003-Lessons

She wasn't very good at it. Thankfully he was a very patient person. She hadn't expected him-Beast Boy of all people-to know a language that she didn't.

It was an accident that they even found out that he knew how to speak Swahili. Starfire had just decided randomly that she wanted to learn the language of the animals and kissed him. Than she started speaking Swahili.

Robin asked him where he learned it. Beast Boy said he had lived in Africa and learned it there. He didn't give anymore info, but it was nice to know he was sharing something. She didn't expect to be tearing her hair out, because Starfire loved the accent that the language had and was even more surprised when she found herself standing at his door, asking him to teach her all about Swahili.

So here she was, her 'lessons' with him were closing in on about three weeks, and she had only learned about thirty or so words. She couldn't roll her tongue well, and she stumbled on the words a lot, but he was being nice about it and wisely didn't make fun of her. Once or twice Cyborg or Robin would come in, but mostly it was just them.

That was nice. By the end of the month, Beast Boy had given her over one hundred words and she was beginning to pronounce and speak them fluently. And when she walked in for breakfast one morning and greeted him in Swahili, his smile couldn't have gotten any bigger. She didn't even shrug off his hug, and she had to admit-he was a very patient person. If only she could find that sort of thing when Robin began making her teach him Latin.

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