nothing like trying to learn physics from a teacher that can hardly speak english.

[andrey]

I'm glad I know Russian, English and German.. ;-)

 

[imported_Mike]

today my teacher told us he had a 20+ year academic career, i had to chuckle a little..., not becuase his english, he is not very good at physics either, maybe that 20 years was for i dunno...

 

[MinorityReport]

Originally posted by: DoNotDisturb

Originally posted by: Evadman
I left ISU because my C++ teacher could barely speak english, and would respond to questions with, "ya, uh huh." while nodding. I did not pay sh!tloads of money for that crap. Deans did nothing when aproched my many students (many meaning over 50 at one meeting on this one teacher)

I am now self taught

my teacher was an indian... hard to understand him.

We had a CS Data Structure & Algorythms professor from South India.

He had the thickest accent anyone can ever have.

He pronounced "a" as "yaaeee", dunkin donuts as "dunghin donots", "H" as "yeaacch", M as "yemm"

So in this one class there is a girl sitting on the front bench and he is going on and on about array solving equation of "a" and "a1" "a2".

He asks that same girl to solve this problem... however she shows the uttermost signs of helplessness.

He looks down on her notebook and shows it to the whole class .. the poor girl had written array classes as " yaee1" "yaee2" "yaee3" instead of "a1. a2, a3" .. ..

 

[KokomoGST]

Originally posted by: andrey
I'm glad I know Russian, English and German.. ;-)

Argh... 4 teachers... 4 incredibly bad accents...
I'm Asian and I'm usually pretty damn good at deciphering engrish, but my Chem TA (big school = no prof) didn't only speak broken horrendously accented English, she spoke at a volume that can be drowned out by a pin dropping.

Next up was my German Calc2 TA... yet again
Then my Russian DiffEQ Prof we got tired of asking him to repeat himself and not erase as he wrote!
My Indian CS prof wasn't so bad because I was good enough at the class where I could ignore him and get help from the normal english speaking TAs. Some of my physics profs wrote so quickly and spoke so muddly that everyone complained... and did bad on the exams. Average score? 47/100

 

[yoda291]

I can relate. My database structure course was taught by a heavily accented man. It took a week to figure out he was babbling about boyce-codd normal form. Thank God I already had a firm grounding in databases

 

[dabuddha]

I had a Korean teacher for Phys 2
first 2 days of class (there were about 14 of us total in this huge auditorium room), we were all spread out in the class room.
3rd day, the entire front row was filled up with students straining to understand

 

[PhaZe]

My economics teacher has a thick accent, he's from Turkey. We get a kick out of it though, he pronounces machinery - "missionary". He does know his stuff though, has a masters in economics and is currently working on his PhD.