I don't find it very surprising or weird, I do think it's a great thing however. I really appreciate well-spoken individuals (I love the pure, well-spoken, proper English accent), I aspire to become like them one day. I'm not a native speaker, and although I don't have a strong accent (certainly no detectable regional accent at that), it's immediately obvious that I didn't speak the language since birth but rather acquired it later on in life. Sentence structure, tone of voice, pronunciation, grammar and variety in vocabulary can certainly do with a huge improvement.