"That's totally true, yeah, work isn't everything. Capitalism isn't the ultimate destiny of humankind, mirabile dictu." That helped him get a clearer picture of what she was about—more attached to friends and hobbies than work, probably, although from what she'd said earlier it seemed that family didn't figure in there. A rough sketch with a lot of blank areas, but still.
"Uh, which ones am I fluent in, it's a little hard to count. I'm rock solid confident in my French, and I'd say fluent in Italian, Inuktitut—I mentioned the thing about working in the Arctic. I think I still have a solid grip on Gaelic from when I studied it as a kid, but it's been awhile. I'm working on learning a couple of others. And Latin and Greek, but dead languages don't really count, right? I don't have a time machine to go practice my pronunciation with native speakers. And no," he added, "none of this has sunk in like, at all. I was asking because I was hoping that you were ahead of me in processing it, but I should probably ask one of the grizzled old veterans who's been here for longer, right?"