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<blockquote data-quote="Cam" data-source="post: 280619" data-attributes="member: 568"><p>Chinese students had the most trouble with the language barrier from what I saw. I won't argue with that. I think Chinese and English are among the most dissimilar languages. That being said, they seemed to be the only one that struggled that much. All Indians I met were completely fluent, even if they had never set foot in the US. Most of the people I've met from South Asia were like that. Koreans were less fluent (I helped one friend edit a lot of her reports to proper English), but were still much better at the language than Chinese. You might be able to make theories about level of access to English media in these countries or something. Outside of Asia, students from Africa, South America, or the Middle East might have come in with strong accents, but we never had too much trouble communicating unless we were in a loud bar. Personally, I found it kind of cool to be the only fluently monolingual person in a group project, it widens your world and culture perspective which is very important. All that being said, I think people on this board are really overestimating the number of international students. Only 1,626 out of 15,142 undergrads are foreign. That's 10.7%. Georgia students make up nearly 60% of the student population (9,045/15,142). Seems like they're taking care of their home grown to me. What would be ideal for people saying the pendulum has swung too far?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cam, post: 280619, member: 568"] Chinese students had the most trouble with the language barrier from what I saw. I won't argue with that. I think Chinese and English are among the most dissimilar languages. That being said, they seemed to be the only one that struggled that much. All Indians I met were completely fluent, even if they had never set foot in the US. Most of the people I've met from South Asia were like that. Koreans were less fluent (I helped one friend edit a lot of her reports to proper English), but were still much better at the language than Chinese. You might be able to make theories about level of access to English media in these countries or something. Outside of Asia, students from Africa, South America, or the Middle East might have come in with strong accents, but we never had too much trouble communicating unless we were in a loud bar. Personally, I found it kind of cool to be the only fluently monolingual person in a group project, it widens your world and culture perspective which is very important. All that being said, I think people on this board are really overestimating the number of international students. Only 1,626 out of 15,142 undergrads are foreign. That's 10.7%. Georgia students make up nearly 60% of the student population (9,045/15,142). Seems like they're taking care of their home grown to me. What would be ideal for people saying the pendulum has swung too far? [/QUOTE]
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