Location: CLHA
Date: 14:00-16:00 Monday, May 12nd, 2008
Professor: A. Mohammed
On this Monday, I signed up a mathematic lecture. The reason I chose the lecture about math was that I like math so much; however, before I went to the lecture hall, I thought the lecture hall would be hot, and it would be appropriate sleeping in the lecture hall. After I went into the lecture hall, I felt a little bit cold. The lecture hall was smaller than other lecture halls I had ever seen before, but it was still full of students. The professor was not too old. I thought that he is a funny professor. In the lecture, the professor wanted to talk about the “function”. I decided not to sleep. Actually, he was the professor who has the worst English pronunciation that I had ever encountered. I thought his mother language is not English because of his name.
During his lecture, the only thing that he used was projector; therefore, I could just watch the screen. Some words were spoken frequently from the professor, and I could understand clearly, for example, domain, range, positive infinity and some numbers. Most of content that I could understand was from the screen and my imagination. I have been learning that math when I was studying in high school. That math is simple for me. I can understand most of them. In his lecture, he just talked about few exercise from the textbook. The whole lecture was about how to calculate the domain and the range for the functions, and compare with them.
As I could see, most students were seem to be interested in his lecture; however, some students were eating and chatting with their friends. Several students asked many questions after the professor finished one section.
After this lecture, I was afraid that I could not understand what they say if I attent these kinds of professor when I go to university. I felt nervous because I was afraid that a non-English native speaker would teach me later. I hoped I can adjust their style and accent
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I think you will find that when you take a course from a non-native English speaker professor, you will get accustomed to his or her accent pretty quickly. Think about the vocabulary of a lecture: you have a lot of the same, special words happening over and over. If the guy pronounces words like "domain" and "function" and "range" in weird ways, you'll recognize that quickly.
I can remember, in university, situations like that, where my professor was Russian or something liek that, and I would learn those words for the first time in his or her class. I would think they were pronouncing them correctly, since I only ever heard those words said aloud by that professor! later, I would find out differently . . .
Keep trying with the lectures. When you find a good professor lecturing on a topic you already know about, you will be amazed at how good your English will suddenly be!
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