How sweet , you posted this just for me . Thank you ! <| sep |> It is a skin , purely cosmetic . Also you ' re lucky to get anything that isn ' t trash already lol <| sep |> Soll er doch . Dann ist sein einziges Druckmittel dahin . Wir werden damit schon fertig . Danach gibts es dann Wirtschaftssanktionen gegen die Trkei . <| sep |> Except the examples you ' ve mentioned are the exception and not remotely the rule . Furthermore , if someone has spent an extended amount of time in a country arguably they are native speaker . That usually depends on how late in their life it was . Doing your entire education in English won ' t make you speak anything like native English unless you were also brought up speaking English at home . A lot of my students have opted to study their degrees in English , and while they ' re proficient they do not speak English like a native . CPE can ' t be passed by anyone without preparation usually because much of it is arbitrary logic tests , for example ordering paragraphs to fit dogmatic schemata when most native speakers couldn ' t give a shit about that . Nevertheless , a native teacher with knowledge of CPE is preferable to a nonnative . I ' m not saying there are no useful nonnative teachers , of course there are . Especially when it comes to preparing kids for examinations with very specific criteria . However , the idea that these countries are brimming with L 2 teachers who speak English at a native level is very arrogant to say the least . They are few and far between . It ' s virtually impossible for an L 2 speaker to surpass a native speaker in their natural mastery of the language .