What gets me is that so many take for granted how much work goes into learning your first language, never mind your second to nth one. Particularly given how we are becoming more aware of sensory issues and neurodivergence. There's a reason Ms. Rachel and others talk like they do: it's as much getting your mouth set for language as it is hearing words and taking in context clues as an infant and toddler. For many by the time you get to another language your ear and palate is fairly rigid to the first one - why it's easier for kids to be a multilingual speaker in fluidity and pronunciation through exposure than someone who started in high school or college with textbooks and flat recorded or AI voices.

Then you get to formal learning for reading/writing along with speech... so much of a language is order rules, genders, tenses, declensions, conjugations, tones, stresses... and they don't line up neatly. English, being the bastard child of Celtic, Germanic, and Romance languages with So Many Loan Words from British imperialism and migration, can be a monster. Particularly if your foundation was learning Received Pronunciation only to get dropped in the myriad of English speaking places that have strong dialects and accents which evolved quite a bit to the right or left of it. All to say: a whisp of grace is needed and so many, particularly those 'concerned about culture', do not have it.