>>This could also work if a diverse group of people come to the Blues Moon...<<
I still think Shiv could do well working through a language barrier...by doodling foods on the back of an old placemat. (Or a Deaf customer could work around Shiv's reading issues by using a voice app - Google Translate will 'talk' for you, even if it is an annoying monotone.)
I'm artsy enough to have done this in RL. Occasionally interspersed with pointing at stuff in a book, hand gestures, etc. (I've actually even done a page o'doodles based on the days lessons / conversations / a specific question, then labeled the doodles and given the page to whichever student I've been working with.)
Speaking of linguistic shenanigans, separate prompt: - Just because I can speak X, does not mean I can write X. - I'm not writing [foreign alphabet], I'm copying [foreign alphabet]. - I can't read [language], I'm just reading the pronunciations listed here.
Re: This might be lacking coherency
I still think Shiv could do well working through a language barrier...by doodling foods on the back of an old placemat. (Or a Deaf customer could work around Shiv's reading issues by using a voice app - Google Translate will 'talk' for you, even if it is an annoying monotone.)
I'm artsy enough to have done this in RL. Occasionally interspersed with pointing at stuff in a book, hand gestures, etc. (I've actually even done a page o'doodles based on the days lessons / conversations / a specific question, then labeled the doodles and given the page to whichever student I've been working with.)
Speaking of linguistic shenanigans, separate prompt:
- Just because I can speak X, does not mean I can write X.
- I'm not writing [foreign alphabet], I'm copying [foreign alphabet].
- I can't read [language], I'm just reading the pronunciations listed here.