Nope, never had Larbi, his courses didn't appeal to what I wanted. Met him a few times though, nice bloke from what I recall.

You get used to it, but you don't ever get to like it. Interspersing unneccessary words just, well, pointless.

Non native speakers get a free "you speak more languages than me" pass, but then you have the advantage of being able to point out that it's bad practice, normally NNSs tend to prefer to be told stuff, all my colleauges do.