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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: est1895 on June 04, 2015, 07:30:42 pm

Title: Tired of Paying High Tuition Fees?
Post by: est1895 on June 04, 2015, 07:30:42 pm
Try getting your degree in Germany!  The tuition is Free!

Have a look:

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32821678
Title: Re: Tired of Paying High Tuition Fees?
Post by: Scourge of Ages on June 04, 2015, 07:35:48 pm
Moving to and living in Germany: Not free.

Also, this is the spammiest-looking thread title I've seen that was (probably) not blatantly spam.
Title: Re: Tired of Paying High Tuition Fees?
Post by: deathfun on June 04, 2015, 11:16:59 pm
Moving to and living in Germany: Not free.

Also, this is the spammiest-looking thread title I've seen that was (probably) not blatantly spam.

But wait! If you call within the next twenty minutes...
Title: Re: Tired of Paying High Tuition Fees?
Post by: pecenipicek on June 05, 2015, 06:12:45 am
Moving to and living in Germany: Not free.

Also, this is the spammiest-looking thread title I've seen that was (probably) not blatantly spam.
considering who its from? Might as well be.
Title: Re: Tired of Paying High Tuition Fees?
Post by: Vrets on June 05, 2015, 08:58:10 am
Maybe so, but according to my american education the Germans are a frightening, pretzel-obsessed people.
Title: Re: Tired of Paying High Tuition Fees?
Post by: Cyborg17 on June 05, 2015, 09:04:42 am
But we'd have to learn German, to understand the professors, right?
Title: Re: Tired of Paying High Tuition Fees?
Post by: Vrets on June 05, 2015, 09:10:00 am
But we'd have to learn German, to understand the professors, right?

I know, that's the wurst part.

...

Solution: major in Engineering, where lecture attendance is counter-productive and only wastes study and project time!

Title: Re: Tired of Paying High Tuition Fees?
Post by: The E on June 05, 2015, 09:16:22 am
But we'd have to learn German, to understand the professors, right?

Depends. Most Universities offer the programs most interesting to foreign students in english as well as in german; It's not the professors you have to worry about as much as the people you're going to be living with. I would imagine it gets pretty lonely pretty fast if you can't navigate daily life in Germany, and without speaking german, you're probably not going to get that far.
Title: Re: Tired of Paying High Tuition Fees?
Post by: Klaustrophobia on June 05, 2015, 02:32:04 pm
I took three years of German in high school.  Even at the end of year 3, before any atrophy kicked in, there is no way I could hold a conversation in German.  Probably not even enough to get by at the most basic level. 
Title: Re: Tired of Paying High Tuition Fees?
Post by: rubixcube on June 05, 2015, 06:39:47 pm
Well you could always vote Bernie Sanders for president  ;)
Title: Re: Tired of Paying High Tuition Fees?
Post by: pecenipicek on June 05, 2015, 07:21:11 pm
I took three years of German in high school.  Even at the end of year 3, before any atrophy kicked in, there is no way I could hold a conversation in German.  Probably not even enough to get by at the most basic level. 
Thrust me, you'll learn the basics very rapidly simply to not be left out of the general "i need to buy **** to eat" and "oh **** its raining, how is the thrice damned umbrella called in german".

source? had 3 trips to germany last year. granted, 10 (6 in elementary, 4 in high-school) years of half-hearted study before at least ground some basic understanding of the language in my head...
Title: Re: Tired of Paying High Tuition Fees?
Post by: Dragon on June 05, 2015, 10:44:21 pm
In the eastern part, at least, I heard you could get by surprisingly well if you only know Polish and English. :) The only times I was in Germany itself was when travelling to some other country (Switzerland, France, or returning to Poland from Denmark), so I haven't had much experience with it, but it does seem that English alone is insufficient even in places like McCafe next to a highway. I managed to place an order with the help of the guide, but it wasn't very easy and involved lots of loud, slow speech and pointing at signs above the counter. :) That said, from what I've seen of German physics students, they seem to know English quite well (it's pretty much a given if you want to go anywhere in this field, scientific papers in general aren't translated too often).
Title: Re: Tired of Paying High Tuition Fees?
Post by: StarSlayer on June 05, 2015, 11:06:25 pm
But we'd have to learn German, to understand the professors, right?

Depends. Most Universities offer the programs most interesting to foreign students in english as well as in german; It's not the professors you have to worry about as much as the people you're going to be living with. I would imagine it gets pretty lonely pretty fast if you can't navigate daily life in Germany, and without speaking german, you're probably not going to get that far.

I can't just look really, really sad and say "Ich bin ein Berliner" until some caring soul takes pity and teaches me ze Deutsch?