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The history of Spanish in about six minutes
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The history of Spanish in about six minutes

...Sara Gómez Seibane, Esteban T. Montoro del Arco, David Rodríguez Gómez, Santiago Sánchez Moreano and Maricela Taylor. Resources Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española: https://www.asale.org/ Biblioteca Digital Hispánica: http://www.bne.es/en/Catalogos/BibliotecaDigitalHispanica/Inicio/ Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes: http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/...
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Getting started with Italian 3
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Getting started with Italian 3

...la seconda classe e costano poco ma viaggiano lentamente, a circa 100 km orari. Però c’è anche un regionale veloce, economico ma meno frequente. Su molti treni si può portare la bicicletta pagando il supplemento bici. I treni nazionali (Intercity e Frecciabianca) collegano città grandi e medie su tutto il territorio nazionale, hanno prima e seconda classe e...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Language of Poverty
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Language of Poverty

...class, or the squeezed middle, to use the current terminology, but it is a very de-economised middle class, isn’t it? It is not seen as rooted in any economic framework. Prior to this, we can talk about the under class. Now, the under class was a de-classed class, it was a class beyond what was seen to......
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Teaching Spanish pronunciation
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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
Are things changing in world rugby?
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Are things changing in world rugby?

...la même chose? Kath Woodward discusses the social side of sport...The 2015 Men’s Rugby World Cup has been an exciting competition so far, although emotions range from unexpected jubilation to deep despair, depending which team you support, or even more significantly where your financial investments lie. This was billed as the biggest World Cup ever with massive global...
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May the Forza be with you: Star Wars in other languages
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May the Forza be with you: Star Wars in other languages

...La guerre des étoiles in French, Krieg der Sterne in German, for example), the Italian translation refers to the wars (in plural) of the stars (Guerre stellari) and the Spanish translation to the war of the galaxies (La guerra de las galaxias). This only applies to the original trilogy, however, the subsequent prequels were named Star Wars (in English), followed by......
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It's a run-off: Argentina's presidential election goes to a second round
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It's a run-off: Argentina's presidential election goes to a second round

...de Kirchner at a fever pitch, Argentina is suddenly facing its first ever presidential runoff. Against all predictions, the provisional results from the first round show the ruling Victory Front (VF) candidate Daniel Scioli with a tight lead of 36.78%, followed by the Cambiemos (Let’s Change) coalition with 34.40%. Former Kirchner ally Sergio Massa of A New Alternative...
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En rumbo: intermediate Spanish
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En rumbo: intermediate Spanish

...de En Rumbo, el curso de español de nivel intermedio de la Open University. Personal information part 1 We’re going to listen to street interviews with eight people from different parts of the world giving basic personal information. Personal information part 2 Here are three examples of people introducing themselves and giving basic personal information. What are...
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