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How to learn a language

...writing. You will also find out how to learn vocabulary, and how to evaluate language learning resources. Finally, you will also learn how to create a ‘virtual language immersion’ for yourself. The course lasts 8 weeks, with approximately 3 hours of study time each week. You can work through the course at your own pace, so if you have more time one week there is no...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The future of emojis
Languages

The future of emojis

...writing. They’re digital writing, but with antecedents in handwriting and print. In other words, they may be a relatively ‘new’ system of communication, but they haven’t come out of nowhere. It seems likely, therefore, that as long as writing remains important for human communication, something akin to emojis will remain. So far, of course, they’ve mostly been...
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Article 5 mins
Building peace through teaching Remembrance Sunday
Education & Development

Building peace through teaching Remembrance Sunday

...writing in Sadako’s diary. The Peace Education network also offers a free Teach Peace resource that includes an assembly plan about Sadako. There are a number of Remembrance activities that schools might consider that will help children to develop their competencies for peace. They might develop their empathy by writing letters of condolence to the families of those...
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Article 5 mins
From boom to bust: the AI winter
Digital & Computing

From boom to bust: the AI winter

...write, reproduce itself and be conscious of its existence. Later perceptrons will be able to recognize people and call out their names and instantly translated speech in one language to speech and writing in another language, it was predicted. [The Mark 1 Perceptron, an artificial intelligence machine, being adjusted by Charles Wightman]The Mark 1 Perceptron, being...
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Article 5 mins
Opening up history: religion and politics in the Elizabethan era
History & The Arts

Opening up history: religion and politics in the Elizabethan era

...writing it all up. 9. Tell us about the sources that you used, and the challenges that came about using them. One important reason why Hatton had been neglected by historians is that he’s very poorly documented; historians are always dependent on their sources. Hatton’s papers were lost or destroyed, so historians have not paid much attention to him. This is why I...
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Article 5 mins
Water for life
Nature & Environment

Water for life

...write down the proportion as a fraction. If the numbers involved are too large to enter on your calculator, you will need to reduce the fraction to an equivalent fraction with smaller numbers on the top and the bottom by cancelling out some zeros. Then use your calculator to work out the required percentage.) Answer From Table 1, the volume of water stored in ice and snow...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic
OpenLearn Ireland

Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic

...writing?...[Stained glass windows by Harry Clarke.]Stained glass windows by Harry Clarke. Source: Wikimedia Commons When you think of the Gothic you might think of vampires, ruined castles, graveyards, spectres and haunted heroines. You probably do not automatically think of Ireland, but in fact, the Gothic—a cultural form that includes novels, films, art and even...
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Article 45 mins
A reader's guide to The Luzhin Defence
Health, Sports & Psychology

A reader's guide to The Luzhin Defence

...writing, his best known novel being the controversial Lolita (1955). From 1959 he resided in Switzerland, where he died in 1977. Nabokov was talented at chess, and this interest inspired The Defence (1930) - originally written in Russian. Its protagonist is Alexander Luzhin, a chess player who competes for the world title. He falls in love, but becomes disturbed by the...
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Article 5 mins