"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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writes:

I see you've had little experience with foreign born technical
people.

I teach them English, so I have years of experience with them.

If they are young enough, their English spelling and grammar may
become "fluent", but not likely withoug formal instruction and
very unlikely if their native language is very different from
English as in Chinese or Farsi.

They need not be young, and I know people who have become completely
bilingual
in adulthood. It's mostly a matter of motivation, and practice.

Their conversational English will be OK, but their written English
will be full of strange grammatical constructions and word use.

Not if they are smart and motivated.


Why do they need to be smart, motivated, taught and invest in a good bit of
practice?

Only yesterday you were insisting good English and spelling was a simple
matter of intelligence.