You're always going to be an outsider if you can't speak the language, no matter where you go in the world. B1 is a reasonable level, as it's the bare minimum for doing day-to-day tasks in the local language.
I honestly can't image planning to live in any country for the long term without learning the local language to at least this level.
I wouldn't worry. The guide covers very basic material. It's stuff any undergrad genomics graduate should be able to recite from memory.
These aren't things you get by reading full chapters of an introductory textbook. These are the things you get from reading a few chapter summaries. (Of even just a book's intro.)
> To me it seems as if the article was written by an engineer. That's fine, but it also means that the thinking is quite biased.
It doesn't read to me as if it's written by an engineer. It reads to me as if it's written for engineers. A well written piece of introduction material bridges the gap between it's audiences, and must leave out significant detail.
That about sums it up. If it weren't for the Oder river, it would be hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. There are some places on the border where the only signs that you've changed countries are... the signs. (Specifically I'm thinking of Gorlitz/Zgorzelec.)
I know you can get herring in Bayern, and I know you can get a Weisswurst in Berlin. That doesn't change the fact that they're represented differently in the regional cuisines.
The cuisine up here in Berlin/Brandenburg is much closer to that of Poland than it is to that of Bavaria. I say that as a person who lives in Berlin with Polish roommate, and travels pretty regularly to visit friends in Munich.
So how does that change what's practical with regards to testing at major universities or high schools? The things that were possible then are still possible now.
Accommodations for those who have problems with writing has been a thing for a long time.
It's fascinating to see all the people here who are arguing that it is impossible to do what we did all the time in my step-daughter's childhood, my childhood, my parents' childhoods, my grandparents' childhoods, etc.
Developing fine motor control for cursive is actually improving cerebellar function. It turns out that the cerebellum is a general "organ" for fine control and synchronization of neural function across the brain. It is implicated in:
* Reading and responding to other people's emotions.
* Emotional regulation.
* Generalized sequencing.
* Musical ability.
* Counting.
* Following patterns.
While you may see it as a waste, you may very well have benefited in significant ways from learning it at a young age.
I don't see why. A lot of Western Poland used to be German, and it's not like there's one German cuisine either. You don't get many Bavarians eating pickled herring with beets, but's it's classic cuisine in Berlin.
It's a misuse because in this context the hyphen could be mis-construed as a negative amount, and this causes the reader to stop and carefully re-read the content to ensure that they're not misinterpreting it. That's not where you want to be spending your reader's attention.
My experience in consumer banking says that every instrument specifies the precision of the calculation, how and when rounding happens, and slew of
little details.
So, yes, everyone has to understand how all their partners are doing rounding and summing.