From: Marko Milivojevic (markom@markom.info)
Date: Mon Jan 19 2009 - 13:33:24 ARST
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 15:16, Darby Weaver <ccie.weaver@gmail.com> wrote:
> You see that always puzzled me how people who can't read English actually
> pass the lab and do so with apparent ease.
That's "easy". First of all, passive command of the language is not
the same as "active use". I will give you my personal example.
I perfectly read and can understand written and most of oral
Icelandic. However, I can't speak it fluently (I sound like a 7-year
old kid of foreign parents). I would have tremendous problem
explaining CCIE-level material in Icelandic. However, most of my
day-to-day work includes trouble tickets written in Icelandic that I
can read and act upon. I'm still network expert in Iceland :-).
There are people who can read and probably write well enough in
English. They can understand technical literature in English with some
difficulty. However, those people may have a problem speaking English.
That makes them no less network experts.
While I support the interview approach in general, we should really
remember that English is not even a second language for some. Sure, we
should all do it, but there should also be world peace :-).
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