M.Pilar Cabrerizo
Teacher catalan's language and literature I like to travel and learn as much as possible.
Location Barcelona. Catalonia
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I love St Pancras station. Its red brick gothic facade, the wide and clear iron structures, the sculpture that represents lovers saying goodbye or that of the poet John Betjeman, the magnificent clock tower … It’s my favorite in London.
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I haven't read the book or seen the movie but now I have the urge to.
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As a language and literature teacher this is my favorite part of the course. Stations are undoubtedly important in literature. They come to mind: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie, Strangers on a Train by Patrícia Highsmith or the most recent The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins.
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I love all four of them. The difference would be marked by the prevailing style of the time. While the first is a mix between an Art Nouveau and Noucentism art, the third is clearly Futurist.
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I find the poem very funny. It made me laugh a lot.
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This is the job description currently given to job search portals:
“A Porter, or a Baggage Porter, helps travellers carry luggage at airports, train stations, hotels, cruise ships, and similar establishments. Their duties include keeping baggage areas and other parts of the location clean and presentable to customers; transferring baggage on and off planes,... -
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I miss the time when there was a stationmaster at the stations.
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I didn't know that the Brönte's brother had been stationmaster. Very interesting information.
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-What were the stations like
- What was he eating
- What could be bought (very interesting book collections)
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I think it's very clever to use literature to "get revenge" for the bad treatment received at the stations. It is clear that when it comes to Dickens, intelligence is already presupposed.
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The luggage they carry catches my attention. I think that one of the things that has changed the most in traveling today is suitcases.
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Yes. I didn't know that the stations also took into account the defense of the cities.
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I think that current stations continue to give importance to architecture but above all functionality is sought.
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I've never played a game like this. I’m sorry!
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I enrolled in this course because I like to learn new things and this topic is quite unfamiliar to me. I hope to learn as much as possible.
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Thank you. I really enjoyed this cours.
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4/5 I stress its value in serving as a model for subsequent crime novels that have undoubtedly been, are, and will be inspired. Tkank you for the course.
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It didn't surprise me because I think that the crime novel has always been closely linked to social issues and specifically to class differences. Not only in the British novel but in everything in general.
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An example can be Holmes' description of Watson's brother from the clock:
“ He was a man of untidy habits, very untidy and careless. He was left wit good prospects, but he threw away his chances, lived for some time lived in poverty, with ocasionals short intervals of prosperity, and finally taking to drink he died. That's all I can gather.” -
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Agatha Christie's books also always feature incompetent police officers who don't know how to interpret the clues and are unable to solve the cases.
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For me love is above social classes. However, I think that Watson must have felt calmer when he knew that his girlfriend would not be rich, so he could never think that he was marrying for interest but for love.
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It seems clear that Holmes comes from a good family but in addition his fame makes him earn money. Watson, on the other hand, lives with Holmes because he cannot afford a house on his own.
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Tonga is introduced to us as a very small man (he has a child's foot) and it is clear that he belongs to a low social class.
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I voted combination because I think it combines the forward-looking narrative with the retrospective and both are united in the plot.
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It is more appealing to the reader to start the facts from the need of the client in hiring the detective and from there move back or forward the story as needed.
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I got it right on the second try. In the first one I had some small mistake that I saw right away. It cost me a lot less than The Murders in the rue Morgue.
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The theory of Todorov us can be useful when it comes to better understanding the structure of crime novels, but in practice the stories do not always conform to such hermetic classifications and escape on one side or the other.
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I think of Chronicle of a Death Announced by Gabriel García Márquez where it begins by narrating all the events that will take place after the murder.
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I think that the way he treats people like for example Mr. Sholto indicates that he does care about people.
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Holmes acts with scientific method. Examines fingerprints and takes measurements of the crime scene.
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1. Holmes needs to keep his mind busy, it's his drug and when he doesn't have it he has to turn to cocaine.
2. Holmes is very thorough in his investigations and possesses a great capacity for observation and deduction.
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Something that has really caught my attention this week is to discover Allan Poe's influence on later crime writers.
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I think that Agatha Christie with both her detective Hercules Poirot and Miss Marple have followed the innovations of Allan Poe and his detective Dupin in terms of the figure of a detective to whom no case can be resisted.
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I think once we know the outcome we can realize that the clues were clear and there was no distractions as the brutality of the crimes and the finding of non-human hair are clear clues. However, it is difficult to reach a conclusion at the same time that the researcher. I think Dupin is always one step ahead of the reader.
