Hello Herman!

16 May 05 15:02, Herman Trivilino wrote to Gerrit Kuehn:


 GK>> Sounds like you're working as a teacher.

 HT> Yup.  Teach freshman and sophomore level introductory physics at 
 HT> College of the Mainland (www.com.edu).  It's a community college.  An 
 HT> institution found only in SOME English-speaking countries!

I must admit that I'm not very familiar with those terms. "community
college" means that the community (city, county, whatever) pays for
it?

 GK>> I always had difficulties to understand what a /textbook/ in
 GK>> English speaking countries really is. There is a faint memory
 GK>> that it had something to do with the "audience". Textbooks
 GK>> are for undergraduate students, or something like that?

 HT> What's a textbook in non-English speaking countries?!

I don't know, since I'm still unsure about the exact meaning. ;)
To me, a textbook sounds like a book with text in it, so the name is quite
redundant. Is my guess about the audience correct? If that's the case, I
don't know good German words to distinguish book for "basic" and
for "advanced" studies. Well, a "basic" book is
sometimes called "Lehrbuch" (which translates to something like
"teach book"), but that's all I can come up with.


Regards,
Gerrit

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