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I've met a ton of Indians

None of them learn to speak English

Some of their third or fourth generation kids speak English pretty well

But NONE of the first generation ones do.

Which is weird because I know plenty of Europeans who taught themselves English who are almost fluent in the language. I myself became fluent in Korean, so much so that when I answer the phone, native Koreans don't realize they're talking to an American. And I've met first-generation Koreans who speak English like a native. I've heard Japanese natives speak actual English too (not the English they learn in school, but English as we actually use it.)

Even African slaves picked up our language pretty quick. "Eubonics" is really a primitive form of English spoken at the time they were enslaved. They don't get the more advanced and nuanced concepts but they get most of it. It's a fully functional language.

Yet NONE of the first generation Indians can speak English. NONE. I've worked with supposedly brilliant Indians from the highest caste and they can't even learn how to pronounce the most basic words natively. It's always this weird form of English with a broken pronunciation and intonation and a strange vocabulary. It's not even English-English, like some people from other countries learn and then find they're having a hard time in American and realize they learned the wrong dialect. No, it's a broken form of basic English that doesn't even work as a complete language.

Have you noticed that or is it just me?

Why is that?