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From: Shahryar
Date: Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 7:13 PM
Subject: India English growth 'too slow'
To: Rajeev Srinivasan
From: Shahryar
Date: Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 7:13 PM
Subject: India English growth 'too slow'
To: Rajeev Srinivasan
India English growth 'too slow' India is falling behind countries such as China in its attempts to increase the use of English among its population, a new report says. The study by the British Council says a "huge shortage" of teachers and quality institutions is hampering India despite a growing demand for English skills. The study says China may now have more people who speak English than India. ... deleted |
6 comments:
10 years before the IT sector gets fully f@#$d then. The Chinese will have an entire generation up and ready to compete.
Good for India. English turned us into a nation of imitators.
The brutish made sure during their reign that mother of all indian languages, Sanskrit is perennially bed-ridden, choked to near death by them and their ideological progenies.
Now they want faster spread of their english language in India.
Nice carrot that china will overtake india.
Are there still any takers for this type of crap dished out by that handmaiden of imperialist west- the bbc ?
Those who think that the tech industry is about speaking English have no idea what it is about. If that is all it takes to be an engineer, the Macaulayites who speak with a fake British accent would have dominated the field.
Chinese WHO DO NOT SPEAK proper English are already present in large numbers in the tech industry in USA. English has nothing to do with it. Besides, I doubt if Chinese will be able to speak great English even after all money that has been invested.
This is a great opportunity to revive Sanskrit as the national language which will ensure that we don't have parochialism. I am sure this will be acceptable to all linguistic groups in India as all Indian languages have roots in Sanskrit.
http://sowingseedsofthought.blogspot.com/
Well...we could get all jingoistic or be realistic about what the current state of our own IT sector is. Fact is that we're still mostly about outsourcing and soon the Chinese will compete with us. I do not doubt the prowess of our engineers at all but I wish we are able to do some path breaking work in India which we have not done so far. So yes, our USP in the IT sector is still that we know english and not much more.
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