"Well, if you use your voice, dictionaries generally get you an answer back? There's really... and endless amount of things to choose from, if you want to look things up. Also, your phone has the ability to take a photo. I think you should start off using your voice. Your hands... they're kind of awkward to use with a phone, wouldn't you say?"

"Oh, it just - understands words? How does it know when it's being addressed - oh, if it can take pictures is it looking too - am I being rude talking about it like an object?"

If the helpful creatures can speak and act like people, maybe their really great screen thing is also sapient?

"Well, it has a microphone that's constantly turned on. Usually. You have to activate the camera, though. You're not rude at all, it's just a lump of plastic and sand, feel free to call it whatever you want. So, you wanted to try taking a photo? If you say "take a picture of me" as its own sentence, it starts to get going. Maybe try that?"

Ke looks in the general direction of the phone and carefully intones, "Take a picture of me."

And it *clicks*, showing an image of Junilla on the front. It wasn't taken at a particularly good angle; after 10 or so seconds, it switches to showing a live feed of what the camera is seeing on the phone's screen, the picture it had taken reduced to a small corner of the image. "Maybe try finding a good angle that shows your whole face? Make a clicking noise, when you're happy with where you are in the picture. Try it!"

Junilla experiments a bit with the strange mirror, finds what ke thinks is a flattering angle, and clacks kis beak expectantly.

"Can you take one for me from a bit further away, so they can see all of me? I guess it would be polite to put measurements too, I think I take up a bit more space than you with the wingspan, do you have a measuring tape or something?" 

"Sure! I'll step a bit back." The woman manages to take a photo showing all of Junilla. "And this phone has a kind-of measuring tape? You'd need to stand very still." She quickly finds one of the apps that measures distances through parallax, and uses it to get rough idea of Junilla's proportions, moving her phone a bit to the right to let the app's magic do the work.