Have you ever been mocked or taunted for your English pronunciation, accent, or spelling? Often, people mistake the English language to be a marker of intelligence, but that is far from the truth. For instance, previously, people online shared their insecurities of not speaking in English and how it didn’t stop them in life. In another instance, when a man asked a journalist to work on her English pronunciation, she responded with humility and won hearts.
Now, desis are discussing how they studied from non-English-medium schools and succeeded in life anyway. Many shared their personal stories of achievements:
Coming from a govt school in a small town, I learnt English pretty late. Have done well in my professional and personal life so far. Better than many wokes who are busy judging people on their English language skills.
— Arun Bothra 🇮🇳 (@arunbothra) July 8, 2021
I can relate to this, Sir ji. Growing up in rural Bengal, non-English schooling and college, I learned basic English communication using a Reader’s Digest Guide to Spoken English & self-conversing in mirror.
At 23, I graduated from a US College. Happy with the journey so far.
— Sangeet Kothari (@SangeetKothari) July 8, 2021
Likewise my schooling was in vernacular. It was only the informal learning and listening and rubbing shoulders with my baba’s theatre walas and literary folks and later the Indian Army that sharpened my English. Not done bad either😊
— Medha Oka🇮🇳 (@medhaoka) July 8, 2021
I had to meet IAS bureaucrats after doing https://t.co/q0aD6QbhpI (IITD) in connection with a enterprenurial project. English speaking was quite deficient, Zero compared to the bureaucrats,
I decide to use high flown Hindi words to make them acknowledge me .— Sushil Kumar (@SushilGsl) July 8, 2021
My primary education was in a Panchayat School. Telugu medium upto Engineering. Didn’t find any difficulty in my job across India. Infact Telugu Medium in 11 th and 12 th helped in strengthening my fundamentals in Science and Mathematics
— Srinivas Bhavaraju (@BHAVARAJUSR) July 8, 2021
My father failed in English in 10th as he ws from a Telugu medium school. He’s a btech, MTech from iit Kharagpur, doctorate in engineering from imperial college of science and technology, London 😊
— Rajeshwari 🇮🇳 (@wordsandviews) July 8, 2021
My school was a Punjabi medium govt school, college a Punjabi medium govt college, yet cleared many competitions where only 2 or 3 candidates passed out of 100s or 1000 candidates
— Anju Juneja🇮🇳 (@junejamkanju) July 8, 2021
Others talked about why people should not judge others solely based on their English speaking skills:
Sir I studied in gujarati medium, english language came from std 5th.
Don’t judge people by his english 🙂 it is just a language, not knowledge 🙏— Darshan N. Popat 🇮🇳 (@DarshanNPopat) July 8, 2021
I agree ,it’s the colonial hangover
— Juhie Singh (@juhiesingh) July 8, 2021
My English teacher often proudly pronounced in front the whole class that since I can’t speak or understand English, I will never amount to anything in life.
I think I turned out all right.
Linguistic skills are tools of communication not indicators of one’s intellect.
— Ms. Kaur (@quietframe) July 8, 2021
Never could understand the logic. Only part English should play is being a bridge language between people coming different language regions. If they are able to communicate with each other with few broken words that should be well enough
— Shamendra Bhadauria 🇮🇳 (@ShamendraSingh) July 8, 2021
Sahi kaha, some people in India think that English is everything in the world.
English should be just a language not the medium.
— Exploring Life (@Babanomics) July 8, 2021
Better to let language be a mode of communication rather than making it a “woke” compulsity and adding it to the quotient of emotion.
Unfortunately latter is more dominant in our society.
— Munish Singh🇮🇳 (@iammunishsingh) July 8, 2021
Let’s discard our prejudices against others and let our insecurities vanish in the air when it comes to our English-speaking skills! What do you think? Tell us in the comments section.
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