Language Education in India

Language education in our country is growing beyond its own borders as many people from Brazil, Colombia, Korea, Japan and even European countries prefer to learn English or Hindi from teachers in India.

This is apparently because of the fact that English teaching in India is perceived to be of much better quality and cost effective than in other countries.

Hindi on the other hand is obviously our native language and we have several foreigners wanting to learn Hindi from native speakers while they are here on business or any other form of long stay.

This trend is clearly reflected by the increasing number of students of foreign origin in universities like JNU and DU as well as in private institutions like the Academy of Applied Languages – a Foreign Language institute headquartered in Gurgaon.

The demand for other languages like Spanish, German and French is also growing at a fast pace with many Indians wanting to learn languages and interact with foreign clients, colleagues or peers. This is a relatively untapped market in India where our options are restricted to the institutes run by foreign embassies like the Alliance Francaise for French or Goethe Institut for German. For the first time in India, private institutes like the Academy of Applied Languages are venturing into this domain by offering Language courses for individuals and corporates aligned to international standards and following standard European guidelines.

English in India

At the grass root level, English is looked upon as the language for upwards socio- economic mobility. This includes rural and urban population. Out of school English tutorials have mushroomed across the length and breath of India.

However the quality of faculty and content remains extremely substandard in these institutes. Therefore a perfectly legitimate market need for quality language education remains under provided, under fulfilled and deprived.

This, ladies and gentlemen is our raison d’etre. We remain always on the look out for funky ideas and suggestions from friends, so please feel free.

Okhil Babu’s letter to the Railways (early 1900′s – Imagine a Bangla accent)

“I am arrive by passenger train Ahmedpur station and my belly is too much swelling with jackfruit. I am therefore went to privy. Just I doing the nuisance that guard making whistle blow for train to go off and I am running with ‘lotah’ in one hand and ‘dhoti’ in the next when I am fall over and expose all my shocking to man and female women on plateform. I am got leaved at Ahmedpur station. This too much bad, if passenger go to make dung that dam guard not wait train five minutes for him. I am therefore pray your honour to make big fine on that guard for public sake. Otherwise I am making big report to papers.”

Okhil Chandra Sen wrote this letter to the Sahibganj divisional railway office in 1909. It is on display at the Rai lway Museum in New Delhi. It was also reproduced under
the caption “Travellers’ Tales” in the Far Eastern Economic Review. Any guesses why this letter is of historic value?

It led to the introduction of TOILETS in trains!!!!!!!!!

Get Out of your league

You were not born for smallness. Your life did not come with a pre-set ceiling of success. Sometimes people fall into and stay in a certain league. Going beyond the wins of yesterday doesn’t seem possible. Going beyond previous levels of achievements doesn’t occur to them. Get out of your league. No one is keeping you there. Go beyond yourself. Your habits. Your standards. Challenge your limiting beliefs. Challenge your personal status quo. Find a way to do more today than you did yesterday.

Leadership Quotes
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” – Picasso

“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.” – John F. Kennedy

Powerful Leadership Tactics
Tactic #1 Comic Relief. It’s serious business
A study conducted at Canadian financial institutions reported that top performing organizations had managers who employed humor. Harvard Business Review featured an article called “Transforming A Conservative Company – One Laugh at a Time,” by Katherine Hudson, the president and CEO of Brady Corporation. The article describes how Brady “has made fun an integral part of its corporate culture, not as an end in itself, but for serious business reasons.” Scientific research shows that laughter increases productivity, those who laugh out loud are more creative at problem solving, and those who laugh are healthier and miss work less often.

Consider your work culture. Would you say serious business is balanced with light heartedness and fun? Is laughter a part of progress? What can you do to lighten and liven things up? Seriously.

“Be what losers call a loser.”

Think about that for a minute or two… Sort of turns the whole idea of ‘cool’ upside down.

Hindi Lessons at the Academy of Applied Languages

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Revise and Practice your French

The Academy of Applied Languages follows a teacher driven model which is the best way to get initiated into a language. However all language learners also often struggle with the need to revise regularly and look for free internet resources, videos and podcasts which will help them to learn and practice what they learn in the Academy.

However the internet is an ocean and often we find much more than we can digest, not knowing what is good and what isn’t. Don’t you wish somebody would filter that and give you a credible option? Well here we have trawled the net and found 1 good link that I am attaching here for our French learners. I hope you find it useful Click here