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Beginners’ Tamil: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Tamil: a taster course

...phrases that will allow you to start having simple conversations in the language. You will also have plenty of opportunities to practise Tamil throughout the course with activities and quizzes...Beginners’ Tamil: a taster course: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate an awareness of the Tamil alphabet and sound, and a basic...
How to write a CV
Education & Development

How to write a CV

...type of CV How you present your skills, achievements and ambitions in a CV (curriculum vitae) are key so it’s important to choose the right format for the job you're applying for and your circumstances. There are 2 main types of CV: A chronological (or traditional) CV, and A skills-based (or functional) CV. Other types of CV include: First job - non graduate CV. First...
Year of the Pig: Chinese New Year
Languages

Year of the Pig: Chinese New Year

...kind and are providers; most are wealthy. Their main fault is that they lose their temper easily. Chinese New Year officially begins on February 5th, 2019, and ends on February 19th with the Lantern Festival. Celebrate the new year by dipping into some of our fantastic resources on China and Chinese. Want to learn some Chinese words and phrases? Explore Chinese culture...
Referendum Rhetoric: keeping a-hold of nurse or leaping into the dark?
Society, Politics & Law

Referendum Rhetoric: keeping a-hold of nurse or leaping into the dark?

...phrase’. Well, yes, Churchill did write about this in the News of the World in 1938 and he is credited with coining the expression but only by people like Boris Johnson who do not know, for instance, that the Cambridge historian Professor (later Sir) John Seeley gave a lecture in London to the Peace Society in 1871, and published in Macmillan’s Magazine, entitled...
Year of the Rat: Chinese New Year
Languages

Year of the Rat: Chinese New Year

...of their reproduction rate, married couples also prayed to them for children. The Chinese New Year of 2020 falls on January 25th (Saturday), and the festival will last to February 8th, about 15 days in total. Celebrate the new year by dipping into some of our fantastic resources on China and Chinese. Want to learn some Chinese words and phrases? Explore Chinese culture...
Year of the Ox: Chinese New Year
Languages

Year of the Ox: Chinese New Year

...phrase above and the first character 扭 niǔ (to turn; to twist) in the well-known four-character proverb below are pronounced niu (although with different tones): 扭转乾坤 niǔ zhuǎn qián kūn Turning things around Below are a few often used words/expressions containing the word 牛 niǔ : 牛肉 niúròu beef (lit. cattle meat) 牛奶 niúnǎi milk (lit. cow milk)...
The history of Blaenau Gwent
History & The Arts

The history of Blaenau Gwent

...phrases used by attendees at those sessions. In this way it represents the elements of Blaenau Gwent’s history that are important to the people who live there. The early sections of the timeline cover two thousand years of history in just five slides, from local legends about the mythical Bran the Blessed through invasions by Romans and Normans to the 800 year old...
Business Bursts: Branding
Health, Sports & Psychology

Business Bursts: Branding

...phrases or images we associate with a product, and which gives the company or organisation an advantage over its competitors, because it doesn’t need to communicate anything more than at brand values, or its image it’s presenting. Dr Terry O’Sullivan, Senior Lecturer in Management A product if you like is, if you could imagine such a thing, is just a sort of a basic...