[elcid1970]

How about trying to learn differential calculus when the foreign-born teaching assistant is unintelligible in English? Common at universities.

[MUDDOG]

Indeed!

Mitigated somewhat by the fact that even the native English-speaking math teachers are bad.

[Snickering Hound]

How about trying to learn differential calculus when the foreign-born teaching assistant is unintelligible in English? Common at universities.

Best calculus teacher I had hardly spoke any English, he just worked problem after problem on the board step by step until you got it.

I despised those instructors that spent much of their class time describing the philosophy of how to approach equations and hardly worked any equations at all.

[loungitude]

How about trying to learn differential calculus when the foreign-born teaching assistant is unintelligible in English? Common at universities.

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I had to learn differential equations (a bit harder than diff calc) from a Polish lady who’s English was limited to “yes...yes?...yes?...”.

[mountn man]

I had a teacher at the local community college like that. It was a Calculus class. His speaking was so broken, I could only make out about 1/2 of the words. That is, until he was talking about how great of a mathematician he was.

Trying to actually learn something, when you're just trying to figure out what the teacher is saying, vs figuring out what you're supposed to learn.