I have been observing the current trend where most people are having the belief that being able to speak in English doesn’t define your talent or skills. And I am totally in favour of that. But where everyone goes wrong is in the fact that this notion is preventing people from learning English.
There are people who take it as a sense of pride for avoiding English and speaking in their mother tongue. Especially in India, if you are walking on the streets and speaking in English with someone, you will be called a ‘show-off’, just because you are speaking a foreign language.
I don’t understand why people can’t treat English as just a language, just a medium of communication.
Let me give you a practical example of this. Just go out into your locality and pretend you are talking over the phone in English. You will see people giving you weird looks as if you are trying to act cool in the public. And this will happen!
I mean, if you can talk in your mother tongue and also in Hindi, everyone is okay with that. But the moment you switch to English, you are weird!
And what is most heartening to see is people holding high positions in the society have minimal knowledge about speaking in English and they don’t even try to improve. I have seen many of my professors who will give lectures in completely wrong English, year after year, and they have no intention of improving it.
All I want to convey is that learn English. It will not only help you grow a new skill, but will help you to communicate with people all around the world. You don’t have to be literary expert, just know how to speak English correctly so that you have to face any difficulty just for not knowing a language that is prevalent all over the world.
English won’t define your abilities, but it will surely define your hunger to improve.
Cheers!
The Verbal Explainer 