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Enhance your Writing with Adjective Clauses
Do you have a hard time describing things, people, and places in English? This course will show you how to be more descriptive in your writing by incorporating adjective clauses in complex sentences. You will begin each course learning some basic information about adjective clauses. Then, we’ll get into the specifics of how to identify and use adjective clauses and the pronouns that begin them. In the last part of the course, you’ll demonstrate what you’ve learned by writing a paragraph.
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13 hours
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English
Platform Thinking: what’s beyond Uber?
Over the last two decades, platforms have transformed the way, we search for information (e.g., Google), buy goods (e.g., Amazon), consume news and media (e.g., Facebook and Twitter) and travel and move around (e.g., Airbnb, Booking.com, Uber and TripAdvisor). This phenomenon is known as 'the power of platforms', defined as an innovative business model that relies on digital technologies to assemble people, knowledge and companies in an interactive ecosystem where value can be created, captured and shared.
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TOEFL Test-Taking Strategies
This course prepares non-native speakers of English to take the TOEFL iBT exam by providing helpful tips and proven techniques for successfully completing the reading, listening, speaking, and writing sections of the iBT. In this course, you will learn a variety of strategies such as note-taking, using templates, and analyzing speech patterns, and you will review many sample questions and responses. This course also teaches how to best practice and prepare for test day as well as how to manage your time and perform optimally during the exam.
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8 hours
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English
Training and Practicing in English Public Speaking
Professor Zhang is Central South University’s top training coach in English speaking and interpreting contests and has engaged in teaching and research on English speaking and interpreting as well as competition training for more than ten years. This is a course which improves your comprehensive skills of listening, speaking, reading, writing and thinking: you will overcome your bad listening habits and advance listening skills; you will correct your pronunciation and improve language quality and delivery; you will collect and analyze materials quickly and efficiently; you will enhance wr
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10 hours
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English
Low Intermediate English: Planning & Organization
In this course, you will learn important language for planning your life, including your social life, your travels, and your work. Learning activities in this course will take place on Voxy, an engaging language learning platform that automatically adapts to your current level and your performance across reading, listening, speaking, grammar, and vocabulary skills so that every lesson is optimized for rapid improvement. Each week is made up of engaging, short, task-based lessons that can be done anywhere, anytime.
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19 hours
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English
Management Communication 管理沟通
About this course China’s “One Belt, One Road” strategy is influencing the global economy and carrying the development and prosperity dreams of many countries, nations and people. How to communicate effectively with Chinese people? How to understand the Chinese way of management behavior?
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Mandarin Chinese for Intermediate Learners: Part 1
"Mandarin Chinese 1: Chinese for Intermediate Learners" is the first course of the MOOC specialization "Learn Intermediate Mandarin Chinese" created by Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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17 hours
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English
Lesson | Telephone Language
This lesson is part of a full course, Speak English Professionally: In Person, Online & On the Phone. Take this lesson to get a short tutorial on the learning objectives covered. To dive deeper into this topic, take the full course. By the end of this lesson, you will be able to identify telephone language through phone dialogues.
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English for Running a Successful Business
In this course, as you read passages and watch videos, you will learn about the challenges of entrepreneurship, the importance of sales professionals in every company, and how to read numbers and graphs in sales reports. You will also learn how important project management and sustainability are for companies in modern times. Additionally, you will learn the correct usage of modal verbs and phrasal verbs as well as how to clearly ask for clarification. Your professional communication skills will improve as you incorporate these lessons into your English.
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17 hours
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English
Study Skills for University Success
In this course, you’ll learn about many important skills to support your study, including time management, discovering your own learning styles, and reading more effectively and increasing your vocabulary. You’ll hear some guidelines for studying effectively in online or remote classes, which are becoming more and more popular in university-level education. You’ll also improve your skills in listening to lectures and taking good notes to help you as you study for tests.
