I'd expect it to work under similar principles as any other vehicle, maybe with some complications if engine-type stuff works different from more purely mechanical locomotion.

"When do humans invent all this stuff?"

Spaceships in primitive form are twentieth century and they get fancier from there. Airplanes are a bit earlier than rockets that leave the planetary atmosphere but by a surprisingly small margin, I forget how small.

"Huh. Neat."

And eventually he'll run out of questions or allowance to ask them. "Thank you. This was - nice."

Good, because we can't go witness the invention of the joint stock corporation till the thirteenth century. We missed the Chinese version already!

Apparently against his better judgment he sits back down. "Joint stock corporation?"

Do you need me to cut you off here?

He makes a face. 

Sorry.

"If it were your fault I wouldn't like you at all. - maybe a little bit. I wouldn't like you very much." He shakes his head. He heads out.

Poor Econ Faery.

Cam does some work on the screen flicker problem, humming to himself through the tape.

A while after that he comes in with an impressive stack of certificates. "Hi! I would like to learn all the languages you speak."

As you can probably see I currently have tape on my mouth, which I was planning to leave there for awhile to observe where I tend to talk too carelessly. Example sentences in dozens of languages seem like they'd be especially hard to curate for accuracy.

He sets all of the certificates down, looking very sad. "How long're you going to be at that?"

I was thinking at least as long as it takes for all the misfortune to wear off but I've taken it off temporarily to update the human. I don't actually know how long that will take. Do you have a usual language learning protocol that doesn't have this problem?

"Mostly people say 'this is a coin, this is a berry, this is a rock' and other things that are true."

That's going to really limit your vocabulary. Or clutter your court with objects, I guess.

"Hmmm. Do all the languages have the same written form?"

Not even close. There's a most common alphabet, it's about the same as the current local language.

"Ooooh! Then can you teach me the alphabets for the other ones? And we can do spoken words some other time."

I guess that seems safe if I just pronounce individual sounds and words for you without forming any sentences?

"Yes, that's not posing any risk of lying."

Cam peels the tape off and starts teaching him the Arabic alphabet.

He's so so delighted about this.

When they're done with Arabic he can do hiragana and katakana with some written explanation of why this language has three alphabets.