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Heritage case studies: Scotland
History & The Arts

Heritage case studies: Scotland

...English – equals that of either Bannockburn or Culloden, yet Bothwell Bridge does not figure as strongly on the landscape of memory, and it is heavily encroached by suburban development (Sunday Herald, 26 November 2006). Furthermore, although both Bannockburn and Culloden are under the aegis of the National Trust for Scotland, each is remembered in quite a different...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Getting started with Italian 1
Languages

Getting started with Italian 1

...everyday contexts! This OpenLearn course is an extract from the beginning of the Open Centre for Languages and Cultures short course, LGXI001 Beginners Italian 1: primi passi. After completing this free course, you may wish to register for the full course to continue your learning!...Introduction: Introduction - [Described image] Figure 1 Are you fascinated by the Italian...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Why is Donald Trump a challenge for translators?
Languages

Why is Donald Trump a challenge for translators?

...English language. Have sympathy, pleads Severine Hubscher-Davidson, for those trying to translate him...[Donald Trump on a visit to Saudi Arabia] Donald Trump on his first trip outside the United States as President Much has already been written on the difficulty that translators and interpreters have when translating Donald Trump’s speeches and messages into other...
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Article 5 mins
Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Austria
Languages

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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Activity 5 mins
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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Video 5 mins
From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...English which is ‘Add an s’, this is actually a hypothesis that somewhere in the brain of English speakers there is a neural network which carries out this procedure. So a grammar is really a set of hypotheses about the brain. Grammars have several parts. Phonology is the set of rules about how sounds can and cannot be put together in a language. For example, brick is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
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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Activity 10 mins
Making sense of ourselves
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of ourselves

...everyday questions, such as Why don’t we like one another? Why would I hang around with you? Do you see what I see? What’s the point of childhood? You’ll learn how psychologists can go about addressing these questions using different research tools and approaches...This free course, Making sense of ourselves, introduces you to well-known psychological topics by...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs