She starts writing letters derived from them. "Some of these seem tricky, but at least German has some letters that are mostly circles-with-things-attached even if it's only like five."

"I think there are alphabets that aren't just Unown shapes but I don't know any of them and they aren't used near where I live."

And now she has a list of letters that is not an alphabet because it's in the wrong order. "The alphabet German uses is used by like half the world slightly changed for different languages, I think."

Bella tells her how to reorder the Unown shapes.

Which she does. She writes dashes next to them. "Okay, sounds?"

Which Bella also tells her! And she writes out the numerals one to ten, as well, and: "And what do you want in your phrasebook?"

"I'll write everything I can think of down in a notebook and then give it to you and you just copy? Plus anything you think I missed. It could take a while."

"Sure. I was planning to hang around here for hours and hours anyway."

"Oh, definitely, it's fascinating. I almost wanna go talk to some other people but if I do that maybe time goes weird and I lose track of you and don't get to see a world with 'mon."

"Could happen. It's been pretty empty since I showed up though."

She nods and buys paper and ink from Bar and produces an old-style inkwell pen from somewhere and starts writing. The eisbein is long gone.

She's pretty thorough. She goes for individual words mostly, with a some need-to-know phrases like 'how much does thing cost' and 'where is thing'. And serieses of increasingly complicated sentences to help work out grammar with.

And Bella, who has a pen on her, takes the first page when it's full and writes out translations.

She slows down the rate of phrasebook entries after a few minutes, requesting electronics reading material from Bar and only occasionally adding new words to the extant lists.

"Say, where's the door in your world? Somewhere I could poke my head out of the translation aura and practice?"

"It's a Pokémart. I'm not sure if the aura works like that though - Bar?"

The aura will remain in effect for persons substantially inside the establishment even when the door is open.

"I could step into the shop while you stand there and hold the door maybe, but it's not exactly critical to get a two minute head start. I should practice the sounds - if you spell a word think I can make out the letters and try saying it?"

"Sure." Bella grabs Unown pictures and arranges them into a word.

She sounds it out, and says the word.

...She definitely has an accent, but it sounds like someone speaking Islandish with a bad accent, not a seamless Bar-translation so it was apparently comprehensible enough for the translation aura to skip it.

"You've got a heck of an accent but you're not completely incomprehensible!"

"Good! Which letters did I mess up...? Oh and..." She looks through her phrasebook for the relevant word. "It looks like Islandish to me now, neat!"

"Maybe you'll be able to hear me untranslated if I say it?" And Bella repeats the word, slowly and clearly.

"I kinda heard it in both languages." She tries again. It's much better but still accented. Again, again, again.

She laughs. "You know that thing where something stops sounding like a real word sometimes?"

"Yeah. We can do another word." Unown shuffle.

She finds the impromptu language lesson absolutely delightful. It's possible she's just generally cheerful when not actively depressed by something, or maybe it's the rush of going-on-an-adventure, or the fact that she's made a pretty and smart new friend.

Bella does her best to be a good language tutor.