Yeah, that&#x27;s definitely true. My brother is an applied linguistics grad student, so I&#x27;ve heard this before.<p>I&#x27;ve had instructors who had accents but could still speak English very well, and many people just dismissed them outright as unintelligible without even trying.<p>But I&#x27;ve also had instructors who just weren&#x27;t fluent in English (mostly grad student instructors). When VanillaSwirls said they didn&#x27;t speak English well, that&#x27;s what I was thinking of.