There was a time when not being able to speak French would make you look uneducated or not having perfect accent of Russian in my country could cause a worse attitude of upper class people. Nobody knows what if our children will have to speak Arabic or Chinese because they will be languages of highly developed countries. The matter is people should be flexible and use any opportunity to educate themselves.

Why we dont think that it is a shame not to know anything in the language of the country which became our home if even for a very short period of time? And why some English native speakers pick on the accent of non-native speakers when they cant say a word at least in one of the languages that non-native speaker use.

Lets study new languages, at the end it is a good excercise for brains.