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Although I think Poe involves us, the nature of the crime - committed by a non-human being - makes it difficult for the reader to resolve. In this sense I enjoy stories by writers like Agatha Christie more than with the clues I see myself more able to get the mystery right although sometimes I am also surprised.
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This exercise really took me a bit.
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The narrator is a friend of the detective Dupin and acts as a witness narrator who accompanies the detective throughout the investigation process.
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Admittedly, I found the preface very boring.
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Two women are found brutally murdered in their home, on the rue Morgue. It seems impossible to find out how this terrible murder could have been committed. But Dupin is smarter than anyone.
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Criminal literature has many clichés that are repeated over and over again: private investigators with few financial resources who have seedy offices, degraded and marginal environments... and I think it is these clichés that give it its own accent and special appeal.
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I don't think so. Everything is literature and everything allows you to immerse yourself in new worlds.
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I think the crime novel is climbing the ranks and becoming more and more well-regarded.
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I think that the detective novel has evolved a lot and is now mixed with the novel of social criticism. This for me is positive as it allows us not only to enjoy a good story but also to become aware of the social problems of the places where they happen.
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I have already taken many courses with Futurlearn, especially language and literature, and I really like them.
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Hello everyone. I am a professor of Catalan literature in Barcelona and a big fan of reading detective novels.
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I really enjoyed this course and I think I learned a lot about Burns. My word on the wall was ROMANTIC because that's the only thing I knew about him, that he was a Scottish poet and romantic. Now I could put many more: PASSIONATE, PATRIOTIC, BRAVE, CONFIDENT, IN LOVE, SENSITIVE, BARD, INFLUENTIAL...
I'm sorry to see the course come to an end as I've really... -
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I find it very appropriate to celebrate the new year and I really like this song. From now on it will also be sung in our celebrations on December 31.
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I was surprised to learn how popular Burns is. I didn't know it had memorials in so many places. I only know the one in Edinburgh which is what motivated me to do this course.
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I think the idea of supper is fantastic. I would love to attend one. I saw that in Barcelona there are two places that do it and I will investigate it.
It is normal that he eats haggis . The haggis are mentioned in his poems, it is the most typical Scottish dish. I tasted it for the first time last Easter in a pub in Inverness.
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Although Burns was a rural poet who wrote in Scots, his themes were universal and interesting. Also the recovery of folklore that might have been lost without him, has contributed to him being loved and remembered.
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It has been a pleasure to share this week and learn so much about Burns. See you next week.
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I stick with a Burns songwriter as that also includes a Burns poet. Every songwriter needs a lyric for his song that he can copy or create. If he creates it he is also a poet and that is how I see Burns.
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Burns' success is to move from the particular fact (love for the ex-partner, for the partner who is at war) to the general, the love for all our loved ones and the sadness of saying goodbye to them.
I really like both versions and they excite me. Thompson's is the one I know and the one we sing at home, but Johson’s is also very emotional and I've heard it...
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In Catalonia, we sing this song to say goodbye when a stage ends, an academic year... or at funerals. It's called L’hora dels adeus (Goodbye Time).
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I think if I were Burns I'd rather work with Thompson than Johnson. I think Thompson was more demanding and maybe more rigorous in his work and he was more involved, he cared more.
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Although the story is about love for a girl, I think it can also be interpreted as Burns' love for his country.
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Unfortunately Poetry and sons of Burns at the BBC are not available in Catalonian.
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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion
Has broken Nature’s social union … ‘
I would say that here you can see this going from the ‘local’(mouse) to the ‘universal’ (humanity in general).I can clearly see that the mouse is an allegory for humanity and I like the simplicity with which Burns deals with transcendental themes
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I find this comment on the poem very interesting:
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It took me a lot to make the transcription since to the difficulties of seeing the lines and punctuation I add those of the language since neither English nor Scottish are languages that I know so thoroughly as to do- it.
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Burns is inspired by Scottish folklore and traditions. Burns was a ‘bard’ mor than only a poet as he not only composed poems but also aimed to ensure that Scottish culture and traditions were not forgotten and kept alive among his people
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Thank you
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I really enjoyed everything I learned this week.
My question is:
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Burns believed in the People and defended it, maybe that's why they considered him a radical. He believed more in the intelligence and freedom of people than in money and power. I very much agree with this way of thinking and feel close to Burn's ideals
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If you hadn't known Burns before as a lover you might think the poem wasn't entirely sincere but the image I got of him is that of a man who falls deeply in love with women.
