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15 facts about number 15
Education & Development

15 facts about number 15

...English skills or perhaps remember areas you may have forgotten in our free course, Everyday English. 10: Our 15th most visited interactive on OpenLearn this year was… No sex please, we're British! There have been major changes in sexual attitudes over the years, but what are the views of the ‘average’ British person in terms of sex? This sexual attitudes...
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Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Austria
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Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Austria

...English In Austria, there are local and regional variations in baking. Home baking is quite popular. Sweet baking in Austria was influenced by other cultures: Bohemia golatschen, Hungary strudel and Italy polentaschnitten. Different words are used to refer to bread brot, white bread and rolls weißgebäck and konditorwaren are more luxurious bakery goods. The sachertorte...
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Left behind?
Society, Politics & Law

Left behind?

...English comes from the Anglo-Saxon word lyft, which means weak or broken. The Oxford English Dictionary defines left-handed to mean crippled, defective, awkward, clumsy, inept, characterised by underhanded dealings, ambiguous, doubtful, questionable, ill-omened, inauspicious, and illegitimate. In Latin the word meaning 'left' is sinister. There is a useful website which...
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Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture
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Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture

...English throughout the course. You can also access a range of further free resources to support Ukrainians settling in the UK and Ireland, which is also now available as a Ukrainian language version....Week 1: Greetings: Introduction - Welcome to the first week of your Ukrainian course Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture. This week you’ll learn to greet...
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Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs
Protest Banners: Women's Suffrage
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Women's Suffrage

...English & Creative Writing at the OU, and Chair of Y031, the Arts and Languages Access module. I’m researching the work of suffragette medics at the moment, so it’s a real pleasure to be able to focus my thoughts on a suffrage banner today as I talk about popular protest in history. When I hear the word ‘suffragette’, or come across it in print somewhere, I see...
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Embodied Intersectionality and British South Asian Muslim Women
Society, Politics & Law

Embodied Intersectionality and British South Asian Muslim Women

...English, of a particular ethnicity or culture; these stereotypes can become attached to certain bodies, so in turn these bodies both embody and become the embodiment of these differences. In short, as my research discusses, the niqab has become the embodiment of Muslim women’s and by extension Muslim communities ‘otherness’. This can have an impact on the everyday...
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Start your career with OpenLearn
Education & Development

Start your career with OpenLearn

...English rescources. Boost your digital skills The ability to use information and communication technologies is becoming increasingly important to employers. Learn how to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information with these free courses. Go after your dream job Do you want to work in healthcare? Maybe construction is more up your street? Perhaps you'd like to...
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Discover OpenLearn on Spotify
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Discover OpenLearn on Spotify

...English language! We want all of our content to be a place for engagement with our learners, so please leave comments and if there’s something you want to know on a topic that’s not covered in the podcast, then ask away! And if there’s a subject, a course or a topic on OpenLearn you think would make a good podcast episode, then let us know. So head on over to...
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