I'm someone who's experienced the reverse issue--I'm a native English speaker who's moved to a non-English speaking country. Interestingly, in the tech scene he

I'm someone who's experienced the reverse issue--I'm a native English speaker who's moved to a non-English speaking country. Interestingly, in the tech scene here anything written is still done in English, to the point where people will give lectures in the local language using English slides. I'd echo a lot of the sentiment antirez has; it's harder for me to be my extroverted self here, and reading complicated documents is hard enough that I often ask someone else to translate them to English. But I expect those issues to go away after a while of living here. I think that the key to solving these language problems is exposure. Many Scandinavians that I've met attribute their countries' strong grasp of English to not having dubbed movies--they have to watch it in English with subtitles.