"Oh, right, English and Hari is a thing. I'll probably try to learn Hari. All this is exciting! Good luck and all!"

That sounds like probably a dismissal, probably. "Good luck and all!" he echoes and off he goes to get things done.

She helps with the 'building a city from scratch' thing for a while. Eventually she gets bored of it and eats from one of the common kitchens going up, and she has a lot of money from saving bills and turning them all in at Milliways, and starts hiking the distance to the other city, Riuhiu. (There are automata-buses and force mages going back and forth but that's way too crowded.) She doesn't get all the way there by nightfall, but she's well used to sleeping in random cold places, she throws together a makeshift shelter and she has her sleeping bag. She gets there in the morning and wanders around for a while, clanking slightly.

Signs point to the imperial and state government offices. An adult agerah and two kittens are going for a walk around town at the moment.

A noticeboard near the middle of town has a lot of ads, mostly in Hari, one in Ilan. Two are in English and seem to be new:

Hari and Lexori conversation practice for 24 rings per half hour, look for Exav the human on the first floor of the red building with the vines.

i want to buy humans. talk to han the erel illusion person at the market stall in the morning.

Aww, the kittens are cute! It's only slightly weird that they're people!

...She had better not go looking for Han. She knew that was the norm here, but eesh. Hari practice is probably a good idea, but she should try to figure stuff out at least a little bit on her own at first. To the government office! They have a thing for that!

They have a thing for that, yup. Just got a new shipment in this morning, figuring they'll have a lot of interest now.

In the video a cat seems to be naming objects.

Eh, this is going to take a while. Kind of boring, but definitely necessary. She'll sit next to a building somewhere and people-watch and listen to object-naming. She has the grammar and pronunciation writeup that some linguist made on Learning-Hari-For-English-Speakers, too.

She'll have such fun learning the tones.

There are all sorts of people out and about. There's a man with pointy ears wearing a baby who seems to be asleep. There's someone selling some sort of plants that have barely sprouted, from a cart parked on the side of the street.

Well, it's not that much worse than Swedish, which she learned bits and pieces of what feels like half a lifetime ago. 

Pointy ears probably mean 'not a human'. Probably. Maybe it's a medical condition. She hops to her feet and tries to figure out what the plants are, once she gets to a point where she's bored just trying to memorize stuff.

There are a few kinds and they have labels. They're such little sprouts it's hard to tell, but there's arugula, alfalfa and sunflowers. The seller tries to explain something about them. He's wearing the symbol for inheritance magic on a necklace.

"Hari is not! Sorry!"

She doesn't recognize the symbol. And she's not a farmer. But hey, plant seedlings, neat. Maybe she should buy some and bring them back to New Dover? ...Eh. She'll mention this stall if she sees anyone speaking English, though.

The inheritance mage seems confused and doesn't try to answer that.

A belul notices her accent and approaches her when she's done looking at plants. "Hello, my English slightly exists, can I give Hari and learn English?"

"That sounds good! I'm not a teacher, though. I am not a mahan," she finishes, gesturing at the government-provided language tutorial.

And this is what a belul looks like when they're... laughing? That's arguably a laugh.

"Mahan is boring anyway," the belul says in Hari. Then in English: "Is English first or is Hari first?"

Well, hopefully she'll get the joke later?

"'Should we do English first, or Hari first?'" Shrug. "English first, and Hari second, switch every few minutes?"

"...Is good. What is minutes?"

"It's good, that's fine, sure. All things that mean 'is good'! Minutes is, uh, are... Tick, tock, tick, tock, are seconds, sixty seconds, uh, five twelve seconds is a minute..."

She's not trained as a teacher or anything but she will gamely try her best! And chatter and try to absorb stuff from this belul when it's her turn, too.

The belul has lots of questions and lots of Hari pronunciation tips that are only sort of comprehensible.

She's focusing on the grammar and vocab bits of Hari. Her accent is kind of awful. Tones are weird.

"Learning Hari is hard. Learning English is hard. Hey, why do you want to learn English?"

The belul decides answering will be good practice and does it for free.

"Ira Sani people speak English. People know new automata, they speak English. Important people like you."

"Yeah, I guess so. Well, I don't know how to make automata. I just know how to use them." She shrugs again. "Me? Important? That's a laugh."

"What's a laugh? Is a laugh wrong?"

...She laughs. "What I just did is a laugh. 'That's a laugh' is like... 'No, that's not right'. And also funny? It's an idiom, like 'letting the cat out of the bag' doesn't actually mean a cat was in a bag. Idioms are hard, don't worry."

"I understand. Hari is like English, it has hard idioms."

He tells her some.

He'll keep on being a sort of okay language teacher as long as she's interested in chatting.

This is pretty productive and more entertaining than listening to the boring government standard language tutorial.

"What do you do to work?"