ENGLISH IS THE WORLDS IMPORTANT LANGUAGE : For as long as I can remember myself, I’ve been fascinated with the English language and all things related to it. ENGLISH and SUCCESS have become synonyms! I had my first encounter with English when I was around sixteen years old and came to Kolkatta in 1969 after passing my Pre degree from a reputed college in a remote village of Tamilnadu, and I haven’t stopped loving and learning the language ever since!` Surely, there were plenty of challenges along the way, and I’m not ashamed to admit that I didn’t actually achieve English fluency up until 35 years ago. I arrived in Delhi in 1978 from Kolkatta after my graduation and it took me five to eight years to figure out what exactly I’d been doing wrong all along in terms of my English improvement. Anyway, that hasn’t changed my love for the language and now I believe more strongly than ever that ENGLISH IS THE WORLD’S LANGUAGE – at least that’s how I feel about it, and here are some strong reasons why I think so: The simple fact of the matter is that any rock/pop/dance music act who wants to hit the charts overseas WILL sing in English! .As you are all aware, nowadays the global economy is more consolidated than ever, large corporations have established themselves all over the world in almost every country and all stock, commodity and currency markets are so closely tied up that even the tiniest changes in an important stock price will have a immediate effect on other prices worldwide. It is only common sense that in a situation like this a common language would be chosen to make the information flow as easy and effortless as possible, and whether you like it or not – English is the language serving this purpose! Millions of people say Indians or foreigners watch Hollywood films IN ENGLISH with help of subtitles (which inadvertently wires the language into peoples’ brain); I read plenty of renowned classics as well as loads of sci-fi literature. The amount of literature available in English as opposed to other languages, however, is MIND-BOGGLING! Its everyone’s view that it’s easy only for beginners; when you’re getting into your advanced English learning/improving stage you have to brace yourself for some pretty mind-bending/head-wracking English grammar stuff… But grammar is NEVER head-wracking if acquired through speech patterns. I personally feel that English is a relatively simple (despite of all the irregularities that are driving others nuts but I just laugh at it all because of its contextual learning ) language and I believe that this factor definitely contributes to its world-wide popularity. . But one thing please remember : Forget about hammering new words just on their own into your mind – the chances are, you won’t be able to use them as part of a fluent English speech. Your new approach has to involve memorizing any new English word you hear within context! I’m sure despite some other big languages might also possess these characteristics, the fact of the matter is that English has the largest vocabulary of all other languages on the planet.A lot of extinct and existing languages have contributed into the English language – starting with Latin and ending with French, so I guess it would be fair to say that the English language has taken the best from the Germanic (English, German, Dutch) and Romance (French, Italian, Spanish) language groups even from Indian languages which allows for very diverse means of expression.Basically in English you can say the same thing is twenty different ways depending on what vocabulary you use – there’s slang, there’s conversational English, there’s formal and there’s very formal language – while in other languages you’re more limited to what and how you can say this or that particular thing. English speaking countries are the most affluent regions on this planet, and the amount of people going abroad on overseas holidays have created the phenomenon of English being the common language people with different national backgrounds use to speak with each other as English being fairly simple is the unofficial world’s travel language. There are billions upon billions of websites on the Internet nowadays, and it’s estimated that more than half of the entire online material is published in English. Yes, I know, the number of non-English websites are growing at an alarming rate, but for the time being I’m just merely stating the OBVIOUS – the Internet speaks in English! English is the official language of the US and the former Commonwealth Countries – UK, Canada, Australia and others – and it’s also widely used across the European Union as the common language. US is still the mightiest country on the planet Earth, and no matter what you think about its impending financial apocalypse, imminent peak oil disasters or Illuminati conspiracy theories, it’s still the most powerful country and a technological, financial and military force to be reckoned with. Despite all that, foreigners from all over the word are trying to master English, and the amount of people trying to learn the language is growing astronomically for the simple reason that English has become somewhat like Math or Geography in any school curriculum. If you speak fluent English, your job opportunities are much better than those of your peers, and it’s inevitably leading to a certain social status being assigned to fluent English speakers......Visit KITS, Bangalore
Posted on: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 12:13:49 +0000
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