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Intermediate French: Understanding spoken French
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Intermediate French: Understanding spoken French

...et je suis chanteuse. Mon père et ma mère sont nés en Guadeloupe. La Guadeloupe, c’est une petite île qui se trouve près de l’Amérique latine, qui est à 8000 km de la France mais qui appartient à la France. C’est une île qui est très joviale, où il fait bon y vivre, enfin où il fait bon y passer les vacances. J’ai commencé par faire des études de...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Intermediate French: Holiday plans
Languages

Intermediate French: Holiday plans

...et leurs enfants découvrent ses plages, car cette année-là, pour la première fois en France, les salariés ont droit aux congés payés. Les Français ont maintenant au moins cinq semaines de vacances. Le soleil des mois d'été, le beau sable et la mer attirent toujours des centaines de vacanciers sur cette plage de la côte atlantique. Les enfants jouent sur la...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Ever Wondered About... Pizza?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ever Wondered About... Pizza?

...circulate. A higher-tech solution is a breathable bag to stop the pizza getting sweaty, combined with a heated disk to keep the pizza hot. When storing your hard cheese in the fridge, it’s worth wrapping it up to help keep flavour. More cheese is spoiled by drying out in cold, airless fridges than by mould. Use waxed paper, or wrap it in foil that you’ve pierced in...
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The Amygdala Hijack: Stress Response in Aviation
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Amygdala Hijack: Stress Response in Aviation

...et al., 2014). Responses to surprise can cause performance decrements (e.g., action delays, increased error rate, deterioration of conscious perception and memory) as well as an attentional shift interrupting the ongoing processes of a parallel task (Horstmann, 2005; Reisenzein et al., 2006; Reisenzein & Studtmann, 2007; Asplund et al., 2010). In this sense, the...
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When did the largest ocean current on Earth start?
Nature & Environment

When did the largest ocean current on Earth start?

...circulation? PhD student, Sophie Alexander, explains...The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is the largest ocean current on Earth. It flows clockwise around Antarctica, linking the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. The ACC is important to Earth’s climate. Firstly, the ACC isolates Antarctica from warmer waters to the north of the current. The ACC is also important...
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What is testosterone?
Nature & Environment

What is testosterone?

...circulation and affect a wide range of organs. Testosterone is made in males in Leydig cells in the testes. There’s also a small amount made in the ovaries in females, and in both sexes is made in the adrenal glands which sit on top of the kidneys. Now, the release of testosterone is controlled by a group of structures called the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, and...
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A brief history of Science
History & The Arts

A brief history of Science

...circulated round the human body. This slow progress was sometimes the result of religious dogma, but it was also a product of troubled times! THE BIRTH OF MODERN SCIENCE It was in the 17th century that modern science was really born, and the world began to be examined more closely, using instruments such as the telescope, microscope, clock and barometer. It was also at...
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60 second adventures in economics: Rational Choice Theory
Society, Politics & Law

60 second adventures in economics: Rational Choice Theory

...double dip’. And governments often decide their economic policies assuming such rational actions. Which would be great, if it weren’t for the fact that those pesky humans don’t always do what’s best for them. Sometimes they mistakenly think they know all the facts, or maybe the facts are just too complicated And sometimes people just decide to follow the crowd,...
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