Two years ago, at a time where I could easily understand the things on the internet I got a scientific book in english. The book has a high amount of technical terms that simply weren't strongly in my vocabular.
Phrases like "wax and wane" simply didn't gave me a fast understanding of the things that got said.
A college professor could very well use a scientific vocabular that difficult to understand for your friend.
Even in my own native language I have sometimes problems understanding a prof if that prof uses to much words where I have no associations with those words.
What is your friend studying?
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