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Intermediate Spanish: A trip across Latin America
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Intermediate Spanish: A trip across Latin America

...le reconoce al medio natural el derecho a la restauración: "el Estado aplicará medidas de precaución y restricción para las actividades que puedan conducir a la extinción de especies, la destrucción de ecosistemas o la alteración permanente de los ciclos naturales". Y agrega que "se prohíbe la introducción de organismos y material orgánico e inorgánico que...
Advanced Spanish: Protest song
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Advanced Spanish: Protest song

...told a lie” no puede traducirse por “Ella fue contada una mentira”, sino por: “Le contaron una mentira” o “Se le contó una mentira”. La pasiva con “se” Esta construcción es más común en el lenguaje hablado e informal. Se vende esta casa. Se discutieron varias ideas. No se puede usar “por” + el agente del verbo, como en inglés (‘several ideas were discussed by the workers’). Para expresar el agente, se debe ......
Rio 2016: South East Asia on the podium
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: South East Asia on the podium

...le Clos of South Africa in the 100m butterfly event at Rio 2016. Aside from Schooling, three other athletes from Southeast Asia have won a gold medal in Rio as of this writing. They were Thai weightlifters Sukanya Srisurat and Sopita Tanasan, and Vietnamese shooter Hoang Xuan Vinh. Schooling’s victory was special because it gave Singapore its first ever Olympic gold...
How do you become French President?
Society, Politics & Law

How do you become French President?

...Le Pen National Front FN 6,421,426 17.90% Jean-Luc Mélenchon Left Front FG 3,984,822 11.10% François Bayrou Democratic Movement MoDem 3,275,122 9.13% Eva Joly Europe Ecology – The Greens EELV 828,345 2.31% Nicolas Dupont-Aignan Republic Arise DLR 643,907 1.79% Philippe Poutou New Anticapitalist Party NPA 411,160 1.15% Nathalie Arthaud Workers' Struggle LO 202,548...
Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins
Society, Politics & Law

Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins

...Le Parrocchie di Regalpetra (published in the English edition as Salt in the Wound) was based on his experience as a schoolteacher in his hometown. His descriptions of poverty, fascism, and corruption in the Church and town hall were based on real events and became dominant themes in his later writing. Education informed their respective interrogations of wider cultures....
CIAM (Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne)
History & The Arts

CIAM (Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne)

...Le Corbusier, one of the movement's founders, often liked to compare the standardised efficiency of the motor industry with the inefficiency of the building trade.) CIAM's early attitudes towards town-planning were stark: "Urbanisation cannot be conditioned by the claims of a pre-existent aestheticism; its essence is of a functional order… the chaotic division of land,...
Getting started with Chinese 1
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Getting started with Chinese 1

...le ma?) was actually one of the common greetings amongst neighbours. An appropriate response is to say ‘Chī le’ for ‘Yes’ or ‘Méi chī’ for ‘No’. Zăo ān (lit. morning peace), a common greeting in the morning in Taiwan. When parting from people, you say: Zàijiàn (lit. again see) Goodbye Note that although there are expressions in Chinese for ‘good...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945

...levels | Books | The Guardian Good e-Reader (2022) Book sales in the United Kingdom are booming - Good e-Reader (goodereader.com) BePolar (2019) Les chiffres et le palmarès des ventes du genre Polar dévoilés par l'Observatoire de la librairie (bepolar.fr) Acknowledgements Image of Andrea Camilleri Image of Georges Simenon Image of Hercule Poirot Image of Maj Sjöwall...