How well do people speak English in Nepal?

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Tenzing l

It depends upon the kind of school the child adopt.. Most of the Nepali children are still far from the light of education and they don't have any way to learn english and other source of education...

There are mainly two types of school child goes ... they are
1. Government School:
Most of the families of Nepal are Poor and Nepal is therefore considered as the poor country. In government school the children have only one english subject to study and other all subject are in Nepali.. So therefore, most of the children learning in governmental school don't know how to speak and write nicely ( no good structure)

2. Private School:
The middle class families and high class families of Nepal prefer to send their child to Private school as they have 1 nepali subject and all other subjects in English.. Most of the people living in cities go to these kinds of school and pay more to the school as a school fees.. however there are some school which are runned through the donation of people from abroad.. but most them don't fully donate and provide the facilities to the student as per the donation they recieve...
However, the children of private school specially from Kathmandu, Pokhara and Biratnagar.. have a good command in English.. but Other schools of other cities are good in Writing and no good command in speaking...

Hope this answers your question well..

For donation for the poor children to study please visit www.thisngo.org - this is one organisation i have seen who promptly works in the most remote area, Humla, in sector of Education, Health..etc. and are loyal..

Tenzing
http://www.a1excursion.com

Sanjay G

People in Nepal specially in the city areas speak english quite well. Once you go to the villages things are different and only the teacher in the village school or ex army personal can speak english. But overall in the region where there is contact with foreigners or tourist people tend to know english pretty well.

Iniaz

Most of those in the tourist industry, the traders, the guides, the waiters, etc speak English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Italian - you name it, they speak it well enough to communicate.
Non tourist workers, speak basic English. Enough to understand and get by.

PAH

Well it depends. Lots of people can speak english but they may have a heavy accent. Just look for someone that looks educated, they should help you, but be careful of people, many tourists have been kidnapped for their money.

manushi

I am Nepali.My personal experience, I could read and write English but did not have confidence to speak. when i came to america i did not know what people are talking about because they were talking too fast and i had hard time catching up.

rudrak5ha

Tenzing said, "However, the children of private school specially from Kathmandu, Pokhara and Biratnagar.. have a good command in English.. but Other schools of other cities are good in Writing and no good command in speaking..." <<< 100% Agree. The major reason are: in these cities students have proper English environment at school and at home as well. But, in my region, students read/write English in one class(unless you take English medium which has all subjects written in English except Nepali), speak Nepali (national language) in school unless we are forced to use English and if we are most of us do not bother or try to bypass using "ing" after nepali words lol, then we speak local language at home. 2nd, Our tone is quite effected by primary language we speak and here we were speaking 3-5 languages then how in the world we are supposed to speak English?? 3rd, we learn informal English not slangs and informal English. 4th, We learn standard English- British not flipped English- American.

I come from a small town of Nepal (Dhanghadhi,) far away from the Capital City (Kathmandu). When I moved to US, my case was similar to Manushi,"I could read and write English but did not have confidence to speak. when i came to America i did not know what people are talking about because they were talking too fast and i had hard time catching up." For a couple of months i too had hard time US getting caught with American slangs, informal English general phrases, and America tone. I used to read subtitles in TV coz i did not understand most of the spoken English. Similarly, in highschool i could not understand what black people were speaking (coz their tone was unfamiliar to me) and even i could not catch up with the word of instructor but now time passed on and ya i get it...you just have to stretch your tone like "absobloodylutely" instead of "absolutely"...like a brake failed car.

filamusa

They don't speak english very well.

fireashes

They fairly can...People form the cities can understand little bit of english (UK). The english language taught is uk-english. But they have no idea what an American is speaking.. and if you use slang...nobody can understand...

there are a lot of local self acclaimed guide. there are no licensed guide. they can understand very little English.

Try to speak english to students in their uniform. They will help you ... others wont and dont.

NaeBoo

I am from Malaysia, and lots of Nepal people work in our factory. i feel that it is hard to communicate with some of them, some they understand but some they reply YES i understand but never do? but before we employed them their qualification is quite good, but after employ it is totally different....maybe they do speaks and understand English, but their work quality is not so satisfied.

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