If your maid's english is good then you will benefit from her. But mine is really poor, my friend call me but I'm not at home, my friend ask her where I go, then she don't know how to reply and pass the phone to my younger son. Ask her to do the dictation for my son, all bird's spelling to brid and she doesn't know. She has been worked for us for 5 months.
Always absent mind, cooked tomato w/egg & fried ice fish w/egg both for lunch.
My philippino maid can communicate with me in English but sometimes, i don't know she is talking about. she has a different accent which is difficult to guess what she means. my hubby even complains that her english is poor that he can hardly communicate with her.
anyway, we've got some incentives to learn vocabulary to communicate with the maid while i don't want my kid to follow her accent.
My Indo. maid has been work in Singapore, therefore her english is OK, at least we can communicate. Be honestly, my english listening is better than before.
But when I bought a very simple story book to my son, she said that she can not read for my son because she only can speak but can not write and read.