Thursday, July 29, 2004
Learning English

I was speaking to a friend of mine who is keen to make an English language learning website (on a non-commercial basis) for non-English speakers in India. Any suggestions of (a) sites that exist (b) software / learning programs / books that make it easy for learning English?

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hi rajesh !

i came across this spoken english course from adult faculties council in cochin
i found it good for learning spoken english and becoming fluent

according to the institute the syllabic nature of english makes it different from indian languages in its flow and therefore the difficuly in speaking it for indians in general

thanks

Posted by: manish on July 29, 2004 11:21 AM

Tata's have a worty initiative on Literacy (www.tataliteracy.com). I think their focus is only on Indian languages though - but may be working on English as well. These people were kind enough to show a demo after an email request. May be worthwhile to get in touch with them. TCS CEO, Mr Ramadorai's wife leads it.

NIIT may also be onto something here.

Also recall an NGO member mentioning that some illiterate people in Chittoor (AP) were taught english that they could do low-end BPO work already!

Posted by: yuvaraj on July 29, 2004 11:47 AM

Great site to learn English - here.

Posted by: anu on July 29, 2004 05:33 PM

"...a friend of mine... is keen to make an English language learning website... for non-English speakers in India."

Does your friend have any specific objectives yet, such as grammar instruction, vocabulary assets, idiomatic information, technical language, cultural differences in communication, understanding regional colloquialisms, accent reduction, or...? If there's a specific angle they're interested in then that could help focus the search.

(Me, I'm in the opposite situation... I'm studying Hindi, but the available resources seem to be fewer than for other languages because so many Indians are already so skilled in English...! 8)

Posted by: John Dowdell on July 30, 2004 02:37 AM

I still remember Kapil Dev's adversiting the 'Rapidex English Speaking course' on Doordarshan? Is it still alive?

Posted by: Anand Jain on July 30, 2004 03:11 AM

i have to lern engish

Posted by: sagar on August 23, 2004 01:14 PM

i want lern good english

by
sagar

Posted by: sagar on August 23, 2004 01:16 PM

Dear Sir,

I want to learn spoken english.

Thanks,

P.K. Sudarsan

Posted by: P.K. Sudarsan on October 5, 2004 03:17 PM

sir i want learn english
ashok

Posted by: ashok singh bisht on January 1, 2005 04:44 AM

i want learning spoke english

Posted by: BASHA on January 23, 2005 10:37 PM

sir
this is srikar from andhra pradesh .i want learn english
thanks

Posted by: srikar on January 28, 2005 12:19 PM

Hi, I want to learn speakiang english. Do you advice me how could I came up.


Posted by: Ramesh Rao on November 10, 2006 03:02 PM
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