Received Pronunciation

Having looked at several websites recommended on our pronunciation practice page, I realized that this is actually going to be a lot of fun. I always had a thing for different English accents and finally this predilection of mine is going to pay off, hopefully. So far I collect different accents like other people stamps or coins or those weird cards. With that I do not mean that I can actually pronounce and speak in different accents. No, that would be a really arrogant. What I have in mind are TV shows like “Downtown Abbey” (northern English accent maybe Yorkshire) “Hart of Dixie” (broad southern American English), listening to Maggie Smith with her fabulous Scottish accent in Harry Potter or listening to Dublin radio shows. I just love accents.

 Regarding my future pronunciation I would have to say that I definitely prefer the received pronunciation in the British English. I think it will be easier for me to do because I actually lived in Winchester, England for four months. Another reason will be all my former English teachers who encouraged us to speak British English. Having looked at the pronunciation exercises I realize it is going to be a lot of work, but I think it is worth the effort. One video that in particular was very interesting for me is where they compare the British and the American English. Her you can see that even though many people think there are not that many words that are pronounced differently it starts with easy things like garage. Still the girls did it in a funny way, and I am going to have lots of fun with all the exercises. 

I actually found this video on youtube, maybe it could help some of you too:

 

Deflation crisis in Europe

Summary:      Europe already has one foot in ‘Japanese’ deflation grave

Ambrose Evans- Pritchard writes in his article, published in The Telegraph on October 23th 2013, about Europe’s inflation crisis and how policy errors increase debt. He describes Europe as the world’s next epicenter of policy errors. Consequently, deflation becomes lethal for most of Western Europe. Many countries, for example France, Italy, Spain etc. have seen price falls and are now standing with one foot in deflation. The Eurozone is close to the danger of exploding dept ratios. Using the example of Italy there are two options to get out of this dilemma - return to the lira or increase the primary budget to 6.3% to stabilize debt, which is unrealistic. Over the past two years, Italy’s debt has jumped from 121% to 132% - this ‘denominator effect’ happens when debt rise faster than the nominal GDP. It is not only the public debt, but also the private debt which causes problems. Companies run down their liquid assets to stay in business. The author proposes a possible break out of this impasse with Club Med forcing Germany to accept inflation. He says once you let deflation lodge in your system, it takes heaven and earth to get out of it.

My comments:

I like the topic sentence. However, there is no space between names that are joined with a hyphen.
The second sentence more or less repeats what you have said already, so it is kind of redundant. I would lose it.
The ext mistake that caught my eye is this part: "increase the primary budget to 6.3% to stabilize debt". I do not think, "to 6.3%" is unclear. First of all, it would be "by 6.3%". Secondly, 6.3% of what? 

debt rises

The last couple of sentences in your paragraph do not link very well. I can see your bullet points.

Again I do like the last sentence. Even though, I am not sure whether or not the register is right.

The Concil of Europe

The Council of Europe is the most important organisation besides the European Union in Europe. It was founded in 1949 by ten European states in order to promote democratic stability, human rights, the rule of law and fundamental freedoms all over Europe. The Council further strives to raise awareness of Europe’s cultural identity and diversity. Currently there are 47 members, including all EU member states as well as several other European countries. The general requirements for a country to join this international organisation are to be at least partially located on the European Continent and to share the goals the ten founding countries stated. However, countries that are located beyond European borders can join too, as observer or partner, provided they accept the Council’s guiding principles. These states are permitted to send representatives to the meetings of the Committee of Ministers and intergovernmental committees in order to observe these assemblies. With the Parliamentary Assembly, which consists of 318 men and women from all the member states,  they may attain observer status, meaning that they are authorized to engage in Assembly sessions, only without voting rights. Furthermore the Council also partners up with organizations such as the EU, the UN and a variety of international organizations, including the Arab League Educational, Cultural, Scientific Organization (ALECSO) or the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). The main purpose of the Council, with it’s members, observers and partners, is to assure democracy in and cooperation between all European countries, which makes this organisation one of the most important on our continent.