It's very helpful! She learns the computer and English much more quickly.

"If you learn this fast enough, we may not need the translator gizmo at all."

"I'm leaning on you a lot, I won't retain all of it when you've gone."

"Yeah but if I hang around you for a few days you might? With the telepathy."

"I've never tried learning a language that way, but it certainly won't hurt."

"It's helping, right?"

"Yes, a lot." She's taking notes very fast.

He smiles. "Good, then! So I'll tell them not to worry about the translation gizmo and follow you around while you do stuff."

"I appreciate that."

"So is there anything you want to do in particular next?"

Well, is he conveniently thinking about any options that seem interesting?

He's thinking the things she's most likely to want—or the things he'd be most likely to want if he were in her place—would be to check books out or differences in technology or walk around to get to know the place and understand the culture better.

"I'm curious about the technology," she confirms. "I won't know where to start, obviously."

"Oh, well—what did you see here that's very new and different? Computers and electronics in general seems to be a pattern..."

"Yes, we don't have those. Or the thing I rode in, or the kind of pavement it went on, or anything the fellow with the beard has, or the thing that took us between floors."

"Okay... things you do have? Might be too general, but I'm trying to see how far I should try to explain and show stuff..."

"We get around with horses, alone or hitched to carriages. We have - hm, we have glass but not in such large panes. I can't figure out what all the materials here are."

"Why not in such large panes?"

"I don't know, I've just never seen a plate of glass larger than about -" She gestures.

"Huh. How is glass mostly made where you're from, do you know?"

"I'm afraid I've never looked closely into glass manufacture. Conventional glass manufacture, anyway, I've tried sculpting it with my bare hands for fun."

He nods. "Yeah, makes sense. There's—probably a way to fit that into a history of glassmaking so I can figure out how far back you are..." He goes to Wikipedia and starts looking stuff up.

Large-paned glass was a relatively recent invention on Earth too. Kiri doesn't have to read over his shoulder to "read over his shoulder".

"Okay, hmm... Gunpowder? Is that a thing?" He's speaking English for the word but the concept is clear enough in his head.

"For fireworks - we don't use them the way you're thinking."