<p>I'm a international.Native language of my country is not english.I know english but I'm probably going to get nervous start talking too fast at interview.In that case my native language is hard to understand but my english is impossible to understand when I'm talking like that.I'm taking toefl&sat1&sat2 to prove my english skills.
Do you think asking interviewer to make interview in my native language will be a mistake?
If the reason of interview to know the person better language shouldn't be important</p>
<p>I don’t really know if the interviewer will accept that, but you can ask her/him.</p>
<p>I think the speaking part of the TOEFL is harder than chating with the interviewer!</p>
<p>What is you TOEFL score ? If you get above 90, then you will definately do fine using English in your interiview.</p>
<p>Which country are you from, just curious!
English is not my first language too, and I will be speaking English in my interview.</p>
<p>You don’t need to take SAT I though. Non native speaker are not required to take SAT I.</p>
<p>I recommend watching news and movies to get some speaking skills.</p>
<p>I hope this helps</p>
<p>I don’t have problem in toelf because I had lots of chances.If i fail at first I can try again and again.But interview is one time thing.I get nervous.When I get nervous I start speaking fast.I’m not sure even if we speak in my native language I can speak properly.Speaking english makes it harder to keep calm :)</p>
<p>btw I’m from Cyprus.</p>
<p>Hmm, I don’t know. I understand it’s stressful, but your interviewer is going to want to make sure that your English is good enough to learn complicated math with it.</p>
<p>When I went to the interview session to become an interviewer, we discussed how to handle interviews in other countries. The Educational Counselor director suggested that the beginning of the interview should take place in the local language (making traditional greetings more polite and comfortable) but that the majority of the interview should be conducted in English.</p>
<p>So I grew up in Taiwan, and I had like 8 or so interviews during my application cycle and I remember one EC explicitly saying that, “although it would probably be more culturally appropriate and more personal if we spoke in Chinese, we should have the interview in English because that’s the language you’ll be using in your classes and in the States.”</p>
<p>Of course, I said that I went to an American school and it would be fine, but yeah all of the interviews I had were in English and my friends’ (who went to traditional Chinese schools all 12 years) were too. I haven’t heard of anyone being able to have an interview in Chinese for an US college because I think language proficiency is definitely something that is assessed (or at least looked at) for international students.</p>
<p>I feel like you should relax if you can and just go with it - I would advise practicing in English and doing the interview in English, since if you get in you’ll definitely run into a LOT of opportunities (interviewing for UROP spots, talking with professors) where you’ll have no choice but to use English.</p>
<p>Thank you all , specially the last two posts was very helpful.Yep, sooner of later I have to face this.I better start working on fixing my talking problems.</p>
<p>Thank you…</p>
<p>Speaking here as an international interviewer, one of the things that MIT specifically asks us to check is that the candidates spoken English is good enough for MIT. All of the classes at MIT are conducted in English. Therefore, MIT needs to know that a student has a sufficient grasp of spoken English to be able to understand, and (in many classes) contribute to an ongoing discussion of a topic area in English.</p>
<p>The interview will be conducted in English. As LauraN observes, using local language to set up the interview, to conduct brief introductions and the like is fine and may well happen, but the overwhelming bulk of the actual interview is definitely an English interview. To do otherwise is a violation of Educational Council rules.</p>