Englishophobia - TAPMI
I hail from a small town in Kerala. I did my initial phase of schooling i.e. till fourth standard in a local school and it was a malayalam medium school. Even though I learned to read, write and understand English, speaking was out of question. Then, I joined a reputed English medium school in my fifth standard. New uniform, new friends… I was more than excited to go to my new school. The first day of my fifth standard, my class teacher walks in to the class and announces that all students must speak only in English. All my happiness faded away the moment I heard this. A lot of new friends, but I can’t talk to them because I don’t know to speak in English. I started crying.



