IQ, Karma, Strain After listening to a spoken language (or witnessing an entire gestural conversation) for one minute, the character may roll IQ + rank to learn the language (penalties for expecially foreign or complicated languages may apply). A character may only know a number of languages equal to her rank through this tallent. When comprehension is questionable, roll against IQ + rank, with penalties from -2 to -5 if trying to comprehend a dialect (such as trying to understand Hill Troll from Troll. Remember, you can always learn Hill Troll to eliminate the penalty). Although it is possible to understand technical/philisphical/thaumatological jargon from the base language, it is extremely difficult.
The penalty for gestural languages, or other things which aren't *Spoken* *Languages* will be large. --bts