The student of languages in me loves this thread by Lambda School employees explaining why they work at Lambda School, in several languages they didn’t grow up speaking.https://twitter.com/mckaywrigley/status/1112086003420807168 …
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(Language learning is, relevantly to Lambda School’s interests, an existence proof that it is possible to teach a difficult skill to an adult learner and that universities are absolutely rubbish at this despite having departments dedicated to it.)
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(No, seriously, only about ~10% of majors in non-Western languages who are not heritage speakers achieve sufficient proficiency to function in a business environment, at the US’ best schools.)
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Couldn’t let Lambda School have all the fun:pic.twitter.com/gSVMrsCrIQ
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Transcription / translation, with the hesitation noises removed.pic.twitter.com/zozbDwgebE
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Replying to @patio11
It's a great mission to remove obstacles for international business! Especially crucial for small businesses. I was wondering why Stripe is hiring remote, but only in North America (https://stripe.com/jobs/listing/integration-engineer/463083 … ). I guess international hiring is still hard and expensive.
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