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PhD comics is spot-on, as usual:

"I promise, by the time you write your thesis, you won't get a single edit or comment from me."

"It'll be that good?"

"I won't care anymore."

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My advisor doesn't really speak my language, either. But he has some basic understanding of what I am doing and he seemed interested in learning more. The advisor I originally picked was the department director who also didn't speak my language, but told me flat-out that he would sign off on anything to get me out the door fast. Unfortunately, he died very suddenly and unexpectedly (maybe suicide, autopsy never released to public). Anyway, I found myself in a department I didn't really belong and my advisor was the "closest" match. I'd rather be working with an "expert" in my field, but such is life...