"Most of them. It's like this." Alastair set his bottle down so he could gesture while he talked. "I have to hear or read the language first, and then I can respond in it. But in a place like this where we get monsters and space robots and medieval elfy guys and stuff, if it's a language humans can't speak, I can only understand it." He sniffed a bit. "Which is weird. But it doesn't happen a lot."