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English Pronunciation in the Global Context 2016
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Michael Ashby , 2016
Pre-sessional Lecture 28th June 2016
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- 50
Pre-sessional Lecture 28th June 2016
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Memory and Language Learning
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Andrew Dobbie , 2012
Diploma Lecture 2012 - 2013
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- Humanities
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- 50
Diploma Lecture 2012 - 2013
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Memory, Learning and Language Learning
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Andrew Dobbie , 2018
Pre-Sessional Lecture 01.05.2018
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- 55
Pre-Sessional Lecture 01.05.2018
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Sounds Familiar? British English Accents and Dialects at the British Library
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Dr Jonnie Robinson , 2012
Diploma Lecture 2012
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- Art & Design
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- 57
Diploma Lecture 2012
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Swearing in a Foreign Language: The Multicultural Dimension of Rudeness (with transcript)
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Marco Federighi , 2008
GPC/Pre-sessional Lecture 2008
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- Art & Design
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- 51
GPC/Pre-sessional Lecture 2008
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The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis: The State-of-the-Art
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Professor Gabriella Vigliocco , 2014
Diploma 2014
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- 63
Diploma 2014
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Who's Afraid of Multilingualism?
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Raphaela Armbruster , 2007
UPCH 2007
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- Lectures
- Politics & Public Policy
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UPCH 2007
Whether it’s English, Spanish, Chinese, or Urdu, babies and young children are able to pick up their native language with remarkable ease; no one language seems any more difficult than any other. Yet few children who are taught a language in school have anything to show for it when they grow up. Why is learning a second or third language so difficult?
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- Humanities
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Whether it’s English, Spanish, Chinese, or Urdu, babies and young children are able to pick up their native language with remarkable ease; no one language seems any more difficult than any other. Yet few children who are taught a language in school have anything to show for it when they grow up. Why is learning a second or third language so difficult?
Talking is something that is unique to humans, yet it still remains a mystery. Horizon meets the scientists beginning to unlock the secrets of speech - including a father who is filming every second of his son\'s first three years in order to discover how we learn to talk, the autistic savant who can speak more than 20 languages, and the first scientist to identify a gene that makes speech possible.
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- Humanities
- Medical Sciences
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Talking is something that is unique to humans, yet it still remains a mystery. Horizon meets the scientists beginning to unlock the secrets of speech - including a father who is filming every second of his son\'s first three years in order to discover how we learn to talk, the autistic savant who can speak more than 20 languages, and the first scientist to identify a gene that makes speech possible.
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How To Be A World Music Star
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Ellen Hobson
Documentary telling the story of the British world music revolution from the early 1980s to the present. Through a variety of careers, starting with Zimbabwe's Bhundu Boys and culminating with Portugal's Mariza in the new millennium, the film explores what it takes to bring music from 'out there' over here.
- TV-Recordings
- Music
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Documentary telling the story of the British world music revolution from the early 1980s to the present. Through a variety of careers, starting with Zimbabwe's Bhundu Boys and culminating with Portugal's Mariza in the new millennium, the film explores what it takes to bring music from 'out there' over here.
Alan Yentob presents the first of a two-part series for Imagine on the art of stand-up comedy. He talks to comedians in Britain and America, exploring their backgrounds and influences and their passion for making people laugh.
- TV-Recordings
- Art & Design
- TV-Recordings
- No subtitles
- 70
Alan Yentob presents the first of a two-part series for Imagine on the art of stand-up comedy. He talks to comedians in Britain and America, exploring their backgrounds and influences and their passion for making people laugh.
The second of a two-part series for Imagine on the art of stand-up comedy. Alan Yentob talks to comedians in Britain and America, exploring the evolution of stand-up and how it transfers to other mediums.
- TV-Recordings
- Art & Design
- TV-Recordings
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The second of a two-part series for Imagine on the art of stand-up comedy. Alan Yentob talks to comedians in Britain and America, exploring the evolution of stand-up and how it transfers to other mediums.
Frank Skinner is one of Britain's most controversial comedians but even he felt the comments broadcast last year by Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand on BBC Radio went too far. As he experiments with reducing the expletive count in his own stand-up show, Frank sets out to discover if the Ross-Brand storm really was a watershed in broadcasting's debate about bad language and offence.
- TV-Recordings
- Humanities
- TV-Recordings
- No subtitles
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Frank Skinner is one of Britain's most controversial comedians but even he felt the comments broadcast last year by Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand on BBC Radio went too far. As he experiments with reducing the expletive count in his own stand-up show, Frank sets out to discover if the Ross-Brand storm really was a watershed in broadcasting's debate about bad language and offence.