Visited Elixir Academy, Pune, where my daughter is a trainer. It provides training to anyone who wants it, in spoken English and Personality Development. The students were graduating, and some of them put up a delightfully impressive adaptation of the Oscar Wilde classic, "The importance of being Earnest". It was all the more impressive because a couple of months ago, the performers were struggling to speak English well.
It is amazing what the ability to speak correctly, and in front of an audience, can do to one's confidence. Those of us fortunate to have learnt this in school can probably never appreciate the difference it makes to someone who has been to a vernacular medium school. But this is indeed a great business, and serves a social and economic need.
If you can read and write, you can never get bored too, as you tend to find books to read almost anywhere, or at least newspapers and magazines, if not books. So it is a cure for all time. But if you can speak well too, it is icing on the cake, and opens the door to many career options as well.
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'Rosetta Stone' has made an entire business empire out of this.
I do feel language learning does more than that allowing for someone to enjoy a culture beyond their own with its own nuances.
Yes, that too.
Ah, how I wish I was there. It would have saved me reading up on the play, something I had been meaning to for a long time. Totally agree that there is much confidence to be gained by the art of speaking up, at some point, even in our native languages. English of course opens many doors - from jobs to romance.
on the romance front, palm reading is a good skill to have.
Palm reading skills coupled with zero communication helps hold the palm longer.
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