English Obsession

The world is a global village & English has become the most dominant medium of interactions of its inhabitants.No one wants to be without it.Even the taxi-drivers & vegetable vendors here in Libya have expressed the desire of learning the language.Why not…… as everyone is aware of it….. I mean it’s importance.
Why English has become so important to everyone – there are loads of reasons to mention.But when I think little deeply about this I understand that it is just a language like any other language in the world, nevertheless if you know it you are considered special over others, this is the situation in India.
Personally to me knowing English is not a great thing, it’s not an achievement, it is not something great as it is been looked upon.I feel any fellow, even a rikshaw-puller, if given a proper training & context can learn it & use it in a systematic way.So we should stop glorifying English.But of course you cannot do away with it.One cannot afford to ignore English.Specially when your aims are high & you dream of having a good job in your own country or abroad.
It happened so last week, my colleague and I want to change our flat so we have been on the lookout for a new flat.In this connection we happened to meet one guy whom we already know.He is from our neighbouring country Bangladesh, working in a Libyan construction company as an accountant.He is quite a nice guy but we avoid to meet him always.The reason is not his nature, but his linguistic nature.He is very bad at English Language.Once he starts speaking it, he won’t stop.There is no comma, semi-colon or full stop in his speech.His one sentence is like one reading passage that I learned at school.The difficulty is that he doesn’t speak sensible.He uses strange words & different word-combinations which are completely new to English language.He is adding a lot of new words to English vocabulary.His speed of speaking out nonsense English is terrific.Ironically we have named him “ Fluent Bangladeshi “.Every Indian here know him by this title given by me.This man is obsessed with English & if anyone meets him he won’t leave the chance of using his linguistic talent.He will bombard his visitor with lots of English words.He speaks out words & it is for the listener to make a meaning out of what he says.So the listenr’s job is very strenuous.God save us & many like us from this fluent Bangladeshi.
There are many like him in India also that I have met.Many I have come across who use broken English.
Anyway the point is English allures everyone now a days, it is not a fashion but rather a necessity to learn it.