[muawiyah]

Oh, yes, and the "raised voice syndrome" ~ that's how you get funny little foreign people to understand English ~ just keep raising your voice more and more and more until finally they understand!

That's even a comedy routine in numerous "we're on vacation" movies. It's a common human foible. What is to understand? You don't get out much do you.

[mass55th]

Maybe these guys can hire you as their defense attorney for their Immigration hearings. You've managed to provide them with their "victim" defense quite well.