@andylaurel
You've brought up a good point. Japan is a country where a foreigner gets a rockstar treatment even for knowing 3 words of its language. We would rarely tell foreigners that they have a bad accent, except maybe as a joke at a drinking party.
The U.S. isn't like that (if that's where you're from). I write essays, poems, research papers in English. I've delivered speeches impromptu at social gatherings in America. But I've never received a rockstar treatment for doing those things over there.
