[Aleron looks up at the sound of someone muddling through what they're reading and quickly identifies who it is. Not that he's all that familiar with Bethany's friend, per se, but Fenris isn't a complete stranger. He walks over with a vaguely bemused half-smile.]

Common is a very bastardized language with borrowed grammar and loan words. Tevene or even Orlesian have far more standardized conjugation and fewer homophones.

[Look, the man missed his calling as a scholar, and languages is one of his pet subjects of study. For fun.]