I now work in the Applied Engslisn Dpt. of Shantou Polytechnic, where 8 foreign teachers are employed to teach Chinese students English language. At first I had thought they were all native speakers, at least from the English-speaking countries, while later I found some of them speak English as a second or third foreign language just as I do. It's certainly no problem that he or she can speak fluent English but the case is opposite. 

A black lady from Cameroon upset me with her poor vocabulary and strong African accent. The other day, she got off our school bus at the wrong destination and went crazy about the complicated route. I went to offer help and asked whether she liked to go home by bus or taxi. She  gestured for minutes but could not pull out the word at the tip of  the tongue, which really confused me more. It was not until she exulted over a motorbike passing by that  could  I realize she needed a motorbike.

One of my classes complained to me that they could hardly understand some foreing teacher's English. I know who they meant to. I used to talked to her for a whole afternoon but we didn't talk a lot because there was a tough obstacle between our communication in English. Indeed I sometimes mistook her English for a certain dialect rarely existing in Latin-America. For instance, she said "blice" instead of  "price" and "fee " instead of "three".

I truly hold the belief that it's just enough that we can use the language to communicate while beautiful  speaking is not a necessity. However, for an English  teacher, I don't think that would be enough. Sometimes I really feel sad that we would take foreign rubbish as precious exotic.