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@limburger Writing a thesis in English is an almost academic standard. You do it so that you reach the greatest audience possible and that is, unfortunately, to write in English. One of my professors refers to Louis Agassiz as the Arch Plagiarist because he was hailed as the father of Ice Ages and global glaciations simply because he noticed all the authors in his native Switzerland were not writing in English and thus none of their work was known outside of Switzerland…so he copied it and got away with it… As for teaching in English in the Netherlands, I could understand it were it an English class, but not if it were art or literature… Knowing multiple languages, however, is something I think everyone should do. I don’t think it even matters what language. I’m trying to learn Norwegian, my younger brother is trying to learn Welsh. Neither are very ‘useful’ in an international sense, but they are useful skills.

@blinky465 Usually the translations aren’t the most accurate to the original intent, though… I have tried just about everything to get myself to sleep, but short of the rubber mallet to the head nothing has worked well yet. 😛