Another essay :)

It was a bigger effort for me to write this essay. I think because it wasn't really the most interesting subject

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Title:THE ROLE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN INDIA AND POLAND


It seems like the English language in India has finally won the race for the official language of the land. It is far more popular than Hindi, mainly due to the English colonization since 1833 up till 1950. Not only does it has a status of the assistant language, English in fact is the most important language in India. In Poland, however, situation is much different. During the cold war, being under soviets control, vast majority of Poles attended to Russian lessons. This changed diametrically after year 1989. Since then English became more popular than other second languages. Both countries deal with and react on English language in a specific, various manner.

English as a language has a high society position in India. It is a symbol of higher intellect, better education and culture. Indian English had established itself as an audibly distinct dialect with its own quirks and specific phrases like currey and sari. Up till 1990’s in the movie theaters across India all movies were played in original English versions. English-language daily newspapers have a circulation of 3.1 million copies per day. It is normal for Indians to abruptly change into English in the middle of an conversation. In Poland however, it is still hard to find people with fluent knowledge of English and certainly there are no movies theaters providing English dubbing. You might find Times in original version, or Newsweek International, unfortunately only in big cities like Warsaw or Gdansk.

The British, during their colonization of India, established universities in India based on British model with emphasis on English. Later on, the British Christian missionaries established their own public schools with English as first language. In the 1970’s and 1980’s one third of Indian schools had English as instruction language. All this obligated Indians to have good knowledge of English when thinking about study. For most of the students nowadays English is their first language, it is easier for them to communicate in English than in their mother tongue. English became the first language in Indian education. In contrast, polish education is based on their own native language. English language plays a role of second, sometimes even third, language. Apart of talking with foreign tourists or speaking during language lessons nobody speaks English freely.

In India, English is very important medium in legal, financial and business systems while in Poland still the native language is far more important than English. More open use of English in Poland grows slowly due to international economy. More international companies, organizations are looking for contacts in Poland. In result, more people are interested in learning this language since it can help them to achieve a big step forward in their carrier. The role of English in professional carriers in those two countries is different. In India English is a must be. However, in Poland it is still just an luxury option.

English in India continues to be a very prestige language. Carriers in business, commerce, politics and science require a fluent knowledge of this language. The future of English in Poland, however, is not so clear. English becomes very popular language due to economical, political and educational efforts. However, the number of trained staff, students, people using this language is still remarkably low. The Poles are very proud of their own language and are not so eager to learn foreign ones and most of the elderly people don not think even about second language.

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