Building a Better Vocabulary • Course Guidebook with Video (2015)
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Building a Better Vocabulary, taught by Professor Kevin Flanigan of West Chester University of Pennsylvania, offers an intriguing look at the nuts and bolts of English, teaches you the etymology (history) and morphology (structure) of words, and delves into the cognitive science behind committing new words to long-term memory.
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The 60th anniversary Reith Lectures take China as their subject, and are given by the eminent historian Professor Jonathan Spence, Sterling Professor of History at Yale University. A Reith Lecture is a lecture in a series of annual radio lectures given by leading figures of the day, commissioned by the BBC and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. They were begun in 1948, in honour of the first Director-General of the BBC, John Reith.
