From: Darby Weaver (ccie.weaver@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Jan 19 2009 - 15:02:18 ARST
Actually the fairest thing to do would be to administer the test in more
than just English. At least 5 or 10 major languages that are prominent in a
given region at a minium.
There are CCIE's across the globe now and 75% of them probably do not speak
English as their native language.
Fair is Fair.
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Narbik Kocharians <narbikk@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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.
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> 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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