Talk Less, Do More?
I just read an article in the blog that I randomly found after clicking over a link in twitter page. It was quite interesting for me because the writer wrote exactly the same topic I have discussed with my Dutch classmate here in Rotterdam. She came to me with a question, why other Indonesian students were so quite in the class? Then I replied, maybe they feel their English was not good enough. She thought this was not the case, because she talked with them and they have good English, at least she could easily understand what they were talking. I came up with another answer, maybe they did not need to ask because they already know the answer, we are Indonesian, yes, we are small but we are not stupid. She smiled at me and told me that she thought that was not the answer. Then I gave up. However, I took her point. There are 11 out 26 of us, Indonesian, in the class. But like my friend said, we were never dominating the “noise”. We barely asked the questions and discussed the a