NY Times article - TAs who can't speak english

Colleges and Universities A-Z Cornell University
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<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/24/education/24assistant.html?hp&ex=1119672000&en=df43edc6573c5b69&ei=5094&partner=homepage%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/24/education/24assistant.html?hp&ex=1119672000&en=df43edc6573c5b69&ei=5094&partner=homepage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>NY Times just ran an article about how there are many TAs - particularly in the hard sciences - who can't speak English very well. Is this a big problem at Cornell? The article makes it out to be "acute" nationwide.</p>

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<p>no it's not. all my TAs speaky da english very goood</p>

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<p>Most of mine speak it well also.</p>

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<p>Only a few TA's can't speak English well. Your main problem is encountering new accents you haven't heard before as it'll take awhile to understand them.</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.ratemyprofessors.com%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.ratemyprofessors.com&lt;/a> seems like a good resource for this issue when you choose classes.</p>