[Lampman]

Personally,I find the fact that people from the Indian sub-continent are unable to speak English a surprise.After all we did have a presence there for a couple of hundred years.
One reason may be that the immigrants may be largely uneducated in any way.This was explained to me once by a Newsagent,who thought that the influx of so called village dwellers was the problem.These people had received little education in their own countries so struggled once they came here;
before the PC brigade get on my case the Newsagent in question was himself from India.