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[quote=Anonymous]My best foreign language teacher have not been native speakers. The best one was a linguist who speaks 8 languages, and 2nd best one was from some small country in African where they speak Portuguese or French, not even sure.
US does not have a culture of learning foreign languages. People keep claiming to Speak a 2nd language while many people in the word speak 3-4.  I have studied 7 and did not grow up hearing any of them. Finding a teacher was never a problem, because everybody learns 3-5 languages. My Russian teacher could also teach English and my English teacher could teach Spanish. 
DC are has a shortage of educated Spanish teachers who would like to teach. I know this because every school that called me, was looking for a Spanish bilingual teacher. I;m not Spanish bilingual, but I get by simply having taken only Spanish 1 and 2.
I can teach Spanish 1 better than a native speaker who has had to drop out of school after grade 9.
It's about delivery. Native speaker with limited education can teach a toddler or practice Spanish with someone who is advanced. They are not suited to teach Spanish 1 or 2 to a middle schooler.

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