Video: Fine Arts Lessons: An Inspirational English Language Poster Series from Britanico
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Institute of English Britanico (Britanico) has dedicated his new poster series to the problem of mastering correct pronunciation. With restrained English humor and beautiful visuals, these works make it clear how improper articulation can transform a singer Cher (Cher) into a chair, and ashes into a donkey.
According to statistics, English is the native language of 337 million people, and 350 million people use it as a second language. This makes it one of the most universal languages in the world, which opens up very tempting prospects for its speakers. It is worth noting that nowadays qualified English teachers have lost their monopoly on language teaching and have given way to such learning tools as popular TV series with subtitles, video games and rock songs.
Despite the fact that such methods really contributed to the massive craze for learning English, the institute Britanico reasonably considers them very dubious.
Correct pronunciation is a sensitive issue, and the most popular reaction of people to this problem is to ignore it. New series of posters from Britanico in the popular "comic" form demonstrates the "adventures" of words along the path from "what the author wanted to say" to "what he managed to say." Here the word “boat” is easily transformed into “boot”, and “gel” - into “jail”. The slogan accompanying these posters reads “Say what you mean to say”.
It is curious that specialists from the institute Britanicowho are equally well versed in the secrets of English language humor and correct pronunciation, live far beyond Foggy Albion … This institute is located in Peru and teachers are recruited mainly from the local population, which dispels the myth about the English language, available for deep development only by the indigenous people Great Britain.
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