අපි අපේ විදිහට ඉංග්‍රීසි කතා කරමු Speaking English Our Way
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- අපි අපේ විදිහට ඉංග්‍රීසි කතා කරමු (Speaking English Our Way) by Mrs. Madubhashini Rathnayake, Former ELTU Head, Senior Lecturer, English Language and Teaching Unit
Website : www.sjp.ac.lk/n...
Created by University of Sri Jayewardenepura (www.sjp.ac.lk/)
සමාජෙ මුනගැහෙ දුර්ලභ උගත්කම පමණක් පෙරට නොගත් බුදධිමත් කාන්තාවක් මෙි වගෙ අය රටට වාසනාවන් .සුද්දෙකුගෙන් ඉංග්‍රීසි වචනයක් ඇහුවොත් ඒක ලස්සනට කියල දෙනව .තේරෙන්නෙ නැතිනම් අංග චලනයෙන්,උදාහරණ වලින්,බෞතික වස්තු පෙන්වා උපරිම මට්ටමින් කියල දෙනව.හිනා වෙන්නෙ,ගරහන්නෙ,නින්දා කරන්නෙ,අපහාස කරන්නෙ නෑ .ඔබ වගෙ ගුරුවරුන් තව තවත් බිහිවෙිව.
ඉතාම වටිනා කතිකාවක්....ඇසියයුතුම.....බොහොම නිසතමානි පිරුන වාසනාවන්ත කතක්....අපේ ලන්කාවෙ ඉන්ග්‍රීසි බාශාව චතුරව කතාකරන... ඉන්ග්‍රීසි කතාකරන්න උත්සාහකරන අයදෙස අපහාසෙන් උපහාසයෙන් බලන අයටත් බොහෝ වටිනා සාකච්චාවක්........තෙරුවන් සරණයි ! ❤️❤️🇱🇰❤️❤️🤗🌝
Dear Madubhashini - So lovely to hear you, as a student of your father who taught me Linguistic in late 60s and 70s. He formed my use of Sinhala language to date and the love to learn English.
I studied Sinhala, Economics at University. I came to England following my future husband, he was ashamed of me making mistakes and poor spelling. However, he was instrumental in developing my English.
I worked so hard to build my confidence and improve my English on the foundation of
"Wag Vivaharaya" learnt from my beloved teacher " Professor JB".
I had the pleasure of hosting him in the UK with Professor Luxman S Perera.
There were three generations teachers and students at that event. I was awarded for my teaching, for that, I pay gratitude to my great teachers in Sri Lanka.
I am still improving my English, even at retired age.
I couldn't agree with you more for practicing English without shame to improve.
Pushpa Kalubowila-Padmapreuma.
මම ස්කෝලෙ කතාවක් කලා එදා මට හූ නොකියපු එක විතරයි මම තිගැස්මකට ලක්වුනා සෙනගට ඉතින් මම ආයේ ස්කෝලෙන් අස් වෙන්න කලින් ආයෙ හොද කතාවක් කරලමයි අස්වෙන්නෙ🙌
නිවේදකයා වෙන වෙන කොහෙද දුවන්නේ ,,,,කියන දේ තේරෙන්නේ naa.....tnx ma'am
හරි වටිනා program එකක් , ඇය ඉතාමත් වටිනා අදහස් ප්‍රකාශ කරනවා .... ගොඩක් දේ ඇයගෙන් දැනගන්න තියෙනවා .....
very useful conversation.your words show us your intelligence and attitudes towards your students.very broad vision.hats off madam
Excellent ! When I was a teacher, I also made aware my pupils of how to overcome anglophobia. I learnt a lot more from your conversation. Thank you very much.
She is right. As a retired teacher I say you can develop your personality even by learning to have the correct posture the way to sit walk and talk politely in what ever language. As this lady said how to shake hands by looking at their eyes, how to use the folk and spoon in the correct way even if you don't use spoons to eat will build your overall confidence. The language learning will automatically improve with confidence with these small changes in your life. Start reading with children's books and go for the higher ones you can use internet for the correct pronunciation. They are some of my ideas to learn English and also build your confidence.
