[Barrie Yates]

Looks as though his command of the English Language is sadly lacking - not enough effort put into the 3 Rs? Could that be the child's lack of ability or the teaching quality/methods?
In my experience of working with 3rd world workers for some 20 years or so, in general they do not seem to have too much trouble in speaking basic English whilst I had great difficulty in picking up very basic ME and Eastern languages - and I got kicked out of French after the third year.