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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
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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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Discover OpenLearn on Spotify
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Discover OpenLearn on Spotify

...English language! We want all of our content to be a place for engagement with our learners, so please leave comments and if there’s something you want to know on a topic that’s not covered in the podcast, then ask away! And if there’s a subject, a course or a topic on OpenLearn you think would make a good podcast episode, then let us know. So head on over to...
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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
Using art and creative methods to interrogate identity, citizenship and migration
Society, Politics & Law

Using art and creative methods to interrogate identity, citizenship and migration

...particularly if you are interested in thinking about what participation means today, what national, supra-national and local identities mean, and how research is relevant for our everyday lives. This connects to many of the current and future modules in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, but will be of interest to those of you with other study interests as well....
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Article 5 mins
Hanukkah: a festival of light
History & The Arts

Hanukkah: a festival of light

...everyday and ceremonial life were banned. A resistance movement succeeded and set about restoring local life, albeit with at least tacit recognition that the new superpower would continue to dominate the region. During the conflict Jerusalem’s temple had been desecrated. So here’s why light and oil are central to Hanukkah: in restoring the temple to its religious...
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Article 5 mins
Think like a scientist
Science, Maths & Technology

Think like a scientist

...Everyday food stuffs such as potatoes and apples contain water, but have you ever wondered how much? The answer may surprise you. Cucumber experiment: How to measure osmosis in a cucumber By recording what happens when you drop cucumber into salty water you'll learn about an important process called osmosis. Ice tray experiment: changing states of matter How the physical...
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Windrush generation latest to be stripped of their rights in the name of 'migration control'
Society, Politics & Law

Windrush generation latest to be stripped of their rights in the name of 'migration control'

...everyday life, including from the rule of law. This is a displacement driven by policy, not migration. And it is a worrying trend. [Notting Hill Carnival 2014] Notting Hill Carnival has taken place in London since 1966 and is a multi-cultural celebration Gradually removing rights While this process was certainly in motion long before, the 1971 Immigration Act marked an...
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