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Exploring the English language
History & The Arts

Exploring the English language

...Alphabetical of Hard Usual English Words. It provides some early illustrations describing use of the English language. As this interest in describing (and prescribing) use of the English language developed, so did lexicography, the craft of making dictionaries. In Activity 9 you will look at an extract from Blackadder III which makes fun of the part of a lexicographer's...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Data and processes in computing
Digital & Computing

Data and processes in computing

...alphabets (such as ê and ö). For simplicity, examples in this course will use only a part of this code, as given in Table 2. This is confined to printable symbols that appear on a standard computer keyboard (for an English-speaking user). We will denote by Char the set of characters appearing in Table 2. We will call the codes in the table the ASCII codes of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Exploring ancient Greek religion
History & The Arts

Exploring ancient Greek religion

...alphabet. In this course, ‘Hellenised’ spellings are generally used, for example, ‘k’ rather than ‘c’, ‘ai’ rather than ‘ae’, and ‘os’ rather than ‘us’ at the end of names: Asklepios, Aphaia, Herodotos. These ‘Hellenised’ spellings closely reflect the way these names were spelt in ancient Greek. Elsewhere, you will often find modern authors...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Getting started with Chinese 1
Languages

Getting started with Chinese 1

...alphabet. Pinyin (e.g. nǐ hăo for ‘hello’) was adopted as the official system in the People’s Republic of China in 1958 and has since become the standard and most-used form of transcription. This course uses Pinyin in the teaching of pronunciation. Tones Chinese is a tonal language. In Mandarin Chinese, there are four tones (five if you include the neutral tone)....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Getting started with German 1
Languages

Getting started with German 1

...alphabet as English and generally you pronounce the words phonetically, so pronouncing every letter of the word as you read along. However, there a few letters that look and sound different: ä, ö and ü (with two dots, called Umlaut in German), for example in München or Köln. Those vowels with Umlaut sound different to a, o, and u. You might have noticed this when...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Why study languages?
Languages

Why study languages?

...alphabetically in national order.’ ‘For your convenience, we recommend courteous, efficient self-service.’ ‘It is forbidden to enter a woman even a foreigner if dressed as a man.’ ‘Specialist in women and other diseases.’ ‘Order your summers suit. Because is big rush we will execute customers in strict rotation.’ ‘Ladies may have a fit upstairs.’...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace
Education & Development

An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace

...alphabet, for example, consists of a set of arbitrary symbols – its 26 letters – that represent sounds. Not all languages have alphabets that help learners understand how to pronounce single letters and words, however. Japanese, for instance, has three different alphabets: letters only represent sounds in two of them, and in a third, which is based on the Chinese...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
English in the world today
Languages

English in the world today

...alphabet we use for modern-day English. Now let’s look at another passage from approximately four hundred years later. This is in what’s known as Middle English, and was written around the late fourteenth century. How much of this passage can you read? But the serpent was feller than alle lyuynge beestis of erthe which the Lord God hadde maad. Which serpent seide to...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs