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A comment on Heavy Recruitment of Chinese Students Sows Discord on U.S. Campuses. Parent comment

Re:Heavy Recruitment of Chinese Students Sows Discord on U.S... by enraged_camel on Thursday March 17, 2016 @07:45PM (#11308625)
I've had projects where I was the only fluent English speaker, AND the rest of the team all spoke another language (the same one) and decided to communicate almost exclusively in that language.
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Re:Heavy Recruitment of Chinese Students Sows Discord on U.S... by bazqux2 on Thursday March 17, 2016 @09:03PM (#11309077)
The same happended to me. It was for an Accounting class in Australia. They switched to mandarin to make it easier on everyone else.
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Re:Heavy Recruitment of Chinese Students Sows Discord on U.S... by _lce0 on Thursday March 17, 2016 @09:49PM (#11309262)
On the other hand, what a great opportunity to learn another language!

A couple of weeks of duolinguo while using the language for daily talks will do the trick

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