Very interesting point, Aditya.
Everybody who knows Hindi (or English or Tamil or any language) is not able to express himself equally well. Some people make their points well while others keep blabbering and bore people.
Absolutely, communication is much more than having communicative competence in a language.
Infact, command over a language is the core around which communication excellence is built. Competence in a language is necessary for being a good communicator but not sufficient.
From a trainer's perspective, communication excellence has two parts:
a) A fundamental, central core which is competence in a language - the ability to use the tools of the language to express one's needs, feelings, thoughts in an effective manner.
b) An outer core made of higher order skills including the ability to extract the central point, to organize information, to convey it using minimum words to create maximum impact.
However, the higher order communication skills do not happen till you have a very strong inner core of language competence. Look at all the good communicators - Obama, Atal Behari Vajpayee, Azeem Premji, James Bond (or anybody else) - all of them have superb command over their language, PLUS something else.
I agree, language is not the whole. It's just the central pre-requisite. It's like building a two storey house - you can't have the first floor till you have a ground floor but when you just have a ground floor - it's still not a two storey thing (Wow! did I manage to tie everyone in circles!!!)
Everybody who knows Hindi (or English or Tamil or any language) is not able to express himself equally well. Some people make their points well while others keep blabbering and bore people.
Absolutely, communication is much more than having communicative competence in a language.
Infact, command over a language is the core around which communication excellence is built. Competence in a language is necessary for being a good communicator but not sufficient.
From a trainer's perspective, communication excellence has two parts:
a) A fundamental, central core which is competence in a language - the ability to use the tools of the language to express one's needs, feelings, thoughts in an effective manner.
b) An outer core made of higher order skills including the ability to extract the central point, to organize information, to convey it using minimum words to create maximum impact.
However, the higher order communication skills do not happen till you have a very strong inner core of language competence. Look at all the good communicators - Obama, Atal Behari Vajpayee, Azeem Premji, James Bond (or anybody else) - all of them have superb command over their language, PLUS something else.
I agree, language is not the whole. It's just the central pre-requisite. It's like building a two storey house - you can't have the first floor till you have a ground floor but when you just have a ground floor - it's still not a two storey thing (Wow! did I manage to tie everyone in circles!!!)