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Star Wars: La syntaxe du français avec Maître Yoda
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Star Wars: La syntaxe du français avec Maître Yoda

...English and Italian. In languages such as Czech where the word order is less prescribed, Yoda is switched back to the "Subject – Verb – ​Object" word order you would typically expect in normal French, which is actually stranger sounding to native Czech speakers! Will you be able to help Maître Yoda to correct his French syntax? Here is a little exercise for you to...
Year of the Tiger: Chinese New Year
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Year of the Tiger: Chinese New Year

...English poems and novels. Dr Frank Pearson (ex-OU student in Geoscience) presents his interpretation of William Blake's 'The Tyger' as a contradictory force, both creative and destructive, within the context of the French Revolution and our current situation. He explores Blake's ideas of art, poetry and perception traced in this poem and his wider writing and how they are...
Life-changing scholarships and bursaries at The Open University
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Life-changing scholarships and bursaries at The Open University

...English schoolteacher that I dreamt of being. For OU student Dawn*, being able to study through the Carers Scholarships Fund has given her and her family something to look forward to after years of challenges, as she explains: “I started university at 18 years old with dreams of becoming a teacher but left when my mum’s health deteriorated. Since April 2019, I have...
Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Italy
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Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Italy

...English Italy has many different kinds of bread, cakes and baked goods, which reflect the regional and cultural diversity of the 20 regions. Typical of Emilia Romagna is the piadina, a type of unleavened flatbread which goes back to ancient times and is cooked on a griddle or testo. Some Sicilian cakes go back to the period of Arab domination in Sicily, like cassata,...
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How to learn a language

...English, French and Italian. She is also currently learning German, and she has also already decided what three languages she’s going to learn next! You can find out more about her teaching and research on Tita’s OU Profile. [An image of Olly Richards] Olly Richards Olly Richards is a polyglot who speaks eight languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese,...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Psychology around the world
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Psychology around the world

...English language there is a distinction between ‘blue’ and ‘green’. However this distinction is not made in all of the world’s languages. Some languages do not distinguish between ‘blue’ and ‘green’ and instead have an umbrella term, covering both what English speakers would call green and what they would call blue – some researchers have referred to...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Supporting children’s learning in primary education today
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Supporting children’s learning in primary education today

...English-speaking parents. In addition, I also learned a small number of Spanish words and phrases, as my father was born and grew up in Chile and would occasionally use Spanish expressions at home. My mother is from an Irish and Scottish family, so I also learned many Irish and Scottish expressions and used these regularly. While we occasionally ate South American food...
Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance
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Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance

...English-speaking people refer to as ‘religion’ has no equivalent term in many other cultures and languages. Tisa Wenger (2022, p. 3), an American historian of religion, also argues that the word ‘religion’ is a product of specific European histories and has never been a comfortable fit for Indigenous knowledges and traditions. You might be wondering, then, what...