أنشئ حسابًا أو سجّل الدخول للانضمام إلى مجتمعك المهني.
yes, mother tongue plays very important role. A person who is reading a subject in his mother tongue can understand it in more appropriate way than the person who is cramming to other's language.
The world becomes a small village and learning languages has been available to most people, so academic achievement in any major in any language is available to ambitious and determined people.