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Are Masters in Poland free of charge for EE citizens? (English) [7]
@Atch, as I've stated on previous occasions, if the professor(s) are native UK speakers, for instance,
who teach the course in English to other English native speaking students, where's the problem?
However, I could scarcely imagine a Greek native speaker sitting in a lecture/seminar room and listening to
a Polish, German or French native speaker with all the second, even third language interference which such
entails, lecturing or discussing in their semi-fluent English.
This is the stuff of lowbrow comedy, Abbot & Costello meets the Marx Bros.LOL
I recall a brief incident where a German professor visited our school in Manhattan to give a seminar on
new ESL teaching techniques. We all arrived for the seminar, all of us English native speakers, to find the
professor writing various learning tips on the board: "Scheduled learning is going in front of all."
The words are English, yet the sense was incomprehensible to our group. I suggested to the speaker, being
a second language English speaker, that perhaps he meant "Systematic study is of primary importance."
when the fellow snapped at me "Ahemm, you obviously don't understand what I mean, but in English, we
say "Scheduled learning"!
Obviously he was translating almost word for word from his native German " Vor allem planmaessiges Studium
ist ganz wichtig".But arrogance on this level I never encountered in my entire career.