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9 hours
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English
Mandarin Chinese for Intermediate Learners: Capstone Project
"Mandarin Chinese: Capstone Project for Intermediate Learners" is the fourth and final course of the MOOC specialization "Learn Intermediate Mandarin Chinese" created by Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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9 hours
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English
Inglés Empresarial: Gestión y Liderazgo
Are you a business executive or a manager who uses English in your career? Then you know that good business communication in English requires focus, vocabulary, and specific linguistic structures. In this course, you will follow along a recently promoted manager as she builds and leads her team to success.
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商务英语课程:财经英语 Finance & Economics
你在财务领域工作或是和财务专业人员常互动吗 ? 在你的职业生涯，你需说、写或是听得懂英文吗? 跟着本课程真实情境的人物，你会看到他们试着解决一般的商务情况，你会从你的成功和失败的经验中学习，并批判式的思考你沟通方式的抉择。在上完本课程后，你将能够读写电子邮件，报告，以及使用财务和经济的一般用语给予有效的简报。在压力之下，清楚地沟通、利用最近所学的策略，并对于你的商务沟通技巧的有效性，立即得到其他全世界财务专业人士的回馈! 获得你所想要的和全球的经理所期待的英语沟通能力。 Do you work in finance or interact with finance professionals? Is it necessary to speak, write or understand English in your career? Follow the authentic characters in this course as they work through common business situations in finance and economics. Learn from your successes and failure, and think critically about your own communication options.
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Chinese Characters for beginner 汉字
Welcome to "Chinese Characters for beginner"! This is an elementary course on learning Chinese characters. Together, we will start from the basic element of Chinese characters-- Strokes. Then we will learn 1,200 basic Chinese words composed of 240 commonly used Chinese characters, which begin with “一”(one), including pronunciation, shape and meaning, so that to improve the learning effect.
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Pluralidades em Português Brasileiro
Pluralidades em Português Brasileiro is a five-week long online self-access course whose aim is to expand intercultural awareness and develop upper intermediate/advanced reading and listening comprehension skills regarding Brazilian Portuguese as a foreign language. An extra week was added to expand the topics of the course. From a pluralist perspective, the course aims at exploring cultural topics and linguistic diversity. The course activities are based on contextualized use of Brazilian Portuguese in several communicative situations.
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是誰在說話 -- 可愛的臺灣。（Intermediate Chinese）
This course uses four scenic locations in Taiwan as the main topics. Besides emphasis on teaching vocabulary, grammar, and text comprehension, each lesson’s text will feature a non-human protagonist, retelling the past and present of each location. Starting from the north and heading south, each lesson combines the historical, cultural, and modern faces of these landmarks. Using fun dialogue between characters,we will string together different stories about the lovely Taiwan one by one.
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中级商务汉语（入职与营销篇）
本课程是针对具有一定汉语水平的外国学习者的中级商务汉语课程。课程共分为两篇六课，共需六周时间。“两篇”是根据学习内容的不同分为的公司入职篇和市场营销篇。其中公司入职篇包括：招聘广告、应聘面试、入职第一天；产品营销篇包括产品介绍、市场营销、售后服务。 本课程的学习目标有三：一是进一步提高以汉语作为第二语言的学习者在汉语听、说、读这三个方面的技能；二是学习并掌握常用的商务汉语词汇及句式表达；三是了解中国特有的商务礼仪和商务文化。 就具体学习的课程而言，在本课程结束后，学习者可以基本看懂招聘广告的主要信息，在公司的面试中与面试官进行基本的交流，并能与中国同事进行日常工作上的会话；可以对产品进行简要的介绍和说明，并在市场营销和售后服务环节与客户进行基本的交流。 学生者需要具有汉语的中级水平，最好已掌握800-1000个汉语基本词语。 本课程的学习环节包括：观看教学视频，每周5个，时长平均在15分钟左右；完成与当天的教学视频相关的练习题；完成每周的测试和同伴互评。
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A Bridge to the World: Korean Language for Intermediate1
This course is designed for anyone who wants to learn Korean. This course is useful for learners who want to improve their communication skills on personal topics frequently encountered in their daily life after learning basic Korean. Through this class, you can use expressions such as introducing, talking about experiences, and comforting, and you will be able to increase your understanding of basic Korean culture. This course is organized in the order of core expression, conversation, grammar, and self-assessment.
