The trouble is that a lot of these people have never interacted with people who completed their professional education in their own mother tongues (whether French, German, Chinese, Korean or whatever) but still picked up good expression in English.
It is super common, folks.
It is super common, folks.
https://twitter.com/_Resurgent_/status/1443482886812815363
The most ridiculous situation is when these counter-examples to their argument stare right at their face, and they think they somehow are bolstering their argument instead of weakening it.
Fact: All these German people studied in German medium.
Fact: All these German people studied in German medium.
https://twitter.com/krithikasivasw/status/1443351191761477635
I teach in Germany and in German medium. Most of my students are excellent English speakers, I would say better than 90% of Indians *who studied in English medium*. I give the option for making course presentations in English, but almost always they choose to present in German.
How do I know their level of English? The scientific papers we read in my seminars are in English. But the students choose to present in German, effortlessly translating all the terminology and expressing arguments in German. Why? Because they think and function better in German.
This is just a commonsense thing that is lost in India, simply because the vast majority of our Anglophone elite have never seen a different world. Their exposure to the outside world, even in the cases where it happens, is limited to Anglophone countries like USA, Australia etc.
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