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Getting started with Chinese 2
Languages

Getting started with Chinese 2

...writing, speaking and listening through a variety of online activities. A perfect online short course to develop further the skills needed to speak and understand simple Mandarin Chinese in everyday contexts! This OpenLearn course is an extract from the Open Centre for Languages and Cultures short course, LGXC002 Beginners Chinese 2: 开始吧 kāishĭ ba! After completing...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Using digital tools to save languages
Languages

Using digital tools to save languages

...writing systems, and their work allows us today to discover many fascinating stories from those cultures. While it is interesting and advantageous to know more than one language, our native language is particularly important, as it is the tool in which we most easily encode and decode our emotions, our stories, and our secrets. If we don’t start documenting languages...
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Video 5 mins
Digital Film School
Science, Maths & Technology

Digital Film School

...creative and try something new. Make your video look interesting Rick Goldsmith explains some of the creative techniques to help you produce the best from your location. Post-production pep-talk John Sinton discusses how editing is where all your hard work comes together, it’s the time where your individual creativity shines. Archive your project Joe Mills explains the...
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Video 1 hr 13 mins
Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Austria
Languages

Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Austria

...Creative Commons license Das Mohnweckerl Mohnweckerl is a small, soft white roll topped with poppy seeds. Image: © Beverley Daley-Yates Die Semmel Semmel or kaisersemmel are typical soft white bread rolls with five-leaved star-shapes on top, found on dining tables across Austria at breakfast, lunch and dinner. Image: © Beverley Daley-Yates Der Apfelstrudel One of the...
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Activity 5 mins
Getting started with Italian 1
Languages

Getting started with Italian 1

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below and within the course is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Images Course image: Image by 272447 from Pixabay...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
An introduction to design engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to design engineering

...creatively – to be able to imagine ‘what if …?’ and come up with something that didn’t exist before. Some of the greatest human achievements have come from creative design engineering, allowing the realisation of some truly remarkable change in our world. Design engineering has helped to transform the environment, create incredible super-structures on land and...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
The Writer's Room: J.K. Rowling
History & The Arts

The Writer's Room: J.K. Rowling

...writing 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' in a room at the Balmoral Hotel, Edinburgh. What drives literary tourists to visit the room where she penned the final chapter?...In 2007 a travel journalist, Laura Knight, reviewed the Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh for The Times: The windows of room 652 give me a whiff of Hogwarts school for wizards. Two tiny apertures high up...
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Article 10 mins
Plastic planet
Nature & Environment

Plastic planet

...creativity, as we embraced the magic of this versatile product. But it was at a cost - has the material which made the 21st Century brought about an environmental catastrophe?...[Bird with plastic waste] Plastic peril The scale of the problem we're facing. Plastics Watch on the BBC Turning the tide Different approaches, different futures. Why plastic? Why has the world...
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Article 5 mins