text: how do foreign students manage to study in english universities when their english is so poor? i'm just curious because a female friend married a foreign man a few years ago.  he moved to england but spoke very little english.  he already had a undergraduate degree from his home country so he started studying for an msc in a london university, then he went on to do an mba.  he passed both with flying colours.  but, although his english has improved, it does not seem to have improved enough to excel, as he did, in an english university.  for example, he asked me to proofread his cv recently and it included these sentences: "willing to under taking any nececerry father training"; "i am being peasant physical fit i having responsible enjoys challange job pride in job done".  many of his friends possess a similar standard of english and have also either studied or are studying at english universities.  do foreign students get translators throughout their university studies?  do they not need to prove they can adequately communicate in english?  basically... how do they do it? i always wondered that myself.  maybe the professors cut them a break with their punctuations, spelling etc. they know they're foreign students.  they handicap them.