Live Online Web Seminar: World Standard Spoken English Public Class

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

1. English began its life in the 5th Century as a humble dialect brought to England by the Germanic tribes.
2. It grew into a language of sorts after the Norman conquest
3. Today it is the largest language of the world.
4. It is the language of 7/10 of all the letters written everyday all of the world
5. It is the medium of and 6/10 of the radio & television programs produced all over the world.
6. About 80% of the world electronically stored information is in English

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