And these things the Valar understood because they had learned our tongue.

We have the means to learn their tongue, given time.

All this was done without verbal communication, for she refused to learn their primitive tongue, let alone speak it.

For you, it's kind of the way I felt when I was learning your tongue.

People say I should learn my native tongue, as well.

It did not seem to take us very long to learn their tongue, though, of course, I realize that it may really have been months.

"So, lady," he asked, with a nod of his bright head, "have you learned our tongue yet?"

They are a wild, half-civilized folk, and I saw no need to learn their tongue.

That you are here mostly to learn our tongue.

How can a barbarian learn our tongue in half a year?