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Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution
History & The Arts

Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution

...Mandarins (1954). Her autobiography is published in four volumes: Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (1958), The Prime of Life (1960), Force of Circumstance (1963), and All Said and Done (1972). She engaged in the traditional philosophical essay format in The Ethics of Ambiguity (1947). You shall read from arguably her most famous work, which has become a classic of feminist...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
How do empires work?
History & The Arts

How do empires work?

...Mandarin is not ‘China’, but Zhongguo, which means ‘central kingdom’. Its ideology emphasised the Chinese emperor’s supreme position, ruling by ‘mandate of heaven’, superior to all other states. In the century up to 1839, the Qing had extended by colonising its outer reaches, by military campaigns against northern and western border kingdoms, which were made...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Getting started with Chinese business culture essentials
Languages

Getting started with Chinese business culture essentials

...Mandarin Chinese. Nǐ hăo or nín hăo? 你好 nǐ hăo (lit. you good/well) is the most commonly used greeting in Chinese and can be used throughout the day. Its more formal or polite form is 您好 nín hăo (hello/how do you do?) which is used when you meet somebody for the first time or if you greet someone who is senior to you, either in terms of age or status. Activ...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace
Education & Development

An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace

...Mandarin) and Brazil (first language Brazilian Portuguese) speak English with each other, then English becomes the lingua franca. If one of the managers from Brazil spoke Mandarin with managers from China, because he learned it in school, then Mandarin is not the lingua franca as it is the native tongue of one of the speakers. Activity 9 Timing: 20 minutes Power...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
AI fluency
Digital & Computing

AI fluency

...Mandarin, but your friend does not. Your friend enters a room filled with symbols and a rulebook. The rulebook states: ‘When you see this symbol, answer with that symbol’. You are outside the room, sending your friend a message in Mandarin. Your friend, inside the room, does not understand Mandarin, but follows the rulebook. They look at the symbols, figure out the...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Language in the real world
Languages

Language in the real world

...Mandarin Chinese, Shona and Spanish – in three different cultural settings. Try to observe as if encountering language for the first time. Make a list of things that all the extracts have in common and a list of things that are different. Include observations on as many aspects of communication as possible (e.g. meanings, body language, sounds, grammar, social...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
English in the world today
Languages

English in the world today

...Mandarin Chinese. I first moved to London with my family when I was ten years old, knowing my alphabet up to K. The only two English words I knew were ‘apple’ and ‘hat’, which I pronounced more like ‘epple’ and ‘het’ due to the more dominant American influence in Taiwan. After I graduated from my Fine Art degree, I went to Taiwan to get reacquainted with...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
How to learn a language Badge icon
Languages

How to learn a language

...Mandarin, where you would have to get to grips with a different writing 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...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs