"That's the thing I'm most likely to trade for tutoring on at the moment. I'm trying to pick it up as quickly as possible because I need it for a class. I spent a good chunk of my weekend reading part of an intro textbook. The other thing is if you have any experience with spell translation. I have a lot of spells that are too expensive for me to cast in a language almost nobody knows and someone I expect to be willing to trade for anything I can translate since they're healing spells."

"I can absolutely do Russian tutoring! I can maybe do spell translation if the spells are caster-only, but, uh, recent experience suggests my affinity likes tweaking things so they work really well on me and not so well for others. If I tried to translate a spell, ah, unselfishly, it might turn out subtly problematic. I would totally trade for them though." 

"The reason I need to translate them is because they require too much mana for me to use. Maybe someone with a good affinity could stretch them but some are probably beyond even that. I'll probably trade for Russian tutoring though what would you want in exchange?"

"Eh, if they're upperclassman-level spells they'll still be good to have when I'm an upperclassman. Offer stands. For tutoring - probably shop materials, alchemical ingredients, or mana depending on what I need in a given week. Mana is the simplest of those." He will cheerfully haggle to a mutually agreeable price while he starts laying out ingredients. 

Ribo really doesn't know what things are worth but she'll take a wishlist of shop materials. Mana is not something she really wants to trade away. She's also noncommittal on trading the upperclassmen spells.

(Ghassan shows up fashionably late- it looks like there's at least been some attempt to clear out the room. He makes a beeline for Lysander, happy to see a familiar face. And there's Orion Lake again, like some kind of mal-sniffing dog clearing the room for everyone else. He wonders what kind of parents would turn out a kid that recklessly stupid, no matter how convenient his affinity. Eventually, it'll catch up to him. Until then, though, he's a great help to those in the class who want to get their work done without constant mal interruption.)