Knowledge of English

 

                                          The Sri Lankan student is likely to derive more advantage from the knowledge pf English than from the knowledge  of any other language. In the first place, thereby gains access to the literature. The advantage of being able to read in original poetry of Milton and Shakespeare, the novels of Scoft, and the philosophy of Mill, Darwin and Herbert Spencer, is incalculable👇👇.

                           English language is the key to the latest scientific discoveries of the two most advanced nations of the  modern world. Every newly found marvel of science, even if originally discovered on the European continent, is sure to be published with little delayin the pages of English and American works.

          

            For the traveller and the man of  business, no language is more useful than English, which is the mother-tongue of about a hundred million people , and is acquired for  commercial and literary purpose by an immense number of foreigners. Indeed, the English  language is known so widely over the surface of the globe, and is being spread so rapidly year by year, that it bids fair to become in the course of time a kind of universal language known and spoken all over the world.

           As Sri Lankan is part of the British Commonwealth of Nations, English is of unique importance in the country. So , it's clear that, the knowledge of English is essential for one and all in commercial offices and for those who engage in trade on their own account😃.