**Foreign-Lands Naturalization Technique**

Simple, Special, 5m, Essence 2, Linguistics 2.

Learn a spoken or written language in a scene of immersion of that form, the knowledge
persists for the story, then fades.  A number of languages equal to
the character's Int+Linguistics may be learned in this way at a time.  Remember that a script and a language each take a slot.

**Foreigner-Greeting Responsive Method**

Simple, Scene, 2m, Essence 3, Linguistics 3.
Requires Foreign-Lands Naturalization Technique.

Learn a spoken or written languages in a few sentences, the knowledge persists
for a scene.  A number of languages equal to the character's
Wits+Linguistics may be learned in this way at a time.  Remember that a script and a language each take a slot.

**Transcription of the Stranger's Words**

Simple, Indefinite, 3m, Essence 3, Linguistics 4.
Requires Foreigner-Greeting Responsive Method.

Learn a spoken language from a page of writing, or a script from its most
typical spoken form.  The knowledge persists for as long as the Essence motes are committed.

**Discerning the Stranger's Tongue**

Simple, Instant, 3m, Essence 2, Linguistics 4.
Requires Foreign-Lands Naturalization Technique.

Without a stranger even speaking a word, the Exalt notices from subtle
cues his native language and languages the two share.

**Solar Inflammation of the Lips**

Simple, 1 speech, 1m/language, Essence 4, Linguistics 5.
Requires Foreign-Lands Naturalization Technique, Discerning the Stranger's Tongue.

The Solar may speak in multiple languages at once, so as to address a
heterolinguistic crowd.  This costs one mote per language used, and
lasts for one speech.  The Exalt has no special knowledge
of the languages his targets understand, so the player must specify
which languages are to be used.  The Solar also has to know the
languages to be used, either through mundane Linguistics or through
Charms.

**Meditation on the Children of the Lens**

Simple, Scene, 8m, Essence 5, Linguistics 5.
Requires Transcription of the Stranger's Words, Discerning the Stranger's Tongue

The Exalt may understand all forms of communication within his sensory range: this goes beyond mere understanding of languages to the extent that he will understand a simple hand gesture to mean, "The wagons are loaded; begin the attack as planned."

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This isn't really about Speak Language, but it is about speaking languages.  The right way to do Linguistics (and maybe Craft) in our world is to look at the broadness of other skills: Melee covers fighting with *anything*.  Linguistics should really be as broad.  So my idea is to set "Thresholds" for various languages: you need a Linguistics of 0 for your native language (English/Dwarven), 1 gets you French,German,Spanish/Human,Orkish, 2 gets you Japanese,Arabic/T'Skrang,Trollish, 4 gets you Sperethial/Sperethial, and 5 is reserved for Linear B, Mayan, and such.


Who said that?  I think that's wonderful...you could even make normal linguistics give you a decent, but abstracted chance to pick up or already know a language/dialect, and enhace that with a background as necessary (a sort of heartsblood like background, to represent language exposure form traveling and the like...) dude.  I wonder how much other interesting random stuff like this is burried in the wiki?  --jesse cox.

I'm going to make a wild guess and say that I'm the only one who distinguishes between Sperethial and Sperethial or consideres Linear B and Mayan (or French and Orkish) to be equally difficult languages. :) --bts