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Teaching Spanish pronunciation
Languages

Teaching Spanish pronunciation

...Las variedades de la lengua española y su enseñanza. Madrid: Arco/Libros. Ideas for exercises A great tool to get learners acquainted with the phonetic features of the major Spanish dialects is the Dialectoteca del español developed by Prof. Carlos-Eduardo Piñeros at the University of Iowa: http://dialects.its.uiowa.edu/ main.html Students at level B1 can familiarise...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Getting started with Italian 1
Languages

Getting started with Italian 1

...La pausa caffé Il bar is a very important part of Italian life. There are an estimated 121,000 in Italy, usually open from early morning until late evening. The bar is more like a café than an English bar, a place where one can drop in for un caffè during the working day (the so-called pausa caffè) and have a chat with friends and colleagues. Customers often share...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
History How-to videos: Decoding medals
History & The Arts

History How-to videos: Decoding medals

...War. And the bars on the medal? Well these relate to specific battles in Laings Nek and Belfast in South Africa. So he was a rifleman in the Boer War and he served with distinction during two campaigns. It was easy to find that out once we knew the regiment, and you can get that information even from a photograph, as long as it’s got a uniform or even a cap badge. Audio...
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Video 5 mins
Contemporary Issues in Finance
Money & Business

Contemporary Issues in Finance

...La Rue and ABN Amro offer insights into the various issues surrounding risk – what kinds of risk their companies are concerned with; how those risks are managed; their companies' differing attitudes to those risks. The album also explores developments in single currency, pension scheme deficits and corporate governance and explains what’s meant Forward Rate Agreement...
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Audio 1 hr 7 mins
How should we read Donald Trump's first Presidential speech?
Society, Politics & Law

How should we read Donald Trump's first Presidential speech?

...LA Times asked ahead of the ceremony whether the new president would rise to “a level of logic and eloquence that might bring the sceptical around to his view of the nation.” Based on Trump’s rhetorical track record, this was, the same paper admitted, a pipe dream. The “logic and eloquence” the LA Times hoped for are not what won Trump the presidency; nor are...
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The 2016 race enters the home straight
Society, Politics & Law

The 2016 race enters the home straight

...LA Times/USC poll. The LA Times/USC poll has always favoured Trump relative to other polls, even including the traditionally Republican-leaning Rasmussen. In fact, its tilt is so large compared to the average that it’s generally a good rule of thumb to add upwards of six points to its Clinton number to find the average of all the polls. There is, of course, no...
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Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer
Science, Maths & Technology

Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer

...la pionera de la programación que llevó el Apolo a la Luna. Verne Dec 10, 2014. Ref: https://verne.elpais.com/verne/2014/12/11/articulo/1418314336_993353.html Accessed 26 May 2019 Katz, Richard (2010) About Margaret Hamilton. NASA Office of Logic Design. Ref: http://klabs.org/home_page/hamilton.htm Accessed 27 May 2019. McMillan, Robert (2015). Her code got humans on...
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World-Changing Women: Marie-Louise Girardin
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Marie-Louise Girardin

...La Pérouse who had disappeared after leaving Botany Bay in 1788, it also had a scientific purpose. The expedition made a number of important geographical discoveries, amassed a significant collection of natural history specimens and made some of the earliest ethnographic observations of the Aboriginal people of Tasmania. The expedition also visited Tenerife, the Cape of...
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Article 5 mins