"House. Grass. Rock. Gate."

The short person sighs. "House, grass, rock, gate."

<If you just teach them your language I won't get enough of theirs.>

Well he can point questioningly at the grass.

Isun gives the word for grass, and can continue to be prompted for vocabulary, but this isn't very helpful for the chip, which appears to work better in the presence of grammatical sentences.

That makes sense. He can...attempt to demonstrate this by talking to Eskillimi again?

Isun appears to assume that this just means he has something to say to Eskillimi.

Miranda tries demonstrating verbs and prompting Isun about those, which gets short sentences.

<It's getting bits now, yeah, they're saying 'you walk' and so on ->

You give this rock to Miranda? You give this grass to Miranda and then take it back?

<I guess if I have to translate anyway I should morph somebody who can make sounds.>

"Morph? - uh, you just said 'I guess if I have to translate anyway I should morph somebody who can make sounds'."

<Andalites can morph. If I touch somebody and acquire their DNA I can turn into them. I haven't done it much and don't know how to do the kind where I blend a few samples to get something that looks different, though.>

"- woah. Magic or technology?"

<Technology. Not everything's one of those, though, thoughtspeak isn't.>

"Does it harm the person whose DNA you acquire?"

<No, it just makes them sleepy for a minute.>

"Huh. Okay. You can clone me if you want."

"Or me, if you're a girl alien. ...who cares about gender. Amentans don't."

<I'm a girl alien. I could try mixing you up so I don't look exactly like either of you, I just might not do it right because the time I morphed before it was to try flying and nobody can tell kafit birds apart.>

"...sure, try it."

Eskillimi tries it, going very slowly. Soon there is a naked light brown human woman standing in their yard.

"...I'll go get her clothes," volunteers Ana.

"Thank you," he says, not looking. 

Ana comes back with a robe ("it seemed simplest") and puts it on Eskillimi, who seems confused by it.

Isun, supervising this whole business, looks extremely bewildered, and this isn't helped when Eskillimi starts talking to him in his language very haltingly and with a lot of repetition of sounds.

He listens intently and takes notes for his dictionary.