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The Love Archer’s Thirteenth Arrow
ချစ်မြားရှင်၏ဆယ့်သုံးချောင်းမြောက်မြား
Film · 108 min
Directed by Kyaw Zaw Lin
At the beginning of the story, a young woman named “Nan” (Thet Mon Myint) runs away from home due to various circumstances. While escaping from her parents, who are searching for her, she hurriedly hides inside a house. However, because of unexpected events, she becomes trapped inside and is unable to leave. To avoid being discovered, Nan secretly hides in the house without the knowledge of the owner, “Kyaw Nay” (Min Maw Kun). As time passes, Kyaw Nay eventually notices her presence and finds out that she is hiding there. Fearing that she will be caught and forced to leave, Nan pretends to have a mental illness in order to deceive the situation and continue staying in the house. Believing that Nan is suffering from a mental disorder, Kyaw Nay feels sympathy for her and begins taking care of her. As they live together under the same roof, an unexpected bond slowly develops between them, and pure feelings of affection begin to grow in their hearts.
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Thank you for your link.
It seems you have missed my point though. Your example strongly supports my thesis that this event requires a media analysis.
From your linked article:
> It was in 1951 that BBC radio and the Ministry of Agriculture created The Archers, an "everyday story of country folk", which encouraged farmers to try new techniques to increase productivity in the years after WWII.
> "It's one thing to read a persuasive argument in print it's quite another to be persuaded by the power of the human voice," says Andrew Crisell, Professor of Broadcasting Studies at the University of Sunderland in the UK.
TV shows, news, the BBC, ITV, papers, etc, etc more broadly "stuff on screens" are used to deliver a message. Media literally mediates reality for you - this is how governance occurs. One is given a message, and then most people respond appropriately. (Obv. psychological 'tricks' are known and applied, eg reverse psychology.)
The question for me is what is the message that the media is attempting to be convey in this case? Answers on a postcard.
"comparatively, very few episodes. Especially places like the UK"
OK - Fawlty Towers: 12 episodes. Now, look up the Two Ronnies, Morecambe and Wise, Victoria Wood, Absolutely Fabulous, French and Saunders, Lenny Henry, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Ben Elton, The Fast Show, ... oh and I'm watching Dawn French doing current stand up right now. Jo Brand, ... oh this is getting boring and I've missed out loads. That's just a few comedians.
We have a few soaps that have stood the test of time too and a few current affairs programmes that have been around for a while: Coronation Street, East Enders, Have I got News for you, QI, The Archers, Panorama.
The BBC alone has been running for quite a while and I'll finish with an honourable mention for Blue Peter.
I haven't really refuted your argument but then that was pretty arse to start with. Gave me an excuse to reminisce for a while 8)
Thanks for your pointers.
Apart from the point to which you have replied, there’s one more I would like to add.
I am an Indian, and have a bit of an accent. Am trying to rub it off. I work for US clients and have observed that I can’t crack jokes as easily as they do, nor do I sound as natural in a friendly banter as well as they do. Also, in the excitement of the conversation, sometimes my American client mumble off something which I am unable to grasp, and which my Indian colleague is able to understand with surprising ease. (The fact that my Indian colleague is vernacular medium educated freaks me off even more)
Also, I am preparing for IELTS the second time (Band 8 in first attempt). I am particularly weak in listening. To remediate that, I listen to a BBC podcast everyday called “The Archers”. I miss out on at least 5 points in the podcast, unable to decipher what they meant. That’s one area I am trying to improve at.
The other one is speaking itself. To put in simple words, I am trying to make my speech as fluid as water. The person I am conversing with should be able to understand me effortlessly. Right now my speech is quite rigid and not that articulate. I scored band 8 in speaking in IELTS. To take things forward, I learnt about this shadowing technique from YouTube’s Emma’s channel and from someone on HackerNews. The bottom line of the shadow technique is, pick up a favorite show - and speak along with whatever the character says, do this for all episodes, and finish the series. One person on HN said that in order to perfect his Mandarin, he shadowed on Chinese TV series for 9 years straight.
In addition to this, I also record myself and speak on some random topic daily for 2 min(Topic is mostly from IELTS speaking tests). Go through the recording. Spot pronunciation / intonation/ articulation mistakes. Take one more go at the same topic. And see if there’s improvement.
Do you have any other ideas apart from these in your mind which can help me with improving my speech?
I am also planning to gobble up all books related to languages written by Steven Pinker.
Ah, that explains why I had a complaint from the wife that she wasn't getting new Archers episodes.
(The Archers is a long running (since 1951!) BBC Radio 4 soap opera about a fictional farming community. There are a lot of people addicted to this, including the wife.)
I had to avert this disaster as a wife with no Archers isn't worth contemplating, so I installed the BBC sounds app instead. It was my thought that the BBC pulled the content from google to get people using the BBC Sounds app instead.
The BBC Sounds app works, but it is a pretty terrible podcast app (2.2/5 stars on the Google Play store), it doesn't download and queue things, or let you order them etc.