#2333 Author:  T.M.Sankaran Member Level: Gold Member Rank: 25 Date: 28/Feb/2011 Rating:  Points: 5 |
Knowledge in English or for that matter any other language than mother tongue will only help expanding your horizon of success.But it should not be at the expense of your mother tongue. Only mother tongue can help you understand things clearly and help reproducing it meaningfully.
When you write a sentence in English, first the idea comes to your mind through your mother tongue. Then in mind an exercise of translation of the matter into English takes place, before putting it in black and white. Thus mother tongue is most important.
For the purpose of access into other fields, connected with your job or study you may need to study English. When you study English make sure that the same is done effectively. Speaking in a foreign language may seem difficult in the beginning, but within no time you can overcome this, if you attempt it sincerely.
T.M.Sankaran
Gold Member, SPK
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#2354 Author:  Ramanathan A R Member Level: Diamond Member Rank: 8 Date: 28/Feb/2011 Rating: Points: 3 |
Knowledge of English is not critical for success. What is the meaning of success? Earning enough money? if it so, we can find traders who are not educated earning much more than highly educated salaried persons. If it is literary works we cane find many poets, story writers or many other subjects who know only Malayalam.
With Regards
Ramanathan A R
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#2724 Author:  Ranjith Member Level: Gold Member Rank: 31 Date: 25/Mar/2011 Rating: Points: 6 |
Knowledge of English is Needed for making a good job . we are always fluent with malayalam.Because malayalam is our mother tongue. we can live anywhere in kerala and lakshadeep with fluency in malayalam. Consider if we are in Bangalore or Nagaland. we have nothing to do with our language. Please consider ,here i am not to devalue our mother tongue. i want to understand that other than malayalam language give a little importance to english language from childhood.
To make a good career in any field we must know english. In some companies job criteria, there should be a word that 'English fluency is must'. These job criteria are found always in kerala companies.
Current situation in kerala is almost 78 percentages of parents are trying to Enter their childrens to English medium school from their primary level. This is because they know that importance of english in our future life.
We malayalis are trying to Speak in english but before speaking in english we are thinking in our mother tongue malayalam.Anf through ours thoughts we make sentense in english. so does not devalue our malayalam. we can improve our english only through malayalam thoghts.
With Regards
Ranjith
SPK(Spiderkerala).
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#2730 Author:  Gopal Singh Rawat Member Level: Gold Member Rank: 42 Date: 25/Mar/2011 Rating: Points: 2 |
Now a days we are developing us in every field. So we should have knowledge of English also.
Now a days if we want a good job then we have knowledge of English. If we are efficient in English then we can make a good career with the help of English.
From:
Gopal Singh Rawat
SPK(Spiderkerala).
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| #3843 Author: Makhzoodha Member Level: Bronze Member Rank: 71 Date: 03/May/2011 Rating: Points: 1 |
English is the Universal language.
We need to accept the truth that it is the most dominant language on earth.
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#3863 Author:  Lakshmi Ramdas Member Level: Gold Member Rank: 12 Date: 04/May/2011 Rating: Points: 5 |
Knowing the English language fluently is a must in today's world as English has been accepted as the Universal language. It is known as the lingua franca of the world. Lingua franca means a language which is systematically used to make communication possible between people who do not share the same mother tongue. It is obvious that most of the people who have different mother tongue's speak in English so that they can communicate. English is a must for people who wish to go abroad and work. For that matter, it is best if a person tries to learn some foreign languages too such as French and Spanish because these languages are also widely spoken around the world and it will help you to communicate to people who dont know English also. But all said, knowing one's own mother tongue is also very much necessary. Only if you know your mother tongue, it will help you to master other languages too as it'll form as a base of knowledge.
Another point in that while searching for a job, communication skills are very important. Interviewers check for these skills more than academic grades in the candidates. That is why in most of the placements during college times, you can see that the highest ranked person might get a job only in the end and the people with arrears also land up with a job sooner because they might be having better fluency in English.
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| #3878 Author: Ramanathan A R Member Level: Diamond Member Rank: 8 Date: 04/May/2011 Rating: Points: 4 |
English is necessary if we are to work in offices. It will help those who know it to some extent even if they are not in services to communicate with others who know English.
However, I do not feel it as essential to know English if our work does not involve in communication in English. I have come across several individuals who do not have any education in English doing business in other places where the language is different from theirs. Let us take the common examples of the labourers now available. They are mostly from North India who do not know any language except Hindi. They are able to manage with what they know.
Of course it is a good thing to know English or any other language even if we do not require to use it, as any knowledge is knowledge.
With Regards
Ramanathan A R
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| #3925 Author: P.Rajalekshmi Member Level: Silver Member Rank: 109 Date: 05/May/2011 Rating: Points: 4 |
The ability to speak any language is a good thing. The necessity of a language other than mother tongue is depends on some other factors. If you are staying in a place other than your native place you have to learn the language which is used in that place. The importance of learning English is that it is the universal language for communication.
The Bad habit found in Kerala is that they give importance to English and give less importance to Malayalam. Some of us are not using correct pronunciation or colloquial pronunciation when using Malayalam. Please don't follow the Ranjini Haridas and please don't kill Malayalam while learning English.
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