10 October, 2005

LB2 DVD: the great textbook for English phonetics

This is what I've been longing for. Finally, the second series of Little Britain, BBC's hit comedy, is released today.

It will brings some senses of the UK to my mind and makes me laugh. Since I came back to Tokyo, I've led a life, which is not really connected to "English". No matter what I do, of course, there're few chances to get in touch with "English" here in Japan.

However, at lease I've got Internet and satellite channel's BBC. They barely keep my English. And this Little Britain is also helpful for me.

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By the way, there is another story.

Last month, I got an e-mail from my professor of English phonetics, who taught me at university. He asked me to come to his class and talk about studying in Cardiff. I finally said yes after thinking twice. The reason why I hesitated was because, first, I had to take the morning off; second, I'm not good at talking in front of people. But the reason for the final answer, which was yes, was because I hadn't thanked him for his reference letter for Cardiff university. He is one of those who surpported my going to the UK.

Anyway, I went to my old university last week. I talked about a bit of my life in Cardiff and report about "British English". My speech was not that bad, but not that good. Bit wandering. Nevertheless, the students were more attentive than I expected. No one seemed to texting with a mobile.

English phonetics is a too broad subject. Based on differences of intonation and pronounciation, some students study about American English and some tackle with English spoken by Chinese. But when I say English spoken in one country, it is still broad. To explain this, I wanted to show the Little Britain DVD in the class. "Even in the UK, see how diverse their English is!" If I have a chance to have another speech, I'd show the DVD. Or I'll have my professor buy it at amazon,co.uk.