Being exposed to different people who speak different languages, makes me want to come back to my old self, telling her not to be so hard on herself.

And I also want to go back to tell everybody that, " Look, you'd get by without trying to sound British. It may impress one or two but most of the time, will leave people confused. It also doesn't mean that you're stupid if you can't have a British accent. "

English has been the international lingua franca at least from the 21st century to today. Yet these days, with the slow shift to the power house of economy, is it going to be the same in the future?

From what I know, day to day, if I have a business, I would want to start learning Mandarin, Japanese and Korean. Heck, even these days some people write instructions in Russian because now, Alexander from a village you never heard of in Russia is moving all around the world. Do they speak English? well sort-of, but mostly a broken one. This is why, they certainly could understand better if the instructions are in Russian. Hence people are making attempt to cater to them by writing the instructions and notice in Russian.

Back to present, now meeting alexanders, every manuels, tom, dick, harry in a country with a non-alphabetic script and they speak with 4 different tones. We all sort of have to adjust.

For us and them, we want to communicate to get our things done. So, since there is an imbalance between our English, broken English is the standard. Broken English does not mean it's a bad English. It just is English that are non-standarised and it might be that this English has one of these.

may be fragmented, incomplete, and/or marked by faulty syntax and inappropriate diction because the speaker's knowledge of the vocabulary isn't as robust as a native speaker. source

Even from my experience, I realized that knowing too many vocabulary and advanced English sometimes can't get my message across. It leaves the other person bewildered and frustration on my part. However though, broken English works in a country where they don't speak English as their official language.

I would say, "no spicy", " going where?", and they would say something like, " we not want". There are also some pronunciation issues but one thing I know is that they don't go around saying,

Sorry my English is bad

They would continue these despite sometimes, there are being corrected here and there.

I notice that I also don't go around saying, my Thai/whatever language I know is bad. I realized that even natives from Thai, Spanish,etc they don't mock me if I make grammatically mistake. They know it's not my first language and I am still learning.

Why can't we do the same with English learner and non-native speakers who are trying to communicate in English?

Although often, these mockery comes from our peers and back home, it comes from other students who feel superior that they know grammatically correct English and can speak like natives. I am sure if they've been outside the country by now, they'll know that sometimes it doesn't matter especially when they visit countries where the people don't even speak English. Maybe along the way, some people would just assume that the speaker grew up in an English speaking country or some sort. But that's about it.

The main takeaway is that, never apologize for it. Just keep learning and don't start a paragraph with, sorry my English is bad....