"I guess." She will take notes on Oahkar.

She doesn't have to take notes he just wants to talk with her.

"I'll forget things if I don't write it down."

"If you want to write it down you can but if that'll make it seem more like work than that's no good, and I'm not expecting you to remember everything."

"...I thought you wanted me to learn it?"

" - yes, and you will. One-year-olds are good at learning languages and they largely are not good at taking notes and they still do learn it."

"But I don't understand anything you say when you talk in Oahkar."

"- I don't object if you take notes, I just don't want you to think you are expected to."

"I like taking notes. I take a lot of them."

"Okay." Smile. They can start by handing tokens back and forth and learning the words for 'mine' and 'yours' and 'two' and 'three' and then add words from there!

She still has her peculiar accent in Oahkar, although it's fading a little.

He is so puzzled and fascinated by her peculiar accent! "This token is mine. This token is yours. Give your token to me. Give my token to Aitim."

"- do you actually want me to or -"

"You can but you can also tell me to do things, the point is to talk. You can communicate in a language right away if the things you might need to talk about are very limited."

"You give your token to Aitim."

He hands it to Aitim. "I give my token to Aitim. Aitim give my token to me."

Aitim does that. 

He throws it at Aitim's face. "I throw my token at Aitim. Aitim throw my token at Lintalai."

Aitim makes a face and gently drops it on her.

"No, AItim. Aitim drops my token on Lintalai. Aitim not throw my token at Lintalai."

She giggles. "Throw the token at Afen!"

Aitim is happy to do that! 

"Aitim threw the token at Afen," says Afen. "Afen gives the token to Lintalai."

She throws it back at him.

He catches it and observes "Lintalai throws the token at Afen!" and waits for a prompt about what to do with it.

"Throw it at you," she challenges.

"Lintalai says Afen should throw the token at Afen?"

"Yes."

He tosses it up in the air and lets it fall on his head. "I threw it up. It fell."

"It fell at you!"