නිවේදකයා අයින් කරලා, වෙන කෙනෙක් දැම්ම නම් මේ වැඩසටහන මීට වඩා ලස්සන වෙන්න තිබුනා. Respect Madam 😍
නිවේදක මහත්මයත් මෙතුමිය හොදින් හදුනන නිසා කතාව ගොඩක් පොහොසත් වුනා කියලයි මට හිතෙන්නෙ. ගොඩක් නිහතමානී බුද්ධිමත් ලාංකික කාන්තාවක් මෙහෙම කතා ලාංකිකයන් විදියට අපිටත් ආඩම්බරයි. ඔබතුමියගේ සියලු වැඩකටයුතු සාර්ථක වේවා මහාචාර්යතුමියනි.
mechchara lassana kathabahak ai me niwedaka mahathmaya kanne
නිවේදක මහතා ගැන නොවේ මෙතුමිය කියන්න හදන දේ ඔලුවට ගන්න.මේ දෙපලම ඉංගීසි භාෂාවේ හසල දැනුමක් ඇත්තෝ වෙති.අපට ඒ දැනුම ගන්න නම් හීනමානය නැති කර ගන්න.අපේ කම රැකගෙන මේ විෂය ඉගෙන ගන්න.
වැදගත් සාකච්ඡාවක් මේ මනුස්සය මැද්දට පනිනවනෙ
As I feel this is a very priceless speech. I don't try to explain about presenter. But ma'am you are an amazing leady who was born in sri lanka. You are a gift that we have got.
Respect ma'am and proud of you.
කව්ද මේ බන්දුල? කියන කිසිම දෙයක් අහගෙන ඉන්නෙත් නැහැ. කියන කිසිම දෙයක් තේරෙන්නෙත් නැහැ. මෙතුමිය කියන දේ අවබෝධ කරගෙන ඒ හරහා ප්‍රශ්න අහන්න පුළුවන් නිවේදකයෙක් එක්ක මේ වැඩසටහන නැවත කරන්න පුලුවන්ද?
Apoi ow.. epa wenawa.
8n
Dimuthu Wijayaweera
Aniwa!
Very practical and smart women..she was totally right..
she need to create channel
මම ඉන්නේ එංගලන්තේ .. මේ රටේ වෙන්න ඇති ගොඩක් කැඩිච්ච ඉංග්‍රීසී කතා කරන මිනිස්සු ඉන්නේ.. ඒත් කවුරැත් මෙහෙ හිනා වෙන්නෑ .. මැඩම් කියනව වගේ ලංකාවේ තමා එහෙම අය ඉනනේ .. ඒ අයගේ තියන හීන මානේ ..
මම ඉන්නේ canadawe .. ලංකාවේ තරම් මිනිස්සුන්ට හිනා වෙන රටක් , ලෝකේ වෙන කොහේවත් නැ..
වැදගත් සාකච්ඡාවක් . Excellent MADU
Missing Bandula a lot....such a genius in Media and Ms Madhubhashini being hails from such a respectable family shows the true quality ....
Some people do add accents...and some don't.
But there's also a fact that some people naturally accommodate such skills...and speak like a native English speaker.
So dear Madubashini, pls don't discourage students if they sound like a native naturally.
Great program and thank you for sharing your thoughts.
And Bandula, I wish you see this comment, please be respectful as an announcer. Let the guest speak and completely express her ideas.
Thank you
Pathikada is a good program. I too have undergone some of the things she mentioned. Although my parents spoke english well i was hesitant to speak in English. When a trousered person knocks the door we go and called my mother or dad whoever available. My dad always said don't think of wearing longs if you can't speak English.
Glad to know that you are very intelligent.
නිවේදකයා කාල වැඩසටහන එතුමියට කියන්න ඕන වෙච්ච ගොඩක් දේවල් කින්න ඉඩ ඇරියේ නැහැ...
අසාවෙන් අහගෙන හිටියේ හරවත් අර්ථවත් වගේම නිහතමානී කතාබහ නිසා...
වැඩසටහන තවත් දික් උනානම් හොඳයි කියල හිතුන...
Great talk. We all should take this advice. Our people are mostly shy to talk broken English. Attitudes should change.
Worth listening! අපිට තාමත් හීන මානය! ඒකනේ සුදු වෙන්න දගලන්නේ...
Very down to earth person. English is an international language. Don't be shy to speak.
There are so many different words in english language which gives you the same meaning.
E g. You can say she's a brilliant teacher, an amazing teacher or an excellent teacher. Using all three words mean the teacher you're taking about is a very good teacher. Reading, listening how others speak and always try to speak in english will make you speak fluently. Remember practise makes you perfect.!!!
මීට වඩා හොද නිවේදකයෙක් දැම්ම නම් වැඩසටහන තවත් හරවත් වෙන්න තිබුන...
