Saw this on Reddit about him speaking English:
Which sounds right because that guy with the boots wasn't french.
This has been discussed a lot on here and the conclusion people came up with is that he did know how to speak English because he taught in Austrailia and had those conversations about boots with his Australian colleague. French is just his native language so that's what he explained he was speaking in the pilot.
Which sounds right because that guy with the boots wasn't french.