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journey: english

  One day, about one or twice month ago I saw a sentence written by anonymous in twitter. It went this way : “Funny how many still believe Good English = Using big words. Our education system teaches 'make sentences with' and not 'explain simply'” I was like wow.. what is this ? I also think the same. And I also escaped blaming the education system like the above statement writer did. Until that day I always emphasized on the big words and complex sentences. I tried leasrning  synonyms of common words and practicing in a day to day basis. Whenever I listened to people in Television and read the articles in social media, I envied their English. I still agree, to some extent, I was right. But the path I chose to go was absolutely wrong. Directly leaping without prior preparation might give one big leap but, small compared to others who come after making their base strong. Yes, I read in a English medium school right from the beginning  plus we had compulsion to speak in