LET’S BUSINESS IN ENGLISH.
Saturday, 10th May, 2008
He is son of a factory worker whose father worked to give his son the education that he didn’t get. The son graduated as an engineer and took off for Bangalore to get a job. He had a living money for six month which he got from his father. He didn’t get a job for six month, not because he didn’t knew what he was talking about but because his English was not so good so he was not able to communicate who he was, what he knew, how hungry he was to learn and how hard he could work.
He got hired as a trainee. This workplace exposure helped him to work on his communication and confidence and after nine month he was able to infiltrate into Infosys. It is unfortunate to learn that most of the students from the non English medium educated students do not complete their story the same way.English is the language to look outside. It is the language of the business. Even in India. Since English or say language is an emotional subject, so one should stick to the facts that too basic. Just as the adoption of standards like windows, railway gauges, and internet protocol leads to greater inter-operability and usage. English has integrated our diversity. Particularly in the business. With 22 languages mentioned in the constitution of the country, English is used in most of the official and interstate correspondence.
English has also become a bane. Languages captures the ethos, dreams and experiences of a culture, but tragically, of the 7000 languages spoken in the world today one of them dies every week. Drivers of these deaths are many but experts view that it is the global adoption of the English language as one of the major factors.English is a vocational skill. It is the language of interviews, expense reports, performance appraisals and the software used to document them. It also is the foundation of many service job soft skills in a country where manufacturing is only 11% of jobs. Most candidates without fluent English feel handicapped for no fault of theirs.

