We've read about this countless times in the newspapers or on the internet. But, I never believe it.

Well, there are times when some Americans really, really mess up their English. Not just the usual your and you're mess up, I'm talking about were and where. And, I've seen this from Americans and the English too. But, their spoken English is fluent.

Indians on the other hand, can't pronounce most words correctly. Our is mostly pronounced as a-v-er and five becomes fa-yu.

And, the newspaper articles clearly say "Indians speak English better than the British", it's not like they were talking about written English either.

Well, I can understand a few pronunciation errors. It's because of the accent, of course. But, a lot of Indians completely screw up their grammar as well.

Still, I can understand, it's not their first language. But, if you expect to work in an English medium school, you should be able to speak English.

The only teachers that can speak English properly are the English teachers. Everyone else is just not good enough. And, their struggle with the language is really obvious.

One time, I remember, the whole class was laughing because of the new computer teacher's English. I don't know if she was just acting like she didn't know why, but she started asking us questions like "Why you're laughing?" well, that made us laugh even more.

Then, we've had math teachers who would screw up their spellings. "Illimination" instead of "Elimination", "traingle" instead of "triangle" and more.

And the worst is when they literally translate from their language to English.

There's a phrase in Marathi, डोक्यावर चढू नकोस, which means, 'Don't irritate me.'

And the teacher literally translates the phrase into English, "Don't climb on my head."

So, the next time you feel good about yourself when you read such articles, forget about it. This statistic report is based on the results of an exam called TOEFL (Test of English as a foreign language) which students have to write if they want to go America for further education. And, these students speak English well, not all Indians.