That sucks 
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I definitely think the TAs with bad english who cant really help you because of the english barrier is way worse.
A close second are professors that dont like to answer questions directly or have a roundabout way of answering them.
.I definitely think the TAs with bad english who cant really help you because of the english barrier is way worse.
A close second are professors that dont like to answer questions directly or have a roundabout way of answering them.
if the us provided decient science classes, more students would get interested into the subject. why become a science teacher when you can get a job in a lab or field work making some major $$. unless you love helping people, its just not your thing. i am intrigued by science subjects, but teachers present them in a boring way...in my opinion.
I'd talk to somebody about it... despite the fact he's probably smart. that's totally unfair to people like you who can't understand what the teach is saying.. that's so crap... i'd be angry that's for sure.
You don't need to understand his english to learn physics. Just his math
I had lot's of foriegn teachers ... what I actually found more difficult was following the thought process. Had this russian guy for a grad level composites structures class. Beginning material was stuff I had had before & knew well, but he approached the derivations from a completely different direction. Very frustrating, but finally understanding a different approach brought new insights into the material. Continued throughout the course though ... his approach to problem solving, derivations & such was very foriegn.
I had lot's of foriegn teachers ... what I actually found more difficult was following the thought process. Had this russian guy for a grad level composites structures class. Beginning material was stuff I had had before & knew well, but he approached the derivations from a completely different direction. Very frustrating, but finally understanding a different approach brought new insights into the material. Continued throughout the course though ... his approach to problem solving, derivations & such was very foriegn.
Originally posted by: ergeorge
You don't need to understand his english to learn physics. Just his math
this is not a calculus based physics, so i think the math part i have down pretty well
I once had a brazillion physic's professor who told the entire lecture hall to go home and study
Superman 5. The entire lecture was baffled until it was actually figured out he meant suplement 5.
Superman 5. The entire lecture was baffled until it was actually figured out he meant suplement 5.
Queasy
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I had the same problems when I was in college.
My chemistry prof was Hungarian and could barely speak English and had horrendous hand-writing. You couldn't understand what he spoke or wrote. Over 70% of his class received less than a 2.0. I was right on the cusp of having a 2.0 (1.94) and went to talk with him about my grade and instead was assaulted with diatribe about the American educational system and the laziness of American students.
My calculus profs were all Chinese except for one American prof. I got an A with the American prof and Ds with the Chinese. I gave up Computer Engineering and went to MIS after that because that American prof was one of only two in the Math department and I couldn't sit through three more years of that.
Part of the problem is colleges hire professors today for their research and not for the teaching abilities.
My chemistry prof was Hungarian and could barely speak English and had horrendous hand-writing. You couldn't understand what he spoke or wrote. Over 70% of his class received less than a 2.0. I was right on the cusp of having a 2.0 (1.94) and went to talk with him about my grade and instead was assaulted with diatribe about the American educational system and the laziness of American students.
My calculus profs were all Chinese except for one American prof. I got an A with the American prof and Ds with the Chinese. I gave up Computer Engineering and went to MIS after that because that American prof was one of only two in the Math department and I couldn't sit through three more years of that.
Part of the problem is colleges hire professors today for their research and not for the teaching abilities.
ah yes, the good old days of college. my physics teacher was from romania. she spoke english rather well and happened to be a great, sympathetic professor. i wouldn't have made it through physics without her.
you know, the way to fix this is to make more english speakers academically smarter than non-english speakers
my chemics teacher can do square roots long hand
how many on here know how to do that?
and he is a marathon runner and his favorite movie is pootie-tang
so he is a hilarious dude, but his class is hard as hell
how many on here know how to do that?
and he is a marathon runner and his favorite movie is pootie-tang
so he is a hilarious dude, but his class is hard as hell
exactly.... just come to the eecs department in berkeley and you'll realize that most of us are asian and non-native born
I got a phsics teachers thats the same way, we its a big lecture hall and you can hear every other word if its a good day, so far we have learned that we all came from africa.... and thats abtou it, in my physics class, in college.
lol... my calc III teacher is like that. to make it worse, so far it seems like he expects you to have a telepathic link with him for some of his explanations. he asks the class to describe the graph of some crazy 3-dimensional function and everyone just sits there looking at him like this
I agree 75% of the teachers i've had here in Alabama are so hard to understand I just do homework for other classes.. it's like high school but it cost more...
Don't University Profs make an ass-load of money though? Like 100K a year?
That should be an incentive to have more Profs.
That should be an incentive to have more Profs.
Lithium381
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my trig teacher is a bit hard to understand......says things like calcular......which i take as calculator....poative is "positive" and other such mis pronounced words........meh
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