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Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink
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Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink

...está el kilo de tomates? —A uno setenta. —¿Y cuánto cuesta esta lechuga? —La lechuga noventa céntimos. Pero ¿compra o no compra? Fruit and vegetables Ejemplo [A vegetable stall] Figure 1 Answer plátanos – uno cincuenta el kilo (€1,50)limones – uno veinte el kilo (€1,20) patatas – setenta céntimos el kilo (€0,70) tomates – uno setenta el kilo (€1,70) lechuga – noventa céntimos (€0,90) Language: Asking for prices Here are ......
Intermediate French: Holiday plans
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Intermediate French: Holiday plans

...la Côte d'Amour - This section on summer holidays in France starts with a video sequence showing a typical beach scene from a French resort on the Atlantic coast. As well as finding out a little about the history of holiday-making in France, we hear present-day holiday-makers describing the advantages and disadvantages of a popular beach. A number of people then explain...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Teaching Languages for long-term memory
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Teaching Languages for long-term memory

...la boulangerie (I go to the bakery) Je vais au stade (I go to the stadium) When introducing a new place such as ‘à la piscine’ (to the swimming pool), we teach it in the familiar sentence: ‘je vais à la piscine’ (I go to the swimming pool) to reduce the load on their working memory and allow them to concentrate on the new part ‘à la piscine’. This is quite...
Beginners’ French: food and drink
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Beginners’ French: food and drink

...la glace cheese le fromage red meat la viande rouge pineapple l’ananas sea food les fruits de mer white wine le vin blanc fish le poisson raw vegetables les crudités Two lists follow, match one item from the first with one item from the second. Each item can only be matched once. There are 9 items in each list. vegetables ice cream cheese red meat pineapple sea food...
How Spanish sounded across its history
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How Spanish sounded across its history

...la Historia] Glosa emilianense, Codice 60, folio 72r, manuscript kept at the Real Academia de la Historia. Transcript Libro de buen amor Listen to a passage from El libro de buen amor (The Book of Good Love), written in 1330 by Juan Ruiz, Arcipreste de Hita (c. 1283–c. 1350), considered one of the masterpieces of Spanish poetry. It is a pseudo-autobiographical account...
Can cartoons help keep indigenous Mexican languages alive?
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Can cartoons help keep indigenous Mexican languages alive?

...Las lenguas indígenas engloban una visión única de la vida y del mundo. Al desaparecer, se pierde la cosmovisión y cosmogonía única de cada pueblo, perdiéndose una parte importante de la humanidad. The indigenous languages encompass a unique vision of life and of the world. Their disappearance would imply a loss of the unique world view and existence of each...
Intermediate French: Understanding spoken French
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Intermediate French: Understanding spoken French

...la région Centre. J’ai 37 ans, je suis infirmière dans un service de cardiologie, dans une clinique. J’ai deux enfants, deux garçons, un mari que j’aime, et je suis chanteuse. Mon père et ma mère sont nés en Guadeloupe. La Guadeloupe, c’est une petite île qui se trouve près de l’Amérique latine, qui est à 8000 km de la France mais qui appartient à la...
Explore the baking and culture of Europe: France
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Explore the baking and culture of Europe: France

...la plupart des familles françaises, on achète son pain tous 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...