Very good advice for everyone.
great speach that will help to cleance the blind and narrow attitudes and growing selfconfidence on those who suffered
Sounds great ..,but just majority who surrenderd to kind of tv presentation ,all we are matured enough ,and we are too late for fixing our mistakes .highly appreciate you regarding encouragement of our posterity to build up their spoken skill to achive their goals ,dreams through the english language.thanks you to impart your knowledge and,experience with us. 🙏
Good job madam.when I was in university I was lucky to be your student.You are the kindest English teacher I had ever met.
කෙල්ල අර්ථවත් දෙයක් කියද්දී ...අර යකා පැනලා ඒක කනවනේ..😔😔😔😔😔😔
Kella ?? eeka thamai supirima kathaawa. :D :D :D
sirawatama
Sugath Lal sira
eka hari, u pissek, Amu booruvek,
Ow hoda kathawak karan yaddi wena magul kiyonaea pissek wage
I really appreciate for highlighting the facts about accentism, and I hate people being accentists. Truly believe that "English is not to impress, but to express". Also, I am a BA undergraduate at CINEC, and really proud for being a student of madam Parvathi Nagasundaram. She is a legend.
Totally agree with your points.
She is speaking the truth; a life lesson; very simple fact which is happening at all over the world, quote 14.34 'do not ever let anyone make you feel down MENTALLY'.
I from Sri Lanka and live in Australia for more than 15yrs, but here it's same I have experienced this terrible thing in my life as a child to an adult. So many people trying to make you feel down mentally. Starting from home (could be by siblings or elders), at school; (by peers or older school kids), at work, or by politicians etc. It's happening everywhere and it's not just limited to learning to speak. The harsh truth of the world.
So it's up to our parents as she says, build a platform, that as a child, let them feel that we are all born equally and give them chance to learn good things from education first, then at least the kid feel safe and have some confidence. Then it's carried to teachers and so on.
And to all those people who laugh at the mistakes are all bullies, who at some stages of their lives, they've experienced being bullied. So they have poor mentality already. Therefore don't let them break your confidence, instead have sympathy.
Just like the Buddha say, until every mother/ father/ leader of a country/ world, thinks that every child is their own, then the world will be beautiful. Until if that time comes, the world is both a good and bad place, so we all have to be mentally prepared.
So if someone laugh at your mistakes, have sympathy towards them, don't feel bad for yourself.
Lovely. Asset to a little country like Sri Lanka!
This dialogue will surely give those people over there a lot of confidence. We'll done mam!
You are excellent madam 👌
ඕන වෙලාවක් අහන් ඉන්න පුලුවන් මිස්ගෙ කතාව නම් ❤️
Thanks.. godak watina kathawak 🙏
Hi.from Andhra Pradesh. India. Some similar words of our language.
This is a very good interview. Even in countries like Canada, we have so many different accents. Sometimes even I don't understand what some people say but I would never make fun of them because so many people speak the lanuage differently.
Very knowledgeable lady with good personality
අපිනම් එහෙම නෑ ,මමනම් එහෙම නෑ කියලා තමන්ගේ අනන්‍යතාව පෙන්නන එක නියම නිවේදකයකුගේ ලක්ශනයක් නොවේ ..මැඩම්ගේ කතාව කනවා මේ මාමා
Excellent madam..thank you so much....
මේ මැදින් පනින මේ මෝඩ අංකලයව අයින් කරන්නකෝ🙏🙏🙏
a trick: you can watch series on Flixzone. I've been using it for watching a lot of movies recently.
@Remy Melvin yea, have been watching on Flixzone} for since december myself :)
දේශපාලකයො වෙනුවට මෙන්න මේ වගේ උගත් බුද්දිමත් අයට සිරස වේදිකාවක් හදන්න... අර නිවේදකයනම් යන්නේ කොහෙද මල්ලෙ පොල්..
Very good information sharing highly appreciated
thank you miss.you courage our self.ara bandulayata pissu ban
I need to buy that book named GRAMMAR THROUGH LITERATURE.
ඉතාමත් වැදගත්!
you are mostly true but one's language personality depends on standard accent and not in the accustomed accent. But anyway the main purpose of a language is 'exchanging ideas' If you convey your ideas in whatever the form ,either in broken or deformed accent , it is wise of you . you are a blessing to our English !
Great madam. I am also an english teacher. Your words inspire me....
Excellent explanation!
Great Talk ....... Thanks Madam
විමල්, SB,ජොන්ස්ටන්, බැසිල්,මහිදානන්ද,...වගේ නුගතුන් ගෙදර යවල මේවගේ අය පාර්ලිමේන්තු යවමු
Haiyoo hri athi niwedakayek idiya nam sahena dewal thawa igena gnna thibuna me guruwariygen
Good job mam , thank you so much to givining us this video ,& gb you ,
Excellent excellent👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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1. Create Vocabulary 2. Understand the meaning of each word 3. Form simple sentences using each word
If one has access to internet, listen to TH-cam “Learning English written/spoken” . Two versions available British/ American. To SL, British is more acceptable. Each child/person will adopt their accent!
