This falls in line with how I've always thought it might be better to learn a foreign language from an instructor who mastered it as a second language rather th

This falls in line with how I've always thought it might be better to learn a foreign language from an instructor who mastered it as a second language rather than a native speaker. Assuming two instructors of otherwise equal theoretical ability and experience, the former might have a more empathetic understanding of the learning process a second language student would go through whereas the latter might unintentionally, innocently gloss over things that, to them, seem intuitive but the student may encounter as huge stumbling blocks. The ordering of direct and and indirect object English versus Spanish pronouns spring to mind.