rozumiemnic: I am not a "bleeding heart liberal" (do you only deal in cliches?) I just find your tone racist, dishonest and patronising.
I was referring to myself as being one, it's something that I get accused of frequently on here ;)
rozumiemnic: I have no idea whether Mr Patel is a good English teacher, but I am sure you would be a better one if you didn't waste so much time here posturing as a fake liberal.
Fake liberal? I have no time for incompetence, but I'm still pretty damn liberal. I just don't think that the vast majority of English speaking Indians are suitable for teaching English in Europe - especially as most of them are simply students (visa! visa!) that are trying to pay off their loans after discovering that they can't get a part time job in Poland. For 40PLN an hour (which seems to be the going rate for a native speaker in Lublin) - you'd expect someone who is spot on, rather than someone who makes very strange mistakes. Funnily enough - I've found that in terms of writing, Nigerians tend to be spot on.
It might sound harsh, but many of them are conned into coming to Poland by an "agent" who promises them that it's the land of milk and honey - of course, the lack of work for them is never mentioned.
As for the Poles not understanding - they might very well believe that "Patel" is just an ordinary surname. I had no idea about Polish surnames before coming here - even "ski" was stereotypically Russian, not Polish for me.
(for what it's worth, you'll see that I've criticised native speakers too on here for making mistakes in their advertisements)
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