steelweaver | Ooh, shiny...

I'm easily distracted by visual signals. And 'lazy' use of English bugs me.

This makes my classes a bit of a challenge. I prefer my teachers to be visually neutral, without any garishly coloured outfits and preferably without too much pacing and fidgeting. It's hard to change your face though, hence the twenty minutes I spent yesterday looking at a male teacher who looked intriguingly like a woman. And not hearing half of what he said.

Also, now that more and more courses are given in English, I can't escape the impression that very few teachers are actually making an effort to speak English. The most common variety of the human language used by teachers in these courses is Low Dunglish, which is basically a kind of Dutch that is pronounced as English. Grammar and word choice are way off, and it is a pain to listen to. High Dunglish is used a bit less, this is the variety which has more English grammatical structures and slightly better pronunciation. The grammar is used much like a bunch of darts though, randomly thrown at the uttering just to see what sticks. I feel we're missing out on a lot of the smaller nuances here because the teachers can't fully express themselves in English.

Now I'll be the first to admit my English isn't perfect, despite AbstruseNJ's persistent claims that I am bilingual. I'm willing to ignore a lot of very bad English (hey, I'm a Dutch larper, what do you expect?), but when it comes to education, I feel standards should be higher than they are now.