Dear lady, Thank you...!!
ආයු කවුද බං මේ gentleman.... වැදගත් දෙයක් කියාගෙන එද්දි මැදි පනිනවා
මෙ සාකච්ඡා වෙ හොදම තැන් මෙ නිවෙදකයා වලලනවා...........අපරාදෙ මෙ ගුරුතුමිය ගෙ වචන
Harima buddimath me program aka. Man godak kemathi. Thank you
SIRASA TV, PLEASE BRING THIS LADY BACK FOR ANOTHER PROGRAMME WITH AT LEAST AN HOUR, TO TALK ON THE SAME SUBJECT BUT WITHOUT THIS MAN WHO IS SUCH A DISTURBANCE.
Good program .
She is really clear on her topics with simple weighted fatcs.
Programs director must take the responsible of choosing this announcer.
Aththatama sundara nihathamani kanthawak..good luck
Very good idea medam thanks
Budusaranai
Well said young lady !
වටින අදහසක් ...
පේන විදියට මේ නිවේදකයාගේ දැනුම ගොඩක් වැඩියි වගේ. මේ වැඩසටහනට විෂය සම්බන්ද කථිකාචාර්ය වරයෙක් ගෙන්නන්නේ නැතුව එයටම තනියම කරන්න තිබ්බ නේ. ඒ මනුස්සයට කියන්න දෙන්නේ නෑ පනිනවා හැමවෙලේම දේශපාලුවෝ වගේ...
ලොකයේ රටවල් දියුණු වී ඇත්තේ තමන්ගේ මවු භාෂාවෙනි..ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂාව ලොවට අවශ්‍යය තමන්ගේ භාෂාව කතානොකරන නොතේරෙන කෙනෙකුට තමගේ දෙය කීමටයි..සිංහල අපිට ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂාවක් වශයෙන් ඉගෙන ගන්න.එය තමන් බුද්ධිමතයෙක් කියා අනෙකාට හගවන්න නොවෙයි..කොයි භාෂාවෙන් හෝ තමා අධ්‍යාපනයක් ලැබුවානමි එයට ගරැකරන්න .යුරෝපයේ ඉංග්‍රීසි වලට පහත්ම තැන දෙයි පලමුව රටෙි මවු භාෂාව..තමන්ගේ භාෂාව කතානොකරන්නේ නමි වැරදියට හෝ ඉංග්‍රීසියෙන් කතාකර ඔහුට පහදාදෙයි එතනට අවශ්‍ය දෙදෙනා අතර සංනිවෙිදනය කිරිම පමනයි..බුද්ධිය ගැන සහ ලැඡ්ඡාවට පත්නොවෙයි වැරදුනාට..අපේ රටෙි...එම වැරද්ද හදනතුරැ අපි තවම යමක් මානසික රෝගියෝ..ඉංග්‍රීසි දන්න එකා කෙනෙක් සමග කතාකරනවිට ඒකට වැරදුනොත් සිනාසෙයි..සිංහල වැරදීම හෝ වරද්දා කතාකර එය තමා එය තමාට ගෘරවරයක් නැත්නමි මට මතක නැත සිංහල වචනය..කියා කියනවා..මම ඉතාලියේ වසර 35 කාලයක සිට පදිංචිය මම නමි මෙි රටෙි භාෂාව හැර ඉංග්‍රීසි කතාකරන අය දැක නැත දැනගත්තත් කතා නොකරයි..
I appreciate all your advice except for your attitude towards people who are interested in learning English with proper pronunciation. I respect your intention of appreciating the people who are Sri Lankan English professors in Oxford with Sinhalese English pronunciation. However, I cannot justify your attitude towards the people who pronounce English properly while following the British or American English pronunciation. I do believe that one can learn the proper British or American accent if he is passionate about the accent. Just because you follow Sri Lankan English pronunciation, you can't frown upon the avid admirers of proper English pronunciation. I believe that the people who can pronounce English more appropriately are always praised by native speakers.
You also implied that Sri Lankan professor does not have any British accent while he is in Sri Lanka. You also mentioned that he might use the British accent when he speaks to a British speaker. Does that mean he still follows the British accent? Does it not mean that following proper pronunciation is personal and it cannot be a terrible mistake to follow the proper pronunciation?
