Change system default language

Hi all,
Just bought my first mac (macbook air 11") and i bought it second hand.
The guy that sold it to me, had the language set to Chinese. I cant read Chinese so i asked him to change it to English, which he did.
He also left a lot of his personal information on here, which is not wise, but i am a nice guy and attempted to do a system restore.
The whole restore menues were in Chinese but i managed to guess my way through it and now it seems to be doing a restore.
I know the language can be changed once in the OS, however how do i do this for the restore partition?
Not sure where he got it from, but open to suggestions how to change it all to english.

So an update.
I found a help article which describes how to change the language of the logon screen, which worked fine. Now OSX and the logon screen are all in englis, however the recovery partition is still in Chinese.
Not sure where to go from here as i cant really load an english version of OSX disk on the MBA.

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