You said that you thought Jesse's first language wasn't English...
...am I mistaken?
(edit - Ah, I see what you're getting at now.)
When you spend a year or so in Morocco - you either speak Mahgrebi or French... or go hungry. Very little English is spoken there (or at least when I was there).
I hadn't spoken French since 'O' level - it was a real crash course.
BTW - Mumtaz! Although, I don't read or write
