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To: marcusmaximus

Just imagine the accents that poor Milwaukee kids are being asked to decipher.


6 posted on 10/03/2025 12:32:10 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

Especially the math students.


8 posted on 10/03/2025 12:34:37 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: 9YearLurker

A problem of long-standing in colleges with foreign graduate assistants teaching lower-level courses. My memory of a Chinese grad student teaching a required American History after 1865 course is still with me over 50 years later. I spent a long time trying to decipher his pronunciation of “manifest destiny” & “social Darwinism” in the early part of the course. I was a kid from small-town Oklahoma who had very little interaction with any foreign accent.


20 posted on 10/03/2025 1:42:23 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't. )
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