(A) English is more important than any other colonial languages because English as a language has a cross-cultural spread. English is also widely used in other colonial languages like French, Spanish, Portuguese. It even has a wider use than some of the languages associated with international non-western religious traditions like Arabic or Sanskrit. English is also used at all levels of society i.e
in local English, language newspapers and broadcasting, in public administration, in university education, in major industries, in the courts and the civil services. Its global stature is backed up by massive English-language training programmes, an international business that in textbooks, language courses, video programmes and computerized instruction is worth hundreds of millions of pounds or dollars to the economies of the US and the UK.
(B) English is so important in India because India needs English to unify the country. Professor Lal, a champion of Indian English who runs a well-known writers’ workshop and claims that in simple numerical terms, in a country of 840 million, more Indians speak English and write English than in England itself. Even Malcolm Muggeridge said – ‘The last Englishman left will be an Indian’.
(C) The importance of the English language for the economies of the US and the UK is that its English-language training programmes, an international business that in textbooks, language courses, video programmes and computerized instruction is worth hundreds of millions of pounds or dollars to the economies of the US and the UK.
(D) The author consider English as an ideal British export product because this ideal British product, needing no workers and no work, no assembly lines and no assembly, no spare parts and very little servicing; it is used for the most intimate and the most public services everywhere Indeed with nearly 200 languages.
(E) [Para 1] (i) Meaning of tradition is 'customs'
(F) [Para 2] (ii) Meaning of word reliable is
'dependable'
(G) [Para 3] (iii) Meaning of word opportunities is 'offers'
(H) [Para 4] (iv) Meaning of word improve is 'upgrade'.
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