‘Ae fond kiss, and then we sever’ it is the verse that has reached my heart the most because I think it is very sad for him to say goodbye to her. The fact that he wishes her happiness at... -
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I would never judge anyone for their private life, least of all a poet whose works interest me and not his lovers or children.
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Scots Who Have
Scots who have with Wallace bled
Scots whom Bruce has often led
Welcome to your gory bed
Or to victory!
Now's the day, and now's the hour
See the front of battle glower
See approach proud Edward's power
Chains and slavery!
Who will be a traitor knave?
Who can fill a coward's grave?
Who's so base to be a slave?
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Any Catalan poet, Espriu, Maragall... represent the same people's ideals as Burns since the problems of Catalonia with Spain are the same as those of Scotland with England.
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I have chosen the word Romantic because his poetry inspired the English Romantic poets and I believe that his poetry itself could be defined as Romantic.
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For Easter I went to Edinburgh and visited the monument to the poet. This caused me a great need to know him better.
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Maggie O'Farrell's recently published novel Hamnet describes a Shakespeare who as a teacher of Latin in his youth. Obviously it is a fiction but it demonstrates the idea that it was believed to have dominated Latin.
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About 1700
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It has motivated me a lot this week although as English is not my language I have to make an extra effort to be able to follow some of the vocabulary topics.
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It's not the same. In this case you already have the language base learned, in the case of a foreign language you have to learn the linguistic structures of the new language.
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For me Shakespeare’s language is the language of his plays, the way his characters spoke and how he expressed his feelings.
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In Catalonia, the family meets for Christmas lunch instead of dinner. The traditional cuisine of this day is soup with a special pasta called "galets" and then we eat the ingredients of the pot where we made the soup: chickpeas, potatoes, meat, chicken ... For dessert, nougat and cookies Christmas called "neules".
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Here in Catalonia we all celebrate birthdays a lot. We do this with a cake with candles and we usually drink cava (Catalan champagne) to celebrate health for another year.
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In Catalonia we have many celebrations with food: Easter with a typical cake "mona" with chocolate eggs, which is given to children, the summer solstice with fruit cake and pine nuts or Christmas with nougat.
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I prefer tea in a cup, without milk, with sugar and with cakes. I love Christmas teas with cinnamon or vanilla
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Catalan cream is one of the best desserts here. In this link you will know more about this dish
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I mean the EMPANADAS. I consulted the translator and he told me this. In fact they are a kind of meat pies.
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When we want to take away food it is always pizza, Argentine pies or sushi. With the pandemic, when restaurants were closed, we used this service much more.
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We usually buy fresh food once a week at the market and the rest of the food and cleaning products at the supermarket.
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I don’t really like cooking shows and that’s why I don’t follow them. When I want to find recipes I go directly to youtube. The best known chefs here are the Roca brothers,Ferran Adrià, Carme Ruscalleda, Nando Jubany, Jordi Cruz...many of them with Michelin stars.
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My grandmother and mother taught me the basics but now I check the internet to discover new ideas
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I always remember the image of my grandmother cooking. She was such a good cook! At home I usually cook and I like it but more and more my husband is taking the taste and also cooking.
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I am not vegan or vegetarian as I believe that a healthy diet should have all kinds of varied foods without exceeding any of them. I think there are more and more possibilities for vegans as there are many and they have to count on them.
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In my country the typical sandwiches are ham and cheese, sausage and omelette but above all bread with tomato and ham
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In Catalonia, lunch is the most important meal of the day. It consists of two dishes and dessert. For starters: pasta, soup, legumes or salad and main course meat or fish. For dessert, usually fruit or yogurt or sometimes more elaborate desserts
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What I liked most this week was exchanging recipes with people from differents countries and the tikka massala chicken recipe
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Delicious!
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My favorite is the tajine, ha, ha
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I'm sure
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In our cuisine, as Mediterranean cuisine, we use spices such as basil, thyme, oregano ...
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Yes, I have ever cooked it. I love it
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Bread with tomato, escalibada and esqueixada (salad with cod) are typical dishes of Catalonia. La paella, from Valencia
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Yes, true. But there are dishes that are usually cooked everywhere such as hummus, tajine, falafel, harira, couscous, babaghanoush or honey and nuts cakes.
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In Barcelona we have the Raval district which is where we can find more variety of restaurants with different cuisines. But really in Barcelona you can find all kinds of restaurants everywhere.
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I like a lot the Victoria sponge. The recipe:
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/classic-victoria-sandwich-recipe
