperous, fair, proud, powerful, and sustainable”. Not many people will have the inclination to read the lot, but I did. And what I discovered was a candidate who plans not so much to take France out of Europe as cut it free of the whole continent. The...
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Article 5 mins
French Presidential Election: What have we learned from the First Round?
Society, Politics & Law

French Presidential Election: What have we learned from the First Round?

...Le Pen. For a while it seemed as though a dead heat were on the cards but, in the end, Macron took first place, with nearly 24%, ahead of Le Pen at just under 22%. [The Conversation] Republican candidate François Fillon and far-left contender Jean-Luc Mélenchon followed close behind, with Socialist Benoît Hamon trailing badly. Despite coming second, for Le Pen and her...
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Article 5 mins
Creating a different world: Celebrating Ursula K LeGuin
History & The Arts

Creating a different world: Celebrating Ursula K LeGuin

...Le Guin] Hermaphrodite beings, dragon women, ambivalent utopias and sympathetic magic. Just a tiny taste of the fantasy and science fiction worlds created by Ursula K Le Guin, who has died at the ripe age of 88. Le Guin challenged everything that came before and opened up new ways of doing fantasy and science fiction, but she was also a poet, essayist, historical fiction...
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Article 5 mins
What does the French regional election result mean?
Society, Politics & Law

What does the French regional election result mean?

...Le Pen probably won’t be the next president of France, but the regional elections are proving that her Front National has truly become a major player. [Marine LePen at a 2008 event] Marine LePen in 2008 Le Pen’s party has taken 28% of the vote in the first of two rounds to elect regional assemblies. The right wing Republican Party, led by former president Nicolas...
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Article 5 mins
Cyfrifiannell Carbon Y Brifysgol Agored
Nature & Environment

Cyfrifiannell Carbon Y Brifysgol Agored

...DU (os ydych chi'n byw y tu allan i'r DU, gweler adnoddau pellach). Mae'r gyfrifiannell hon yn dechrau â'r holl nwyon tŷ gwydr a gaiff eu hallyrru yn y broses o gyflenwi'r hyn y mae'r DU yn ei ddefnyddio, gan gynnwys yr allyriadau sydd wedi'u hymgorffori mewn mewnforion. Wedyn, mae'n rhannu'r cyfanswm hwn â phoblogaeth y DU er mwyn rhoi'r allyriadau blynyddol...
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Activity 5 mins