( Oops...he continues to step on conversational landmines. The more aware and sober Emil might make the connection, but the excitable and inebriated Emil just sees this as a helping moment. )

Help is hjälpa. Oh, do you know magic? ( The word for it in Swedish, he means -- not that he leaves a lot of space to note how stupid that question sounds. ) That's magi, which is important in our situation. Friend is vän.

( This may be more convenient than having to use a middleman, at least. Though that also means he doesn't get to look like a linguistic badass by magically knowing these words, even though anyone with a brain would know he just asked Tuuri, but.

It's...also awkward to want to tell Lalli something in Finnish while not knowing Finnish, so he would then need to ask Lalli what the Finnish translation would be, successfully nullifying his need to tell Lalli in Finnish as a means of impressing him. Fuck, knowing Finnish is going to the top of his list of wishes. )

Realistically, being fluent would mean learning every word. That would take so much time! Thank goodness for this telepathy translating in the meantime.