I grew up in a village and did my schooling there. I went to the government school and read in Nepalese medium. We had only one subject taught in English. I still remember, I used to use Nepalese-English dictionary to write an essay about cow and it used to take me about 2 hour to write 100 words. I came to the city and joined college where I had to read all subjects on English. I flunked first two semester solely because of the English medium and then two more because of the frustration. And finally passed last two with average marks. Language played very important role in my junior college years.
Its been 6 years I left my village and ever since then I’d been trying to improve my English. I forced myself everywhere to use English even in the places where I could write in Nepalese. I even wrote my diaries in English to which I laughed a lot when I read a year later.
I wrote at least a thousand blog posts till the date. And currently I’m working as a Internet Marketer where my job involves write sales emails and sales web pages.Still, my English is far from good. I have learnt new things about this English every single day since last 6 years at least, still my boss thinks that there’s lack of ‘flow’ in my writing.
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My girlfriend is a teacher. In a government school. She was (still is) a English major but I can bet that I can speak better English. Now, she is teaching students in English medium.
I believe she is very smart still her English is not that good. Teacher with worse English skills are teaching students in English medium. I mean, common, why do you need to teach in English while you have all the textbooks in your own language? Why do you have to read in English while Microsoft is releasing windows in your own language? How good will your students learn English when your teachers can barely pronounce ‘asia’ correctly? Schools in Japan and China are not teaching in English in school, are they?
