[OT] Why we should be more patient with people learning English

Here in the West, meeting people who are new to the English language is a very common occurrence. We all hear people struggling with the language and we all react with varying degrees of patience to it. Some of us claim that we don't have any idea what the other person is saying while others seem to follow the other person fairly effortlessly. This video provides an argument for why we should be more patient:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lhxxiqqlQY [21 minutes]
The fact of the matter is that English is WEIRD. It has a lot of significant differences in it from the vast majority of languages. These differences are far more than just the words we use but the structure of the language and the way our grammar works compared to most other languages.
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Rhino