Regarding English in post-secondary education, I'd agree with your impression; many people's practical fluency is mediocre at best, and completely skewed towards technical jargon (the latter part, because my experience with German uni has been that people who thought they wouldn't need English after high school tend to be disabused of that notion pretty quickly because in the merry-go-round of academic employment, the chance that one of your mandatory courses this year happens to only be taught by someone who speaks approximately enough German to order coffee, is about 1 in 5. Education culture in Germany is honestly a whole-ass rant by itself.)
And linguistics is great - I'm almost sad I didn't stick around for a post-grad degree, but my bank account is probably grateful I didn't ^^°
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Date: 2019-02-24 08:02 pm (UTC)Regarding English in post-secondary education, I'd agree with your impression; many people's practical fluency is mediocre at best, and completely skewed towards technical jargon (the latter part, because my experience with German uni has been that people who thought they wouldn't need English after high school tend to be disabused of that notion pretty quickly because in the merry-go-round of academic employment, the chance that one of your mandatory courses this year happens to only be taught by someone who speaks approximately enough German to order coffee, is about 1 in 5. Education culture in Germany is honestly a whole-ass rant by itself.)
And linguistics is great - I'm almost sad I didn't stick around for a post-grad degree, but my bank account is probably grateful I didn't ^^°