Several odds and ends to think about. Two new characters are introduced, one of whom can seemingly speak every language known to mankind. Well, maybe that’s an exaggeration. It sounds impossible but there are a few people like that. I knew one twenty years ago. I was running a mobile home and modular housing sales operation in upstate New York, on the northern flank of the Catskills. Between a quarter and a third of our sales were retirement and vacation homes for folks from New York City and Long Island. Depending on the poll, between a quarter and a third of City residents are non-native English speakers.
At the time, I had a saleswoman with an amazing ability to speak languages. Her father had been a career diplomat in the State Department who spent his life hopping from country to country and dragging his family along with him. Within days of landing in a new country, she was speaking the language. She was utterly fluent in French, German, Spanish, Italian, and God knows what else. She even spoke one of the Turkish languages from one of the ‘Stans. After meeting a new customer in the lobby, she could tell within seconds the native language of the customer and flip seamlessly into the new language, and the customers loved it! Very good salesperson and very high commission rates, she was one of my best salespeople. Interestingly, she had a sister who lived with her, and they were rebuilding an ancient farmhouse. I met the sister several times, and she had no language abilities other than English. Still, that was better than me. My wife says I don’t even speak English, only Southern.
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