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World-Changing Women: Murasaki Shikibu
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Murasaki Shikibu

...English translator, contains some remarkable writing. It is considered to be the world's first psychological novel and one of the most distinguished masterpieces of Japanese literature. Aside from the novel, Murasaki Shikibu left a collection of her poetry and a fragmentary diary. She last appears in a record dating from 1013, and her date of death is unknown. Find out...
Art and architecture
History & The Arts

Art and architecture

...English Philistines, French Sophisticates How a British King's art collection became a French King's art collection. Subversive classicism How French sculptor, Puget, nearly lost his head with his representation of Louis XIV. Open museum Pierre Rosenberg, Director of the Louvre, on the original idea that the museum must reflect art history and be open to everyone. Ruined...
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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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...