I Am GLAD That President Trump Has Made English THE Official Language Of The U.S. of A. Hoorah!

 

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I am thankful, more often than you would realize, that we are NOT all talking bloody German!

English is the only language I now speak though I can still understand a smattering of Sinhalese. That is the IRONY of me being SO, SO PRO ENGLISH.

English was NOT my mother tongue when I was a child. It was Sinhalese.

    Your mother tongue is the LANGUAGE you DREAM IN.    

Did YOU know that?

I, very young, was MADE to speak English alongside Sinhalese. Ours was a bilingual household -- though my (adoptive) mother spoke mainly in English, while my grandmother, who actually brought me up, only spoke Sinhalese (though she understood English). In our house Sinhalese & English was spoken interchangeably -- sometimes in the same sentence.

At three, being the precocious bugger that I was, I could read in both Sinhalese & English.

When I went to school the medium of education was Sinhalese -- with daily English classes. My parents sent me to weekly English elocution classes.

I have a British 'Advanced Level' (A-level) grade, from the 'University of London', of an 'A'. That was in 1971.

Within 3 years of that, since I was no living with anyone who spoke Sinhalese, the language I dreamt in changed. Took me months to understand why I was restless in my sleep. Then I slowly dawned on me. I was not dreaming in Sinhalese. That bothered me.

More than 50 years later I am as ENGLISH as they come.

       I LOVE ENGLISH.    

I wish I could speak & write it better.

As far as I am concerned the whole world should speak English.

So, I am DELIGHTED.

English ALL the WAY!

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