Peter Dohm writes:

A high percentage of the Spanish speaking population is highly educated and
highly litterate. They simply have the same problem in English that I have
in Spanish--they started learning it much too late. It is easy to become
fully proficient (and free of obvious accents) in a new language as a child,
diffecult as an adolescent, and frequently unsuccessfull as an adult.

That's entirely incorrect. I _teach_ English, and anyone can learn it at any
age ... if he wants to. What you describe is the standard excuse for people
who are too lazy to learn English. And highly educated, highly literate
people usually already speak English, as that is part of an education today
throughout the world.

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