"I wasn't going to send them out speaking fluent English," explained Matthew Tully, the upper school English teacher.
A stocky and affable man, aged 64, he apologised before the interview in the city of Ramalan for his broken English – though it turned out to be fluent, something explained by a year spent in Britain learning English and 12 years as an oil industry engineer in Saudi Arabia, where the working language was also English.
While the entry must be in English, "if they are not fluent," she explains, "[entrants] can ask for help from their [IUPAC] national representative".
He's French, speaks fluent American and explains: "It's an impulse, a necessity.
In heavily accented but fluent English he explains how the house illustrates his principles of "integral art".
In fluent English, he explains that he wants to succeed for his school, his country and the world.
"It's extremely common to meet Arabs and Iranians who speak fluent English," he explained.
In fluent German he explains that it is hard to digest all the stories of hardship and solitude which remind him so much of his own.
In fluent French, he casually explained his father's Scottish background and that he had a UK passport.
Chang Lee, who runs a clothes shop just north of the border, explains in fluent Spanglish that Mexicans are spending "too mucho time" waiting to cross, which leaves too little time for shopping.
"It's just a film about having no one to have pasta with and having someone to have pasta with," she explained in fluent English, "so it's not a very big step".