Your comments discourage the teachers who are interested in improving the pronunciation of British or American English. You can also encourage the teachers who make terrible pronunciation errors. I do not understand why you had to insult the people who support such British or American pronunciation after studying pronunciation ( phonology ) while following your degrees. I believe you are aware of all the aspects of 'connected speech' as well. Yet you seem to underestimate the value of proper pronunciation.
To conclude, I would like to appreciate your achievements and writing skills. You are undoubtedly exceptionally talented. Nonetheless, I do not believe that the people who prefer British or American pronunciation are wasting their time because it is not a cardinal sin to pronounce the English words accordingly. Finally, you are entitled to your opinion and so are the others. So do not discourage people who embrace such accurate pronunciation because it is not their fault that you do not follow the proper pronunciation. It is like telling you to stop writing books because I have not written any!!!
Intelligent she is.
නිවේදකයා බාධා කරනවා වැඩී..
Oba wage guruwarun dasa dahas gananin bihiwewa!eth gam wala inna daruwange as padanna labewa!
Thank you madam🙏
Madubashini miss genne nathuwa bandulatama program eka karanna dunnanam iwarai. Prassna ahanawa a ekakatawath hariyata uttara denda denna tawa 10k ewa kiyanawa. Welawa prasnayak tiyenawanam oya wage program nokara inna eka mita vadiya hondai.
aththamai
Very well said!!
Great discussion, why don’t we adapt this theory into education system. Need to fix the children. It’s too late to fix some adults. We need someone like you as secretary of education.
Ascent is something comes as a secondary thing. These days more people speak American English.
More importantly English is important to get the message across, let’s use as a method of communication not to judge each other as society
All the best and keep up the good work.
Its a pleasure listening to her!
ඉංග්‍රීසි මතක් වෙද්දි ගස් බංඩව තමයි මතක් වෙන්නෙ .ඕකා තමයි ලංකාවෙ මිනිස්සුන්ව මෝඩයන් කරේ රාජ්‍ය භාෂාව සිංහල විතරක් කරල.එදා... ලංකාවෙ රාජ්‍ය භාෂාවන් සිංහල ,දෙමළ,ඉංග්‍රීසි තුනම අනිවාර්යය කරානම් අද අපේ කොල්ලො ත්‍රී වීල් අරන් හන්දි ගානෙ රස්තියාදු වෙන්නෙ නෑ .බංඩගෙ ලමයි ඉගෙන ගන්න පිටරටවල්වල යවලා කෙලිය ලංකාවෙ මිනිස්සුන්ට .මේ ගෙරි කාලකණ්ණි දේශපාලුවන් තමයි එදා ඉඳන්ම අපේ රට විනාශ කරේ.
Great Speach Madam... please, let her to express her ideas. ...
Thanks
Please consider creating the audio book of your two books for the benefit of the vision impaired. Jpura uni has an audio book production unit. The vision impaired deserve to have this knowledge too. I greatly appreciate your dedication to making English a pleasant subject
excellent job madam.
Hoda wada satahanak hoda niwadakayek hitiyanam
thank you madam! this is a good speech
Thank u madam u are grete idiyas thak u so much
I want to listen more conversations and get more ideas from this madam. If anyone knows how to watch her conversations like this or her fb acc please let me know here🙏 Thank you.
you grate madam thank you
Excellent
How can I buy those books please? Any clue about a place to buy?
Well done madam.
හොඳ සංවාදයක්, පරිනත දක්ෂ නිවේදකයකු නියෝජනය කෙරුනා නම් තවත් සංවාදය විවෘත වෙන්න තිබ්බා.
Melo wadak nathi wadasatahan walata welawa wen karanawa , me wage wadagath deyakata welawa madi
අන්ලයික් කරලා තියෙන්නේ..ඉංග්‍රීසි දන්න අනිත් කැම්පස් වල ලෙක්චර්ස්ලා වෙන්න ඇති.....
කෙල්ල අර්ථවත් දෙයක් කියද්දී ...අර යකා පැනලා ඒක කනවනේ
Ow bn maha wikarayak eya
Read and read, one day you can fly 🕊️
Good motivation
You gave us Great ideas . Respect you madam.
Mr. Bandula. Don"t interrupt like that when she delivering her ideas. Shame on you man. Be humble and mind your attitude.
Kind advice to the program coordinator,
Please let the resource person to go on his/her route. If you have any planned content, please let him know before the session. Do not disturb the flow in the middle. Otherwise, this kind of programs are useless. really useless!.
Great Lady