Clickbait title, but it&#x27;s a real issue.  Having lived in China for the past 5+ years, I now speak English differently than I did back home in England. I rarely speak English with an English person. Even many Americans will find me easier to understand than they would have before I moved here.<p>Also &quot;The three of us embarked on an utterly unnecessary conversation in which I deftly translated from English into English and then back again.&quot; mirrors my own experience doing the same in a series of meetings with Chinese colleagues and Indian developers, all of whom had pretty good English, but were virtually unable to communicate with each other except by email.