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18 results found for all records.
Morning Live - WELS
Language Learning
- Broadcast
- 2024 (11 mins)
The belief that learning a new language is more difficult as you get older is a myth. In fact, older people are just as capable as children. This film will take two case studies who up for a challenge, and...
Wales: Music Nation with Huw Stephens
Episode 1
- Broadcast
- 2022 (60 mins)
Wales is known as the Land of Song, a musical nation. But where does the idea come from, and what does the music of Wales tell us about who we are? Music fanatic Huw Stephens delves deep into the surprising...
Wales: Music Nation with Huw Stephens
Episode 2
- Broadcast
- 2022 (59 mins)
Huw Stephens continues with his quest to assemble a Welsh music mixtape, picking out his personal musical highlights from across the centuries. In this episode, he explores the explosion of Welsh pop in the...
The SuperLinguists
Episode 1
- Broadcast
- 2019 (26 mins)
Simon Calder meets people who keep learning new languages not because they have to, but because they want to. What motivates them? Situations like this - an immigrant hotel cleaner who is moved to tears...
The SuperLinguists
Episode 2
- Broadcast
- 2019 (26 mins)
Simon Calder asks how to go about acquiring a new tongue. He gets tips from those who know - innovative teachers and polyglots. The answers are surprising. At school, it is repetitive drills, shouted out...
The SuperLinguists
Episode 3
- Broadcast
- 2019 (26 mins)
What is it like to live in a place where you have to speak several languages to get by? Simon Calder travels to India, where a top university only teaches in English, the one language that the students from...
The SuperLinguists
Episode 4
- Broadcast
- 2019 (26 mins)
Presenter Simon Calder is from Britain, where, on the surface, everyone speaks English. In Brazil everyone appears to speak Portuguese, in Russia, Russian. But scratch the surface, and other languages...
Are Our Kids Tough Enough? - Chinese School
Are Our Kids Tough Enough? - Chinese School - EP3
- Broadcast
- 2015 (59 mins)
In this unique experiment, five teachers from China take over the education of fifty teenagers in a Hampshire school to see whether the high-ranking Chinese education system can teach us a lesson. It’s...
Are Our Kids Tough Enough? - Chinese School
Are Our Kids Tough Enough? - Chinese School - EP2
- Broadcast
- 2015 (58 mins)
In this unique experiment, five teachers from China take over the education of fifty teenagers in a Hampshire school to see whether the high-ranking Chinese education system can teach us a lesson. As the...
Are Our Kids Tough Enough? - Chinese School
Are Our Kids Tough Enough? - Chinese School - EP1
- Broadcast
- 2015 (59 mins)
In a unique experiment, five teachers from China take over the education of fifty teenagers in a Hampshire school to see whether the high-ranking Chinese education system can teach us a lesson. Will the...