[cyclotic]

An Indian friend of mine recently married an Indian girl. At the wedding, virtually everyone from India was strongly fluent in English. Plus they played a video of friends and family from her hometown sharing their congratulations. Only one required translation.

She came to the US for the first time ever a week prior to the wedding. Her English is stellar.

[zerosix]

The same must be true in Pakistan, at least in the few non-Muslin or “moderate Muslin” (yes, I know you define a “moderate Muslin” as someone who has run out of bullets or whose gun jammed) families.

My friend’s son married a Pakistan young woman whose family are all Baptist and only the parents are not very fluent in English!

The couple (he’s American) live in the U.S. currently but she is college educated and soon hopes to apply for permission to work here, though she’d never been out of Pakistan until her marriage

[Fungi]

I have dinner out once a week on Saturday at a local Mexican restaurant. I take a corner seat, quietly listening to everything around me. The waiters and bartenders are fluent in English; it is the patrons I am worried about. These brain dead yuppies use the word “like” every third word in a conversation. Drives me nuts as they are illiterate in their own language.

[BobL]

“An Indian friend of mine recently married an Indian girl. At the wedding, virtually everyone from India was strongly fluent in English. “

A close friend of mine recently went there, and virtually everyone he came in contact with could speak English. Most of those, in fact, are very good at English, but their accent couple with the British version, coupled with the ability to speak it fast, still makes it tough for Americans.

India has a very long way to go, but having English as an official language there is certainly helping them.