"Photograph? Picture taken with a camera?"

"Camera??????"

"A camera is a little box that takes photographs. If you don't have the vocabulary for either of those, I'm not sure how to explain it better."

Hiraga will launch into a scientific explanation of how cameras work!

That's baffling and not even in a helpful way.

If Blai just - holds out his hand - will either of these men take it.

Sure, Hiraga will take it.

"Share Language."

"How did you do that?" he says in Chelish.

"It's a cleric spell. I asked for it this morning. I had meant to get along farther with Comprehend Languages alone so I would know who the best recipient would be but it did not seem likely to work."

"It would be helpful if you could explain 'cleric' in more detail. It appears to be similar to the Italian word 'priest' but it seems like some of the connotations are different. As far as I knew before today, it is very rare for a priest to speak in tongues or grant others the ability to speak in tongues." 

(In Italian:) "Roberto, did it sound to you like I was speaking the same language as Select Blai Artigas?"

"I think so."

"A cleric is an empowered servant of a god, in my case Iomedae, who is not better described as something else, such as a paladin. There are in some religions such things as lay priests who don't receive divine endorsement in the form of spellcasting but I haven't met any before."