EPTKoreans try out their English at WCS Season Finals - Page 6
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mizU
United States12125 Posts
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dafunk
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geokilla
Canada8213 Posts
On October 29 2013 16:38 DarkLordOlli wrote: #NoSleepTillGM Polt is really making a case for the Asian student stereotype. Ya... Polt just made me feel like I'm a loser. I have 12 to 15 hours of school each week, and I get what I consider to be bad marks. And I don't even have a job anymore, let alone having a career as a part time progamer like Polt. GO POLT! Keep it up, but don't get sick and let your health suffer! On October 30 2013 01:50 ggofthejungle wrote: Guys, stop comparing your US undergrad/grad courseload to his courseload. He's taking 18 hours of English a week, not 3 hours of English, 3 of Math, 3 of Chemistry, 3 of Physics, and 3 of whatever. Do you see the difference now? He's probably in an ESL program, not an MBA, not an undergraduate level coursework. It's a foreign language that billions speak it. That's why he says it's easy. That is true but it doesn't change the fact that he has 18 hours of classes per week. Assuming the usual 3 hours of lecture per class, that means he has 6 classes each week and different assignments, readings, and midterms to do and prepare for. HerO's English is pretty good. Keep it up HerO! | ||
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Sub40APM
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On October 30 2013 06:36 dafunk wrote: You're happy because a bunch of Koreans are able ton speak english. wow Yea, it shows that Korean pros want to engage their English speaking fans, making being their fan more enjoyable because now its more of a two way exchange. Dont be salty because the French lost to the English in the game of languages. | ||
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slowbacontron
United States7722 Posts
On October 30 2013 06:36 dafunk wrote: You're happy because a bunch of Koreans are able ton speak english. wow English is a useful skill ton have ^^ | ||
Zealously
East Gorteau22261 Posts
On October 30 2013 06:36 dafunk wrote: You're happy because a bunch of Koreans are able ton speak english. wow Go ahead and learn Korean while juggling time-consuming practice and university studies. You'd be fluent in a year no problem | ||
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AlternativeEgo
Sweden17309 Posts
On October 30 2013 07:09 Zealously wrote: Go ahead and learn Korean while juggling time-consuming practice and university studies. You'd be fluent in a year no problem But what if he already knew the basics of the language and the university studies was focused on it? I believe in you, dafunk. | ||
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Holloworb
Norway345 Posts
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Prog455
Denmark970 Posts
On October 30 2013 07:09 Zealously wrote: Go ahead and learn Korean while juggling time-consuming practice and university studies. You'd be fluent in a year no problem Keep in mind though that his university studies is all about learning english. It is impressive that Polt is still a succesful progamer while attending school, but in all honesty we don't know neither how heavy to workload is, nor how well he is doing. Also i think people need to stop comparing English to Korean or Chinese. English is by far the most widely spoken language. There is no comparison. | ||
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sjh
Canada136 Posts
On October 30 2013 07:36 Prog455 wrote: Keep in mind though that his university studies is all about learning English. It is impressive that Polt is still a succesful progamer while attending school, but in all honesty we don't know neither how heavy to workload is, nor how well he is doing. Also i think people need to stop comparing English to Korean or Chinese. English is by far the most widely spoken language. There is no comparison. This is far from clear. For instance this wikipedia page ranks English as second (behind Standard Chinese) in terms of native speakers + secondary speakers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers If we look at just native speakers English ranks third (behind Mandarin and Spanish): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers | ||
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Champi
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Prog455
Denmark970 Posts
On October 30 2013 07:48 sjh wrote: This is far from clear. For instance this wikipedia page ranks English as second (behind Standard Chinese) in terms of native speakers + secondary speakers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers If we look at just native speakers English ranks third (behind Mandarin and Spanish): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers I know that a lot of people like to think that Chinese is just Chinese. It is, however, not quite so. I recently read an article claming that as many as 400 million Chinese didn't speak the official Chinese. Furthermore Chinese is still not widely spoken outside of China, where as English is spoken all around the world. English is for instance the second most spoken language in India, the second largest country in the world in terms of population. Also you might want to read the article you refer to. It actually says that English is the most widely spoken langauge in the world, with about 1.5 to 1.8 billion speakers, where as Standard Chinese only amounts to 1.3 billion, even though the actual amount of speakers of the same language is indeed lower. If you want to count Chinese as one language you might aswell just go ahead and consider European languages as one, that being English, German, Nordic, French, Spanish, Italian, Portugese and so on. Furthermore it should be noted that English is a part of the Indo-European language family, that does indeed have approximately 3 billion native speakers | ||
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Cheren
United States2911 Posts
On October 29 2013 19:08 Coolhwip wrote: is 18 hours a week full time? In sweden 40 hours is full time :/ I think credit hours work differently, in the US and probably Canada 18 hours means 18 hours of lecture, and then 2-3 hours of studying/homework per hour of lecture. | ||
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Grobyc
Canada18410 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + I won't say 18 hours isn't a lot of class time because it really does depend on a lot of things as people have already mentioned, but I was kind of hoping he would have elaborated more and said how much time he spends working on school-related stuff. I had maybe 6~ish hours of lecture time 5 days a week and spent another 2-3 hours doing homework/labs/studying. Anyways, yeah it sounds kind of silly to say he goes to school "full-time" when there's no further elaboration on the total time. edit: although obviously it would still be immensely hard to win WCS even as a part-time student. | ||
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forsooth
United States3648 Posts
On October 30 2013 07:48 sjh wrote: This is far from clear. For instance this wikipedia page ranks English as second (behind Standard Chinese) in terms of native speakers + secondary speakers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers If we look at just native speakers English ranks third (behind Mandarin and Spanish): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers Note the term "widely". Mandarin is spoken by a shitload of people but all in one place. English on the other hand is a commonly spoken and understood language all over the place, and English media gets around pretty much everywhere except North Korea. | ||
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bittman
Australia8759 Posts
On October 30 2013 08:10 Cheren wrote: I think credit hours work differently, in the US and probably Canada 18 hours means 18 hours of lecture, and then 2-3 hours of studying/homework per hour of lecture. Assuming it's something like what we have in Australia. At the college I teach, we only have 3 hours face to face time for any given subject/unit. However we expect a workload of something like 9 hours per week per unit. Meaning a full time student may only have 12 hours face to face, but they are expected to do 36 hours of work with assessments and study. Of course it's different for different institutions and levels of qualification. But obviously it's probably a bit different around the world. | ||
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Maur
Spain63 Posts
On October 30 2013 08:10 Cheren wrote: I think credit hours work differently, in the US and probably Canada 18 hours means 18 hours of lecture, and then 2-3 hours of studying/homework per hour of lecture. Well, first year computer science in my uni means 24 hours/week of lectures. Don't know how many hours are we supposed to study at home tbh | ||
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JacobShock
Denmark2485 Posts
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Challengerr
Canada20 Posts
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mrRoflpwn
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