Why is she looking at me as if she is proud of me, and he looks on the contrary, where do the pictures in Polish textbooks come from?
Why is she looking at me as if she is proud of me, and he looks on the contrary, where do the pictures in Polish textbooks come from?
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The pictures come from the early 90s
Express Publishing is a British company.
This guy looks like he is trying to hide his inner existential pain.
Her name is Virginia, and the dude’s name is Evans. It’s written on the cover.
For me it looks more as if both of them were plotting to murder you in the least expected way.
Or they were held hostage while creating the book.
From the same stock photo that provides these pictures internationally, filed under the category: people on the verge of a psychotic break when they open a X language book.
Why there are names of different diseases in the background? Measles and infectious mononucleosis to name two
Is this how neurotypicals read emotions? /s
As an autistic, I always had such a problem with school textbooks that the characters from the covers always looked at me like that and I was uncomfortable.
She’s thinking “this picture for the textbook will be the starting point of my modelling career”
He’s thinking “why on earth have I ever agreed to this bullshit, they’re not even paying me”
And that’s not even a Polish textbook.
But indeed, textbooks used in foreign language classes are famous for their cheesy, dull content, and learning languages at schools was no fun at all, just an unpleasant duty. Something definitely needs to change – and not only in Poland.