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12 hours
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Korean
现代汉语核心语法
本课程根据外国学生学习汉语的特点，比较系统地介绍了汉语的主要语法，像词类、句子成分、单句、复句、篇章、表达方法，等等；着重指出了外国学习者学习汉语语法的难点和重点，并通过大量有针对性的练习，帮助学习者去掌握、运用，从而提高学习者的汉语水平。 According to the characteristics of the foreign student learning Chinese, this course systematically introduces the main grammar of Chinese, such as part of speech, sentence constituent, single sentence, complex sentence, discourse, expression method.
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A Bridge to the World: Korean Language for Advanced Ⅰ
Through this course, you can understand Korean more deeply and get advanced Korean language skills. This course is for advanced Korean learners who are interested in Korean language and culture. The course consists of 5 lessons, each lesson has the main topic of language, job, science, pop culture, and international issues. You can listen to and understand news and dialogues, and learn the expressions used in them in each lesson. Also, on the last day of each week, you can share your opinions with other learners through discussion activities. Take your Korean up a notch with this course!
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总计划案 Final Project
对于国际工作环境不熟悉的商务专业人士，普遍需要的能力是能写发表新产品的行动方案。在这工作实务，有一人必须和公司内的各不同的部门沟通，包括财务和营销部。在这总计划案，你将写一份发表新产品的行动方案。这计划将包含: ● 项目现况报告 ● 营销活动 ● 项目的基本预算分析报告 ● 对管理阶层做项目阶段简报 这项目将提供机会让你应用本课程你所学的英语技能，提升你目前工作所要求的有用文件，或是用一份文件来当作范例，可呈现出你的新能力和技能。 A common necessity among business professionals who are new to an international work environment is the ability to create a plan of action to launch a new product. In this task, one has to communicate with many different departments within a company including finance and marketing. In this capstone project, you will create a plan of action to launch a new product.
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Chinese for HSK 4
大家好！Hi, everyone, welcome to join our Chinese for HSK Level 4 course. This is CHEN Li and LU Yun, and we are very happy to meet you here! Chinese for HSK 4 is a 10-week course. It consists of two parts: Part I, which is a 6-week program, covers vocabulary and grammar delivered mainly through dialogues and passages; Part II takes 4 weeks to complete and the foci are exercises and testing strategies. Chinese for HSK 4 aims at the fourth level of HSK.
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56 hours
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Chinese
Akademiskt skrivande
Hur lär jag mig skriva fungerande texter? Det är en fråga som många studenter söker svar på. I denna kurs tar vi upp vad som är viktigt i det akademiska skrivandet. Du får konkreta tips på vad du kan tänka på för att utveckla både dina texter och ditt skrivande.
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Swedish
Learning Chinese : Start From Scratch (零到一學中文)
This is a six-week introductory course in Mandarin Chinese conversation. The course will be taught completely in Mandarin, however students are not expected to have any experience learning Chinese. This course’s main objective is to study practical conversation. By watching videos showing various kinds of situations, learners will recognize and understand vocabulary, pair everyday words together with grammar to form short phrases, and learn the correct way to express words used in day-to-day life.
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Chino básico: La etiqueta social en los negocios
El segundo curso del Programa Especializado Chino básico para hispanohablantes: lenguaje y cultura empresarial tiene un enfoque en el lenguaje que se puede usar en posibles situaciones profesionales. Antes de aprender este lenguaje, se repasará la información aprendida el en curso anterior. Para poder entender bien el contenido de este curso, es necesario que el aprendiz tome el primer curso antes de entrar en este.
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Spanish