Spanish is his first language and learned to speak English by watching The Simpsons, Pokémon, Digimon, and other shows which greatly infuriated his teachers.
On religion, there's a lot of mystery behind it that's for sure. I can put up a good argument why it's legit but also why it's false. In the end I do believe in a divine force that made all this happen, we simply aren't getting the whole story straight.