Now I wanna know which elementary school you went to because they certainly didn’t teach me English in mine; also about twenty years ago.
In fact, I didn’t learn jack shit about English from school, I pretty much taught myself after getting in contact with the language at a young age through my relatives. As far as I can remember I only started having English classes in middle school.
It’s true that a certain proficiency of the language is expected in the IT field but I’m a sysadmin and have more than enough colleagues that can’t really speak English, they know the IT lingo but that’s about it. I guess every company handles things differently when it comes to that; I wasn’t even asked of my English skills during my job interview.
Some rural place down in BaWü. The headmaster wasn’t even a fan of advanced education. I wonder how state policy may have had an impact on this. Maybe BaWü was just more bent on being internationally attractive in its education policies?
Also, my current employer’s company has been internationally active and accordingly multilingual for over two decades too, from what I hear, so that might introduce additional bias.
I guess it boils down to “our country is too diverse to allow sweeping generalisations”. I am glad to learn your perspective on this :)
Now I wanna know which elementary school you went to because they certainly didn’t teach me English in mine; also about twenty years ago.
In fact, I didn’t learn jack shit about English from school, I pretty much taught myself after getting in contact with the language at a young age through my relatives. As far as I can remember I only started having English classes in middle school.
It’s true that a certain proficiency of the language is expected in the IT field but I’m a sysadmin and have more than enough colleagues that can’t really speak English, they know the IT lingo but that’s about it. I guess every company handles things differently when it comes to that; I wasn’t even asked of my English skills during my job interview.
Some rural place down in BaWü. The headmaster wasn’t even a fan of advanced education. I wonder how state policy may have had an impact on this. Maybe BaWü was just more bent on being internationally attractive in its education policies?
Also, my current employer’s company has been internationally active and accordingly multilingual for over two decades too, from what I hear, so that might introduce additional bias.
I guess it boils down to “our country is too diverse to allow sweeping generalisations”. I am glad to learn your perspective on this :)
Same here, funnily enough
What year? Mine was 2003, I think. Apparently it was just introduced back then (second heading, second paragraph).
I think mine was 2004