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Programa divulgativo sobre la historia de España. reportajes .George Orwell durante la Guerra Civil en Barcelona. El estudio del oro de los Quimbayas del Museo de América de Madrid. ENTREVISTA A Manuel Lucena sobre las independencias americanas.

La evolución de la especie humana desde sus orígenes en África, hasta su desarrollo en Atapuerca (España), con la participación de los más prestigiosos científicos y la presentación de Juan Luis Ausaga, codirector de las excavaciones en Atapuerca.
Gorilas de las montañas de Ruanda, chimpancés en Tanzania y orangutanes en Indonesia. También la fauna africana en Kenia, Chad, Sudáfrica y otras localizaciones en Argentina, Polonia, Marruecos, Alemania o Alaska. Un rápido recorrido desde las oscuras y lluviosas selvas Africanas, donde habitaron nuestros más remotos antepasados, hace seis millones de años, hasta nuestros días.

So, overall, I found this an incredibly useful and illuminating process and far less time-consuming and boring than I had anticipated. At the point where in my translation I was reaching 95% accuracy, I let it go, although others might prefer to keep on going to 100% I found that I was wanting to move on from the text by this point. Careful text selection is vital, but I found that a range of text genres were appropriate for my own needs: during my experimentation I used a news article, an extract from The Hunger Games, a diary entry, and a formal complaint letter. The main takeaway for me is that this is a method that I will choose to use weekly, alongside my other acquisition techniques but that I cannot necessarily predict what I will really pick up on during the process. I can easily see that three months of this, as Luca suggests, would provide the language learner with an incredibly solid base in a language, although I would like to try it in a language where I have a lower level (perhaps my cruddy German) to see how valuable it would be for lower level students.