The Official School of Languages, Laredo

This is an excellent series of videos making it clear why phonetics and good pronunciation are important.

They are done in an amusing way!

This is the first one.

http://www.vimeo.com/7782905 

Here are links to the others, in order.

http://www.vimeo.com/8667043

http://www.vimeo.com/9853569

http://www.vimeo.com/12108163

http://www.vimeo.com/12198840
If you want to know a bit about Laredo here's the English entry in Wikipaedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laredo,_Cantabria