Advice Needed

[Emaaan]

Aslamo Alikam

I need your advice regarding ACCA study. I passed my FA exam in 2000 and then I took admission in CAT course. I passed my CAT exam in first attempt and now I would like to go for ACCA or CA. But I got one problem, I studied in Urdu medium school and my English is not very good. In my FA (subjects statistics, mathematics and economics) I secured 712 marks out of 1100 and I failed in my English paper but due to the high marks they didn’t fail me in English but they put some stars. I am trying to improve my English by reading the English newspapers and listening English news etc.

As I have mentioned that I want to go for ACCA, in ACCA your English should be excellent caz your whole course is in English. Here I am confused and I don’t know what should I do. Many of my friends who are studying in ACCA told me that when you will start ur course, your English would improve automatically. But I am not satisfied.

Can anyone please advice me that what should I do... and how I can improve my English (i cant attend English course caz I don’t have enough time to attend the English course). Should I go for ACCA course?

By reading this message you can guess how bad I am in English.

[jbladeus]

Hi emaaan

To me, mashallah your english seems to be perfectly alright. In my opinion, one doesnt need to have a masters in english to get one's message across, especially in this day and age of internet and SMS messaging, emphasis has moved from writing a message eloquently to just sending it to the relevant person in quick time and in such a way that he can understand the contents of that message.

My advice to you is just to feel confident in whatever u say and write. Flush this inferiority complex about english down the drain. Waisey bhi, urdu is our mother tongue and thats the language in which we should try to improve our reading and writing skills rather than worry too much about a secondary language. Have u ever seen an italian trying his hand at english? <img src=icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle> I never could understand an what they are trying to say. The only way i can make out what they are tryng to say is by their exaggerated hand movements!! <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

On the other hand, to be successful in business world, one has to have some knowledge of business composition and legal writing. I would say that it would automatically improve when u will start reading business letters, reports and laws. So don't worry about this too much and go ahead with ACCA.

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[Omar Salah Ahmed]

Assalamalaikum Emaan
I agree with Guybrush. Your english seems to be perfectly fine. You should not get discouraged and in fact I say go on and start your ACCA, at times u might have some difficulty in english, for that keep a good english dictionary with you. Thats it nothing else just practice it and inshALLAH you will improve and be very successful. Best of Luck!

OSA

[Sarfaraz]

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Hi emaaan

To me, mashallah your english seems to be perfectly alright. In my opinion, one doesnt need to have a masters in english to get one's message across, especially in this day and age of internet and SMS messaging, emphasis has moved from writing a message eloquently to just sending it to the relevant person in quick time and in such a way that he can understand the contents of that message.

My advice to you is just to feel confident in whatever u say and write. Flush this inferiority complex about english down the drain. Waisey bhi, urdu is our mother tongue and thats the language in which we should try to improve our reading and writing skills rather than worry too much about a secondary language. Have u ever seen an italian trying his hand at english? <img src=icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle> I never could understand an what they are trying to say. The only way i can make out what they are tryng to say is by their exaggerated hand movements!! <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

On the other hand, to be successful in business world, one has to have some knowledge of business composition and legal writing. I would say that it would automatically improve when u will start reading business letters, reports and laws. So don't worry about this too much and go ahead with ACCA.

________________________
Arrrgh... it sure's gonna be mighty rough sailin' today ... mates!
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Aslam u alaikum
Emaan you can write english better than me and you should go for CA.
Reason is that i don't speak english and even don't like english but i have passed two modules of CA without knowing so much english.
Infact in CA ur concepts are tested not ur language except in paper of Functional English and BCBS.
so go for CA and
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[webmoxter]

I think mr. sarfraz is right u should go for CA

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[Alterego]

Walaikum-Asalam

Everyone is right in saying that your English is not of such a standard where you might face difficulties in ACCA. As you have mentioned here that you Mashallah cleared CAT exams in first attempt, you should have realized that CAT papers were all in that same language, and to tell you the insight, Part 2 papers of ACCA shows similarity to what you have studied in CAT level C.

By reading your Messege I can guess how bad your English is really !
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saar

[Emaaan]

thanks all of you for ur replys and honest advices.

[Emaaan]

thanks all of you for ur replys and honest advices.