Does Anyone Here Speak English?
Ever been stuck in a foreign country and not speak the language? You can probably get something to eat by pointing and smiling but you really hope that you won't actually need to communicate about anything more serious.
Too often, taking a software training course is like going to a foreign country. Software people, like all technology folk, love their special language. It makes them feel cool. They love acronyms, special terms, and anything that to make you feel like you've been caught in Lower Slobobia without a pocket dictionary. Of course, one out of ten people are good at learning these new languages. They're like that annoying friend who can learn a new language by ear about 15 minutes after the plane lands. Most people aren't so lucky.
Instead, they take one of two approaches when confronted by the barrage of new terms in class. Mostly, they just tune out and hope that eventually it will all stop. Talk of flex fields, accrual codes, process flows and alerts passes them by. They pray that at some point during the week they will actually learn something familiar, like how to make a journal entry. Others learn the terminology but have no idea what it means. Their sentences become random assemblies of new terms with no real understanding of what the terms mean. At least they feel cool.
In both cases, they often return from training not much better off then they started.
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