Training in Spoken English

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.