Re: Darby's CCIE Interview Guestimates:

From: Narbik Kocharians (narbikk@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Jan 19 2009 - 14:32:35 ARST

I think the questions in the CCIE LAB exam should be in multiple languages
at the same time and they should mix it as well such that within the same
sentence you would see 10 different languages, so one word will be in
Arabic, the second word in Latin and so forth. Now....that's what i
call challenging.

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Marko Milivojevic <markom@markom.info>wrote:

> 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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