LOR from non-native English speaker?

Graduate School
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<p>Hi,</p>

<p>One of my potential LORs is from a native spanish speaker who taught International Econ. She was good at Econ and could be a decent LOR, but her English wasn't great. Would it be okay to ask her? Will committees overlook any poor grammar, etc or should I find someone else?</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>My PI was a non-native English speaker. Of course not having an LOR from them was not even an option…but it did not seem to hurt me at all. I am sure your prof can write well enough if they have made it this far. You can usually distinguish non-native speaking poor grammar from poor grammar.</p>

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<p>If she’s teaching in a decent university, she can write a decent letter, native English speaker or not. Period.</p>