Up, down, left, right? I/me, you, he, she? Colors?

Yes, they can do all those!

Names for various items in the room! Verbs: writing speaking standing sitting walking flying!

Miscellanous adjectives and then the verb "to be"?

Sure!

Alphabets - his has twenty-four letters, which he writes down neatly and names aloud: fas, var, pei, bes, san, zar, tai, des, shar, wyr, kai, thi, re, lu, ne, mi, urnu, ormo, yi, adai, iki, evei, chiri, tsai. Spelling in his language seems to be somewhat more reasonable than in English, although not completely - wyr in particular shows up in the, er, weirdest places, and there are some silent vowels.

She can respect that.

She writes down the latin alphabet, uppercase and lowercase on separate lines but each capital above its counterpart and names them together, and demonstrates use cases for capitals like the beginnings of names.

Ashras seems amused by the existence of capital letters, but follows along. And writes down his name and Kyralaine's, and attempts to transcribe them into the Latin alphabet himself.

Capital letters are fairly nonsensical! Edie transcribes the earthlings' names into his script.

All right... 'yes', 'no', 'maybe', they're running out of paper which is an opportunity to introduce 'more', and numbers too, and then - how about geography?

He draws a map. Actually he draws four maps, all approximately circular. He indicates their current location in the upper left quadrant of map number one.

He gestures to the map(s), and then to his guests, inquiringly.

"...No," says Anna, since this seems to be the most efficient way to communicate the correct answer given their limited mutual vocabulary.

Ashras laughs.

...Right. Hm.

She takes a blank sheet of paper, then draws an oval with openings at the long ends. She draws stick figures inside this, some with pointy ears and some with round ears.

Then she draws a circle, and stick figures standing on the outside of the circle. She labels four of the stick figures "Edie, Emily, Anna, Cass," and then circles them and draws an arrow to the oval.

"...huh," says Ashras.

He redraws the oval example: pointy-eared stick figures standing on the inner circumference of the oval, round-eared stick figures standing on the outside, and pointy-eared stick figures with tails floating in the very middle amidst a scribble of vegetation.

Aha.

She looks at the round-eared stick figures on her Earth and nods. Then she draws another picture--the stick figures representing her and her friends in a room. She draws an arrow from the room to Earth. The room has a tapestry in it. She draws another picture, with the Emily-stick examining the tapestry and touching it. Then another, with the Emily stick trying to draw her hand away and threads coming with it. Then one with the Cass-stick tangled in the remains of the tapestry. Then one with them all on a hill. Then she adds a giant snake to the hill, and draws the four stick figures flying away, and adds the house, and a stick figure with wings which she dubs "Kyralaine."

Ashras examines this narrative. He seems to find it very puzzling.

They're pretty puzzled about it too!

At least they can all be confused together.

Yeah.

More words? Maybe they can start stringing sentences together soon.

Yeah - actually how about they attempt to construct and translate into both languages an actual description of the events of this story -

Hoo boy. Okay.

They were staying in an old house and periodically went exploring because there was some neat stuff in it, and one neat thing they found was a tapestry, and its threads went sticky when Emily touched them, and then Cass's clothes got caught on one of the distended threads and then it dissolved into a tangle around her and the other three tried to get it off and then they were on a hilltop on this planet and decided to leave because there was an enormous snake and happened by chance upon this house. How much of that can get translated?

Plenty, with enough creativity and stick figures!

Plenty of both is available!

Ashras seems to be picking up English faster than the reverse. Hey, how about full names and family relations - a stick family tree takes shape - Azair Kevarsin and Kyralaine Evniar, the parents of Ashras Kevarsin, Inlaith Kevarsin, and Elarron Kevarsin -

Emily is probably doing better than Edie, even though she's mostly just watching, because she unlocked the black rose's skill thing.

Sure, families. Charlotte Frances Xavier and Eric Magnus Lehnsherr are the parents of Edie Magda Lehnsherr and Emily Moira Lehnsherr.

The other two don't seem to be interested in sharing genealogical data. Ashras doesn't press.

All right, how about politics - here are labels for assorted regions of this planet - the part they're in is Tarnedrae, and it belongs to Ashras's family, ruled by his grandfather Faidre; the girl in the portrait is Rokarai Iserra, and her grandfather Dalvor Iserra rules Aluvanna, which is the entire interior of the planet, as represented on these two circles of the map. The outside is Ceir (pronounced with a K sound but spelled chiri-wyr-evei-iki-re; he contemplates possible English transcriptions and then settles on using a C for the chiri-wyr cluster) and does not have a nice tidy single ruler for him to name.

Edie sketches a rough world map and identifies the United States. Do they have enough vocabulary to communicate "representative democracy"?