Sol-Tech launches first IT qualifications

am-user said:
Vuil taal bestaan hoofsaaklik uit drie en vier letter woorde.

Afrikaanse rekenaarterme is gewoonlik beskrywend en so omslagtig dat meer as vier letters benodig word om die begrip te kommunikeer.
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for sure mate, however

verwer kers? a painters solution to loadshedding
me gag repe? standard response to any form of s*xual abuse
band wydte? you'd utter at a tyre store

i couldnt care less who learns what in which language, afrikaans is one of the ten dead official languages useful anywhere else in the world
 
BlackStatic said:
MEGAGREPE

VERWERKERS

BANDWYDTE

VASTESTAATAANDRYWING

SVE VERKOELER

LEES SLEGS GEHEUE

Despite being Afrikaans I must have Anglo blood in me because I will jump out of the window if I have to study IT in Afrikaans. I still cannot believe my siter did an entire legal degree in this language. It's the Dark Souls of education language.

And then you speak to a Dutch speaking person and they say you sound like a drunk baby.
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Please translate :laugh:
I think the only one I got was Bandwidth.... and perhaps read only memory
 
Skerminkel said:
It is actually easier to start programming in Afrikaans. You can name variables in Afrikaans to prevent confusion with code.
It is better for you brain to learn in more than one language as well.
Well done to SolTech.
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Why would I name variables in Afrikaans? I know that variable, function naming & class naming is annoying but using another language should not be necessary
 
IT_Steven said:
Criticism or observation?
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Little bit of both I suppose. Is more certification mills needed? Or are they merely trying to get legitimacy in the IT world? Then again, I've never really understood why these places exist. Either you are doing the cert to validate knowledge, in which case it's pointless having classes. Or, if you're learning to try and get the knowledge, you'll be better served using a PC at home and self-study. These places teach you to pass the exam, they don't teach the why - and to be fair, they can't. Can't squeeze all that info into a 3 day course.

Much better use case would be allowing students to learn on the job and then write exams as validation. I think there is a need for this - like We think Code - but based around the hardware/operations of an IT business. And with Sol-Tech doing apprenticeships in other fields, they would've been ideally suited to such a model. So I suppose I expected something different. Colour me disappointed.
 
You'd be surprised how far you will be able to manage to operate in Europe if you understand Afrikaans.

Dutch, German, Flemish and Swedish all have a lot of words in common with Afrikaans.
 
Apogee said:
You'd be surprised how far you will be able to manage to operate in Europe if you understand Afrikaans.

Dutch, German, Flemish and Swedish all have a lot of words in common with Afrikaans.
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As an afrikaans person living in the Netherlands - don't ask the cashier for a slippie.
 
chuckles_the_cnt said:
for sure mate, however

verwer kers? a painters solution to loadshedding
me gag repe? standard response to any form of s*xual abuse
band wydte? you'd utter at a tyre store

i couldnt care less who learns what in which language, afrikaans is one of the ten dead official languages useful anywhere else in the world
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你的标点符号比英文还死！ 中国为胜利
 
CT_Biker said:
Why would I name variables in Afrikaans? I know that variable, function naming & class naming is annoying but using another language should not be necessary
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For a beginner it is a challenge to distinguish between code and variable names. Using a different language for variables makes it easier.
 
no, not trolling, i dont see how learning techincal terms/concepts in afrikaans will be useful anywhere else but here, it's a difficult translate with a tiny userbase. it's great that it's available and hopefully purposeful somehow
 
Nerfherder said:
Please translate :laugh:
I think the only one I got was Bandwidth.... and perhaps read only memory
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I think megagreep is megabyte and verwerker is processor. Not sure about the other 2 you didn't mention.
 
Personally, I am glad I was not taught in my "native" language (isiXhosa). The world generally accepts English as the go-to language for things. Also, technical documentation is in English (sometimes Chinese, Japanese, and other Europe region languages). I suck at speaking isiXhosa; I have had a few people mistake me for a foreigner when I speak it. Some were shocked at how poorly I speak it though I was born and raised in the Eastern Cape.

I don't think there is anything bad about learning a second language; it can prove useful if you find yourself in a situation where you need to speak it. This reminds me of how some white farmers in the Eastern Cape can speak perfect isiXhosa - there is a good use-case for that. However, to do an entire qualification in another language, now that is something else.

I might consider learning French if I follow through with emigrating in 2023... still undecided.

The programme has a starting cost of R55,440 in the first year.
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Holy snaps... that will definitely hurt.
 
koeks525 said:
Personally, I am glad I was not taught in my "native" language (isiXhosa). The world generally accepts English as the go-to language for things. Also, technical documentation is in English (sometimes Chinese, Japanese, and other Europe region languages). I suck at speaking isiXhosa; I have had a few people mistake me for a foreigner when I speak it. Some were shocked at how poorly I speak it though I was born and raised in the Eastern Cape.

I don't think there is anything bad about learning a second language; it can prove useful if you find yourself in a situation where you need to speak it. This reminds me of how some white farmers in the Eastern Cape can speak perfect isiXhosa - there is a good use-case for that. However, to do an entire qualification in another language, now that is something else.

I might consider learning French if I follow through with emigrating in 2023... still undecided.


Holy snaps... that will definitely hurt.
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You can never ever go wrong with learning new languages, it's great! Hell I should try a new language every year and become one of those megabrain dudes who can speak 5 entirely different languages lol, except if it's Klingon, or Elvish, then people will just think you're crazy.
 
Apogee said:
You'd be surprised how far you will be able to manage to operate in Europe if you understand Afrikaans.

Dutch, German, Flemish and Swedish all have a lot of words in common with Afrikaans.
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you may be able to vaguely understand some things but explaining technical terminology using afrikaans to any native dutch, german, flemish, swedish person will be futile. the dutch view afrikaans as a drunk toddler language
 
chuckles_the_cnt said:
you may be able to vaguely understand some things but explaining technical terminology using afrikaans to any native dutch, german, flemish, swedish person will be futile. the dutch view afrikaans as a drunk toddler language
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It's the other way around. Dutch sounds like a drunk toddler language.
 
Apogee said:
You'd be surprised how far you will be able to manage to operate in Europe if you understand Afrikaans.

Dutch, German, Flemish and Swedish all have a lot of words in common with Afrikaans.
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Out of interest, do you have any experience in that?

Those counties also have perfectly good English, no need for the native language when speaking to someone from somewhere else.
 
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