I love English! :)

Well as I have mentioned in my previous posts that I am fond of writing (scribbling or articles), in this time I would want to mention about English.

Yes, I love English! I have been in love with it for years now. I remember one of the lines I read in one of R.K. Narayan’s works as I start to write this, “English is my mother tongue, even though my mother doesn’t know a word of it...” I love Hollywood movies of any genres but most I prefer are movies that inspired from true stories. Some of my favourites from what I have watched are, The Lady, King’s Speech, Freedom Writers, The Book Thief and many others. But, I tell you I love watching movies with subtitles. I love watching movies with subtitles because, I love speaking along with the characters in the movies, the tone, intonation, accent and everything of the way they speak.

Anyone can be witty or intelligent! I love witty and intelligent people but only if they speak just too well in English. When I say well speakers here, I don’t mean people who use bombastic words or words that are so...... hard to understand it is! It’s good that people have good vocabulary. One should have it also. But the type of person I like when it comes to English, someone who speaks so well, uses simple words and knows which word to use where and when. A person who speaks English so fluent with whatever he wants to that is behind his mind with ease is someone I adore, someone I want to be. Yes! Just like the way we go on and on with our own local dialects.

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Recently, Namgay Zam, a well known reporter from Bhutan just inspired me with this that she commented on ACCENT. I have met a lot of people who would tell you, “You speak so artificial, be normal” when you would want to try catching up an accent like an American or a British. What she said was truly inspiring and just got nailed deep in my heart. This is what I could partially remember what she said, “English is not our language. The best is to speak like the way they do, who owns it. It’s okay to have an accent because it’s the way it is spoken. But Dzongkha is our language and we can’t change the way it is spoken.” So well did she say this and in a very soothing and convincing manner and I strongly support her.

A pretty girl or a so good looking guy with a not-so-good English, really badly turns me off. I remember a pretty girl I know. I tell you she really is a Helen of Troy, a great feast to one’s eye. Beauty can be well described seeing the way she looks but the way she speaks, Oh-My-God! It’s just like getting depressed seeing your favourite sportsperson or personality seeing not knowing English on TV.

The witty lines, idioms and romantic apt lines in apt situations of a movie or a novel, drives me crazy as well. I mark it in my mind to having it used someday when such situations pop in to my daily life but, I forget it.

I still dream to speak so good, so intelligent, simple and with a class. But, I wonder when and I won’t give up on it either. I tell you, If I really had a British accent, I’d never Shut up! :D