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I have a degree in CS, from a Polish university, and virtually all the course material was in Polish. That's a legal requirement, since I signed up for a degree

I have a degree in CS, from a Polish university, and virtually all the course material was in Polish. That's a legal requirement, since I signed up for a degree taught in Polish, and I can't be expected to speak English, even though I would be useless in real life if I didn't. An English version would be available, but it would probably be painful, considering how bad some of the teachers are at short phrases, let alone a semester's worth of lectures. Similarly, all my direct coworkers speak Polish, and that's the language we use to talk about technical matters. We do use English words randomly, and our code (comments and variables) and docs are in English, but nobody is complaining about people using their native language.

FirmwareBurner 3y ago
You're confusing two deferent things. I was talking about the language of technical IT terms, not which language you use at the course/school/university as of course that will almost always be the local language out of legal requirements. In your Polish courses do you use translated Polish words for all the IT technical terms, or the original English ones?
- p_l 3y ago
  It's a mix. General terms will be usually in Polish, in some older textbooks or other materials you can encounter really different terms that relate to different era. Things like "Zbiór danych" (or just "zbiór") instead of "plik" - which translate to "data set" Vs "file"
- eternauta3k 3y ago
  What are examples of technical IT terms you use in English instead of translating them?
miki123211 3y ago
I also have a degree in CS from a Polish university, but my degree was actually taught in English. I had a pretty good understanding of CS before I started college, so I assumed that a degree in English would be better because of how prevalent English is in this field. I... was wrong. Most professors were not great at speaking the language. Funnily enough, the average student, whether Polish or otherwise, was far better at it than the average professor. Most of the course materials we had were direct translations of their Polish equivalents, usually done by the professors themselves, despite the fact that far higher-quality materials in English were available on the internet. Some of the translations were subtly wrong, one professor consistently used compresion[sic] when he actually meant conversion and twice when he meant times. I've even seen words, error messages and documentation snippets that were translated to Polish in the original materials, and then (badly) translated back to English.

FirmwareBurner 3y ago

You're confusing two deferent things. I was talking about the language of technical IT terms, not which language you use at the course/school/university as of course that will almost always be the local language out of legal requirements. In your Polish courses do you use translated Polish words for all the IT technical terms, or the original English ones?

p_l 3y ago
It's a mix. General terms will be usually in Polish, in some older textbooks or other materials you can encounter really different terms that relate to different era. Things like "Zbiór danych" (or just "zbiór") instead of "plik" - which translate to "data set" Vs "file"
eternauta3k 3y ago
What are examples of technical IT terms you use in English instead of translating them?

miki123211 3y ago

I also have a degree in CS from a Polish university, but my degree was actually taught in English. I had a pretty good understanding of CS before I started college, so I assumed that a degree in English would be better because of how prevalent English is in this field. I... was wrong. Most professors were not great at speaking the language. Funnily enough, the average student, whether Polish or otherwise, was far better at it than the average professor. Most of the course materials we had were direct translations of their Polish equivalents, usually done by the professors themselves, despite the fact that far higher-quality materials in English were available on the internet. Some of the translations were subtly wrong, one professor consistently used compresion[sic] when he actually meant conversion and twice when he meant times. I've even seen words, error messages and documentation snippets that were translated to Polish in the original materials, and then (badly) translated back to English.