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"I got songs that are suitable for kids! Heh, I mean. There's a bunch Dad used to sing to me when I couldn't sleep. And he taught me a couple of songs in Irish actually. I taught those to my Pokemon too."

None of them were singing anything daft...yet. Some where definitely gonna end up picking up on those songs too in time. He lowered his gaze to the guitarstroking along the strings. "Some of them are a bit daft, like a nonsense song about seaweed. But others are a bit more...well they've got actual meaning to 'em. But nobody here knows Irish except for me I think."

"Irish huh? I'd like to hear some of those sometime." He'd heard a couple different languages since he got here and it was kind of fascinating, in a way. You didn't really run into a lot of that where he's from. There were people with varying accents but different languages?

Well, the Astrals had their thing but that was the Astrals.

"You'd like to hear some of those songs or just the language?" For him the idea of not having a ton of foreign languages was just as strange. How could that happen? The world was so vast and history being what it was, it seemed inevitable that people would end up using different words for things.

And being raised by a man from rural Ireland, his dad had been determined to use it. Hell it was Oisin's first language - English was his second one.

"Both?" Noctis admitted before laughing. "We don't really have a lot of different languages back home so coming here and learning that it was a thing in so many worlds..it's really cool."

And hey, just because he hadn't paid a whole lot of attention in school most of the time didn't mean learning wasn't something he enjoyed.

"It's kind of amazing that your home didn't have a mess of languages. I don't even know how many there are back home. More than I could ever count!"

He put aside his guitar. "Let's just start with a few words. So; 'Dia dhuit. Is é mo ainm Ash.' means 'Hello, my name is Lucy'."

"The only real difference is some people have accents depending on where they live but everyone still speaks the same language," he mused, curious about whether or not there had been different languages at one point. It's not something that had ever come up in his studies.

Noctis wasn't sure he was going to be able to pronounce what Ash had said at all but he can't help but squint at his friend with a faint grin.

"You definitely said Ash, not Lucy."

"Ah, you're too smart for that. So at least you know one word in Irish!" Congrats Noctis, you know that Ash's name is Ash in Irish! He grinned and carried on.

"If I call you 'chara' that means 'friend'. But the Irish put their sentences together differently. Like, instead of describing something before the thing, you it after. So if I wanna call you my best friend, it's 'chara is fearr.' The description comes after what you're describing."

Playfully rolling his eyes, Noctis gently elbowed his companion.

"Jerk," he muttered before frowning slightly. "Wait, why though? Put the description after the thing, I mean."

That just seemed weird to him but, well, he also has no basis outside of his own language.

Ash shrugged. "It's the same in French and a bunch of other languages apparently. Mind you I sucked at French so don't ask me anything about that." And if that seemed weird, he's gonna have a fun time when Ash gets onto gendered pronouns!

"When I was little and still learning both languages, I'd get them mixed up sometimes and say shit like 'I'm gonna wear my jumper red'. Still sometimes do get mixed up at times, cos my head's thinking in one language and out it comes. And there's words in Irish that don't have an English word to go with them. So, one of them is aduantas. You know when you're in a new situation or surrounded by new people you don't know too well, and you're kinda nervous and anxious about it? That feeling is aduantas."

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