Mina wasn't sure how she was suppose to react to the gift, because technically how does one feel when the gift is something so mundane.   But then on the other hand, hell yes, now she could at least try to speak to Tarek and make her thoughts understood.   When they got to the hotel again she was nearly bouncing at the idea she could begin learning.<em>Who thought, me... getting excited to learn a language. </em>It was humorous to her anyway, even though she was korean american, she didn't speak a single word of Korean and had refused to learn despite her parents being both fluent speakers.   Once in the elevator she gripped Tarek's hand with an overpour of excitement watching the numbers climb before she was racing out of the elevator ready for him to set it up.<strong> "Come on come on..Tar-rek." </strong>She said his name a little better this time, but it wasn't fully there yet.   She at least got the wording right to a degree.<br/><br/>She followed him to the desk sitting down before he even had unwrapped it enough to put it in the laptop.   Once he hit play though she lost all focus on him instead completely absorbed by  the programing as it started off simple.   EAch time they said a word that correlated with a picture she'd repeat it over and over again until it sounded like the recorded voice.   He startled her when he came to the table and she looked up at him as if she was shocked to see him sitting down beside her.   She took the bowl with a nod and turned back to the screen, obviously absorbed.   She ate without really looking at what was in the bowl after all it's not like she cared what it was, as long as it was regular food and not that kibble.   Head tilted as she tired to say  the word<em>*water*</em>, which took her multiple tries to even make it sound right.   It was obvious that there were some words that had specific noises that she couldn't make as a human.