I've made a few observations on classroom dynamics since lessons started.

The Indian students are a lively bunch. They're always rowdy or cracking jokes.

The Chinese are less rowdy and more serious, and make noise mostly because they wanna discuss the points of the lesson with each other.

The Vietnamese students sit quietly and listen, and so do the South Africans and the Russian.

The Singaporeans are quiet too but, at least for me, that may be because they are stoning.

English is occasionally heard during lessons. Most of the time, Chinese, Vietnamese and Hindi are flying around in liberal amounts as the foreign students discuss among themselves. They sit together too, with the Chinese and Indian students forming the 2 largest clumps. I've spoken to some of the foreign students and they are generally nice.

There is the occasional communications breakdown when the Chinese and Indian students speak in English to one another. The Chinese students have difficulty expressing themselves while some of the Indian students have fairly thick accents. Even then, this doesn't stop them from mingling with each other. I find this admirable, since in SMU most of the foreign students kept to themselves.

Our lecturers are Singaporean, and have so far shown a lot of patience in teaching due to the diverse backgrounds of the students. As some students do not have a good command of English, they make it a point to explain everything in as simplistic terms as possible. This also helps the majority who do not have a background in business, as many of these terms are foreign to us as well.

So far so good... but wait till the harder topics come out. Then we might be screwed. =P