Write a paragraph the importance of learning english in context of Bangladesh
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Right from the moment you step out of the Hazrat Shahjalal International airport in Dhaka, you notice that knowing Bangla is essential to your survival. You do manage to clear immigration, to exchange your currency and obtain sufficient Takas, even take a Bangladeshi SIM card for your mobile phone and book a cab on the Uber-app. So far so good! But then the problems multiply. You cannot converse with the cab driver, you cannot even read the number plate on the car because the numbers and alphabets are inscribed in Bengali, you cannot take the assistance of several friendly smiling locals who really do want to help out but can't with their limited knowledge of English. And all this in the centre of Bangladesh's proud capital!
All sign boards along the way are in Bangla, despite which with great difficulty you do manage to reach your hotel in the Gulshan-2 area, only to find friendly smiling Bangladeshis with whom you need to struggle to communicate. The doorman, the waiters, the concierge are very polite and friendly but you need to know Bangla to understand what they are trying to tell you!
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Right from the moment you step out of the Hazrat Shahjalal International airport in Dhaka, you notice that knowing Bangla is essential to your survival. You do manage to clear immigration, to exchange your currency and obtain sufficient Takas, even take a Bangladeshi SIM card for your mobile phone and book a cab on the Uber-app. So far so good! But then the problems multiply. You cannot converse with the cab driver, you cannot even read the number plate on the car because the numbers and alphabets are inscribed in Bengali, you cannot take the assistance of several friendly smiling locals who really do want to help out but can't with their limited knowledge of English. And all this in the centre of Bangladesh's proud capital!
All sign boards along the way are in Bangla, despite which with great difficulty you do manage to reach your hotel in the Gulshan-2 area, only to find friendly smiling Bangladeshis with whom you need to struggle to communicate. The doorman, the waiters, the concierge are very polite and friendly but you need to know Bangla to understand what they are trying to tell you!
Also when you go sight-seeing to the Suhrawardy Udyan and you want to know where the Pakistani Instrument of Surrender was signed, nobody can tell you that. Several information boards do exist, only all of them are in Bangla! The residents are very helpful, they even accompany you, but you cannot communicate with them for they speak only Bangla!
The whole world knows that language plays an extremely important role in the hearts and minds of Bangladeshis. It was the struggle for Bangla that gave rise to nascent Bangla nationalism from where arose the free nation of Bangladesh! Students had laid down their lives in civic unrest, spiralling violence, amidst death and destruction. Testimony to Bangladesh's struggle for independence is the national monument, the Shaheed Minar, that poignantly stands in the Dhaka University campus paying tribute to all those who made the supreme sacrifice for the language movement, which along with other factors led to the Liberation War, which concluded with the end of Pakistan in East Bengal.
But despite carrying such history why impose self-inflicted wounds? Learning the English language doesn't mean avoiding or disrespecting Bangla. It is universally acknowledged that English is the lingua franca of the world. English proficiency is the key to ensuring access to education, business and technology. In fact the more than 150 public and private universities in Bangladesh do use English as the medium of instruction at the tertiary level.
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