Wow! Taking a class from a prof with a speech impediment is hella annoying!

[James3shin]

I'm taking a upper level science course and my professor has a slight...ok not so slight problem with getting words out/speaking. I'm really into the material but the professors speech impediment is making the course very hard to follow. It would be a bit more bearable if he would post his power point lectures prior to the class so we can keep up with his blistering pace and speech impediment. According to the professor, the justification for not posting the notes online prior to the lectures is to force students to put their rears into chairs...WTF?! LAME! /rant

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

At least it forces you to listen carefully. P.S. Folks who say "hella" are really annoying.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: James3shin
I'm taking a upper level science course and my professor has a slight...ok not so slight problem with getting words out/speaking. I'm really into the material but the professors speech impediment is making the course very hard to follow. It would be a bit more bearable if he would post his power point lectures prior to the class so we can keep up with his blistering pace and speech impediment. According to the professor, the justification for not posting the notes online prior to the lectures is to force students to put their rears into chairs...WTF?! LAME! /rant

you have a very legitimate rant. my brother attended a college where they employed quite a few "foreign" professors. he had trouble understanding a few of them because their accents were so thick. not really a fair situation for the student at all.

 

[homercles337]

Originally posted by: James3shin
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0/10, weaksauce.

Are talking about a speech impediment or an accent?

:thumbsdown: to the rant if its an impediment
:thumbsup: to the rant if its an accent

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: homercles337

Originally posted by: James3shin
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0/10, weaksauce.

Are talking about a speech impediment or an accent?

:thumbsdown: to the rant if its an impediment
:thumbsup: to the rant if its an accent

why? he pays good money to go there, he deserves a quality education from people that can speak fluent english properly.

 

[Deeko]

Originally posted by: homercles337

Originally posted by: James3shin
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0/10, weaksauce.

Are talking about a speech impediment or an accent?

:thumbsdown: to the rant if its an impediment
:thumbsup: to the rant if its an accent

uhhh....why? The professor's job is to speak, you know that, right? Its nothing against people with disabilities, but they don't put someone with cerebral palsy in the NFL, either. Depending on the school, he could be paying thousands of dollars for that course alone, and he has a very legitimate complaint if he can't understand the professor, and the professor doesn't make class materials available in print/online to make up for it.

 

[James3shin]

- I attend Univ. of Maryland College Park

- The professor has both an accent and impediment.

- BLAH!!!!!

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

change professors / classes

 

[thomsbrain]

Yeah, I had this problem with a number of Profs and TA's in school. It's a really tough situation. Luckily at least one of them was aware of the situation and tried really hard to make sure everyone was keeping up. He would stop and slow down or repeat things when he realized he was spitting out word-soup. But some were just lost causes.

 

[MyThirdEye]

I have a teacher like that, who makes obvious speech imperfections.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Chem I Lab TA, sounds like a call center type person

Cations = Casheons
Anions = Uhneons
Dissolution = Dis-solute-ion

And to make things worse he stands waaaaay at the other end of the lab and talks in the quietest fucking voice, then he gives us when he sees us all shuffling over there.

 

[uclaLabrat]

I took Pchem from a guy like that. He used to say "everybody knows" at the start of just about every sentence.

And would end with "is it."

"Everybody knows, the electrons, they spin like your head, is it?"

It was so hard to keep a straight face in a class of like 8 people.

 

[hiromizu]

I had a systems communication professor from Iran that had the worst accent ever. He also never gave any efforts into how the material relates to real world scenarios which made his lectures a useless regurgitation of the books. I made a legitimate deal with him after much arguing and ended up just reading the books while not showing up to class and passed all of his exams - and his class. Nice.

 

[invidia]

I had a professor who taught a class in pure German instead of English. couldn't understand a damn thing he was saying, but lucky I passed the class due to an english speaking TA.

 

[TecHNooB]

Linear Circuit Analysis I

Voltage -> Woltage
Wattage -> Woltage

 

[Apathetic]

My sister ran into a problem like that while she was taking a mid-level Russian course. The school had a visiting professor from China who spoke verry little English. Let's just say taking a Russian class where the professor speaks Russian with a very thick Chinese accent wasn't very fun. :|

Dave

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: James3shin
I'm taking a upper level science course and my professor has a slight...ok not so slight problem with getting words out/speaking. I'm really into the material but the professors speech impediment is making the course very hard to follow. It would be a bit more bearable if he would post his power point lectures prior to the class so we can keep up with his blistering pace and speech impediment. According to the professor, the justification for not posting the notes online prior to the lectures is to force students to put their rears into chairs...WTF?! LAME! /rant

you have a very legitimate rant. my brother attended a college where they employed quite a few "foreign" professors. he had trouble understanding a few of them because their accents were so thick. not really a fair situation for the student at all.

 

[Pugnax]

Ack..I took a stats class with this prof who had the worst stut-stttttut-ttt-stuttering problem of all time. The pp-pppp--pprobability of the ... oh man. Especially with engineering stats...not exactly the most easy class to begin with + stuttering = set up for failure. I'm glad that's over.

 

[glutenberg]

I had a Macroeconomics professor at the university with a thick Japanese accent. I spent the good half of the quarter wondering what "risk covers." Turns out he was trying to say "risk averse" but no matter how slowly he'd say it, it would always come out as risk covers. My classmates and I would always wonder what risk covers as he never said anything afterwards. Was an interesting class and once we figured out what he was trying to say, it started making sense.

 

[bignateyk]

Originally posted by: TecHNooB
Linear Circuit Analysis I

Voltage -> Woltage
Wattage -> Woltage

haha

I've got you all beat. In one of my calc classes back in college, I had some asian guy who didnt know how to write the number 9.

He wrote it backwards as a P. Which made it really difficult to figure out WTF was going on when there were 9's and rho's (p's) in the same equation.

 

[manowar821]

Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
At least it forces you to listen carefully. P.S. Folks who say "hella" are really annoying.

DAMMIT YOU BEAT ME TO IT

 

[Dirigible]

I say hella a lot. It wasn't until I left home for college that I found out it was a regional thing. At least that's my understanding. Hella = Norcal.

I hella like saying "hella."

 

[manowar821]

Originally posted by: Dirigible
I say hella a lot. It wasn't until I left home for college that I found out it was a regional thing. At least that's my understanding. Hella = Norcal.

I hella like saying "hella."

It's also a suburban Minnesotan thing, for hipsters. I want to punch them.

 

[mikej007]

I had a prof who had a bad stutter. Man was that annoying to hear him fumbling around with the words.

 

[Dirigible]

Originally posted by: manowar821

Originally posted by: Dirigible
I say hella a lot. It wasn't until I left home for college that I found out it was a regional thing. At least that's my understanding. Hella = Norcal.

I hella like saying "hella."

It's also a suburban Minnesotan thing, for hipsters. I want to punch them.

It was an everyone thing growing up around here in the '70s. I didn't even know what a hipster was back then.

But I gotta agree with you. I also want to punch hipsters. Repeatedly.

 

[PepePeru]

i took a 1000 level biology class from a woman who was for all intents and purposes, deaf.
her 'hearing ear' dog would sit next to her in class.
she was hard to understand.