* English > 12th Grade: 2011

18.10.11

Japanese English

Usually, the oral form of this variety is called Japanglish while the written one is usually denominated Engrish.

Here's a video about Japanglish:

And HERE is a website where you can read some funny Engrish examples . Engrish is usually referred to as bad English as you'll be able to see on the site.

Pidgin (Hawaiin English)

Pidgin is not an official language, the official languages in Hawaii are English and Hawaiin. Pidgin, or Hawaiin Creole English, is used by the residents in everyday life.

If you want to hear Hawaiin accent when speaking English, you can search for Barack Obama speeches or Bruno Mars interviews (they're both from Hawaii, and from Honolulu).

Iwan Rheon interview in Welsh (you can choose to watch with subtitles) . Iwan is an actor and a singer.

Here he is speaking English. The other guy in the video is Robert Sheehan and he is Irish. This is from Misfits (you can read about the series here).

And you can watch/listen tothe Irish one a little more in this video.

4.10.11

"If you're half-Chinese, I'm half-black. I'm your brother and I'm fly. You down with that, Snoopy? That's dope, ain't it?"

This is a funny part from the movie "Rush Hour 3"

Watch the way the character Carter talks and understands(or not) the chinese guy.

21.9.11

welcome

Hello my dear students.

Here you can find some of the things I show you in classes, extra materials, suggestions, exercises, etc...

You can also post messages and write comments.

Have fun...

17.5.11

23.3.11

pop art

Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is connected to the perspective of fine art. Pop removes the material from its context and isolates the object, or combines it with other objects, for contemplation.

Pop art employs aspects of mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects. Pop art is aimed to employ images of popular as opposed to elitist culture in art, emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any given culture, most often through the use of irony. It is also associated with the artists' use of mechanical means of reproduction or rendering techniques.

The conceptual practices that are often used make it difficult for some to readily comprehend. Pop art and minimalism are considered to be art movements that precede postmodern art, or are some of the earliest examples of Postmodern Art themselves.

Pop art often takes as its imagery that which is currently in use in advertising - product labeling and logos figure prominently in the imagery chosen by pop artists, like in the Campbell's Soup Cans labels, by Andy Warhol. Even the labeling on the shipping carton containing retail items has been used as subject matter in pop art, for example in Warhol's Campbell's Tomato Juice Box 1964, or his Brillo Soap Box sculptures.