Non-Native English Challenges

What happens to me occasionally is that I stutter in my own language, people assume I'm not a native speaker and switch to English to help me. :)

As a foreigner you have lived a significant amount of time in England, people with little mastery of the language can be very annoying. It is frustrating to exchange with people who don’t understand slowed down conversational English. Also global english is a myth. In my experience people somewhat understand other speakers of their native language who mispronounce following similar patterns and can somewhat mimic the mistakes of other foreigners while inferring an often incorrect meaning from th

As a native non-English English speaker, I can see that. (Thinking it in an English accent helps.)

Yes one of the thing us native english speakers forget is how easy it is to speak English badly and get by - with many other languages unless you have a good grasp of the language nobody has any idea what you are trying to say.

Different cultures, different speech styles. I've noticed a lot of non-native English speakers tend to greatly misinterpret language nuances.

If someone speaks in an unexpected accent, even if it's an unambiguous and internally coherent accent so that it's perfectly possible to understand it it takes a few seconds for well-meaning natives to adjust to. It does get tiresome to have to repeat yourself. You want to at least get to the level that if you talk to someone, it registers as English immediately.

I bet you haven't seriously communicated with others in a language that is not native to you. You'll probably end up doing similar things if you have to.

False. Even native English speakers have occasional problems communicating.

Not everyone is a native English speaker. I am not and probably sound as weird. If it makes sense though who cares?

Cheers! I'll keep that in mind. As a non-native speaker I sometimes miss the finer quirks of English, especially when it's subtly different from my mother tongue.