Importance of vocabulary------------
- It gives your child the ability to say what he or she means. By having several words at their disposal for describing an event or emotion, they can be explicit when sharing their ideas and opinions.
- It helps your child understand what other people are saying and what she/he is reading. Vocabulary is the foundation for comprehension. Unfamiliar words become holes in the text, preventing your child from completely understanding what he or she has just read.
- It bolsters their ability to grasp ideas and think more logically. The greater number of words your child has, the more he or she can interpret ideas from others, and express their own ideas.
- It boosts your child’s power of persuasion. Having a rich vocabulary will help your child communicate in a more engaging way. Relying on one or two words to describe an idea will be repetitive and not as persuasive, as relying on a vocabulary of 10-15 similarly descriptive terms.
- It helps your child make a good impression on others. How articulate your child is constitutes a big part of the impression she or he makes on others.
How to increase Vocabulary-------
- Keep a word journal
- Real Life English Daily Expressions
- Word of the Day
- TV Shows
- Reading
- Speaking to other English speakers
Benefits and respect of English speakers----
1. English communication increases income
Yes. All good jobs need good English communication skills. Business requires you to be able to talk to clients in English.
In a global market place, you can reach more customers if you can speak their language. You can source better and cheaper raw material if you can communicate with a supplier from a far off place who doesn’t know your language.
2. English skills get more respect
It is weird but true. We in India give more respect to those who speak in English. I don’t know the reason and I don’t like this but that’s not important.
What’s important is: a) speak good English to earn more respect, and, b) if you feel strongly about it, treat those with and without good English speaking skills with equal respect.
Judge people on their inner worth, not the language they speak. But, till the time everyone begins doing it, learn English so that you are not judged unfairly.
3. English gets you more knowledge
Whatever be the historical reasons but the truth is that the latest research in science, technology, humanities and almost everything today happens in English.
You can either learn English to share in that knowledge or refuse to do that and try to reinvent the wheel in your own language.
Former is better and it also gives you a chance to make that knowledge available in your own language.
4. English makes travel easier
English is the most widely spoken language all over the world. If you know the language, you have an open window to most of the countries in the world. That’s a big advantage unless your goal in life is to remain within 40 kilometers of where you were born throughout your life.
5. Biggest movies and books are in English
Hollywood is the biggest movie industry. Almost all prominent books in the world are either written or translated into English. English language music is huge.
Why would you want to miss out on such a huge body of fun and mind expanding stuff?
6. Knowledge of English helps make friends
Yes. People not from your state, people not from your country, people not from your continent.
There are so many wonderful people in the world. Wouldn’t it be cool if you can communicate with them and see which ones can be good friends, which ones are fine as just acquaintances and which ones you should run away from?
And, just between you and me, it can help you get dates as well as girls (or boys) may just like someone who is from a different place but can communicate with them.
7. English communication gives power & influence
Knowledge is in English, knowledge is power and you need power to fight for yourself. Most of the modern day knowledge and communication tools work in English:
- Courts, law books, websites – most of them work in English.
- Social media works in English.
- Mainstream media has a majorly influential English segment.
If you don’t know the language, you are denying yourself more than half the weapons.
8. English helps the world know our culture
This is important.
The world today is not about forcing people, it’s about convincing them. It’s called soft power.
With our 5,000 year old culture, why should we be defensive and behave like frogs in a well?
Why not study the culture and present it in front of the world in the best possible way?
Didn’t Vivekanand do that? Didn’t he do it in English? Isn’t he one of the brightest torch bearers of our glorious culture?
9. English helps us innovate better
Our forefathers were great because they dreamt of new ideas, invented new things and broke new ground. They were rightly respected throughout the world.
We can either try to live off their name or create new ideas and new stuff ourselves – thus bringing glory to us and them.
To break new ground, you need to know where all people have reached and use that knowledge. You can’t do that by shutting yourself off.
10. English skills are our national advantage
Yes, and that’s no exaggeration.
One of the very few areas where India beats China is the number of English speaking people. Major advantage and we don’t want to surrender it to our friends from Shaolin.
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