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Five ways you can tell if your child is ‘normal’
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five ways you can tell if your child is ‘normal’

...write down your concerns, and take these with you into the consultation, that way you can be sure to get your key points across when discussing things. As a general rule, it is better to seek help even if things aren’t that serious, than to wait and have things get a lot worse. 3: Mental health matters [Werry Centre Logo] As a lecturer and researcher with an interest in...
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Double trouble: my experience of studying part-time as a mixed-race individual
Education & Development

Double trouble: my experience of studying part-time as a mixed-race individual

...write] This brings us to May 2022 where Covid is still around but ceremonies have been back and my oh my, do the families of graduates know how to celebrate! I graduated in a beautiful cathedral and will forever have the memory of the stained-glass windows, the lanterns and the joy all around that you can’t help but absorb even when your minute of high-stakes walking is...
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Impossible Peace 2: Tea for two
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Tea for two

...writing before sharing it with Downing Street. Hours later, the solicitor Kevin Winters called me with the news that Kelly was out; that he had been granted temporary release pending an application to the Sentence Review Commission to have his licence restored. It was the signal that the IRA statement was now imminent. That happened the next day - July 28th 2005, but not...
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What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?
Languages

What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?

...write, to acquire the academic and textual conventions of a language and also to extend grammatical structures, expand vocabulary and refine pragmatic conventions. First language acquisition may take more time than you thought but its outcomes are relatively uniform (under the condition that schooling is universal in a population). Putting a number on how long it takes to...
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Finding your way after the death of a significant person
Health, Sports & Psychology

Finding your way after the death of a significant person

...writing a participatory research proposal on bereavement for my final assessment in 2023. I experienced a significant bereavement in my early school years, after my mum died of a rare form of cancer in 1999. Since then, I have gone through a series of life events that have brought up feelings of the loss of my mother in a range of ways. I have spent years reflecting on my...
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Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...Writing perhaps eight hundred years before the birth of Christ, the Greek bard Homer tells of how: Huge god Hephaestus got up from the anvil block with laboured breathing. At once he was helped along by female servants made of gold, who moved to him. They look like living servant girls, possessing minds, hearts with intelligence, vocal chords, and strength. They learned...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Getting started with Chinese 1
Languages

Getting started with Chinese 1

...writing, speaking and listening in Chinese through a variety of online activities. A perfect introduction for absolute beginners! This OpenLearn course is an extract from the beginning of the Open Centre for Languages and Cultures short course, LGXC001 Beginners Chinese 1. After completing this free course, you may wish to register for the full course to continue your...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Getting started with German 1
Languages

Getting started with German 1

...Write down your answers. You can write on paper or electronically. Then read out your answers and compare them with the model answers below. Beispiel: Das ist Sigmund Freud. Er kommt aus Österreich. Answer Table 3 Introducing famous people Bild 1 Das ist Sigmund Freud. Er kommt aus Österreich. Bild 2 Das ist Angela Merkel. Sie kommt aus Deutschland. Bild 3 Das ist Roger...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs