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About the Class: |
A brief history of Spoken English:
- More than 360 dialects of English were spoken in London alone.
- British Public Schools took the initiative and cultivated the south London speech as proper English. This was known as It was known as PSP.
- When more and more institutions joined this effort to standardize English the nomenclature changed. It started being called RP
- The first pronouncing dictionary was released in the year 1917
- The English being spoken all over the world is supposed to be of the RP variety.
- During colonial period English went to other countries and started acquiring regional accent and started incarnating in regional varieties
- The last decades of the 20th century saw English emerge as World Language.
- 21st Century is the era of World Standard Spoken English
Some facts about English:
- English began its life in the 5th Century as a humble dialect brought to England by the Germanic tribes.
- It grew into a language of sorts after the Norman conquest
- Today it is the largest language of the world.
- It is the language of 7/10 of all the letters written everyday all of the world
- It is the medium of and 6/10 of the radio & television programs produced all over the world.
- About 80% of the world electronically stored information is in English
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About the presenter:
ID Shukla
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Dr ID Shukla, former Principal of GMN (PG) College Ambala Cantt , is the Director of Griffins, one of the leading institutions providing training inspoken English. He has been teaching English since 1965.
Hon Citizen of TEXAS and a bearer of State Coat of Arms Pennsylvania USA,he has been associated with people of varied cultural and educational backgrounds.
In the session, Dr. Shukla would be elaborating on the concepts of WSSE.The attendees are free to ask him questions on any aspect of Spoken English.
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