Heavens not made enough

His only response to her first attempt at pronouncing was a chuckle, making a small frown crease her features. Had she said it right? Was there something funny with her pronunciation? Of course she wasn't going to have perfect articulation with these new sounds, and sure, she wasn't going to be particularly fast at speaking. Though breaking the words up into syllables seemed to help her, and trying was the most important thing, right? Currently, all the words she spoked didn't even sound or feel like a language, like they weren't words at all. All she heard were sounds, but one day, she would be able to speak it and hear it just like she did with English.

When he ducked his head to rest it beneath her chin, a small smile tugged at her lips. She nuzzled into his cheek before he finished pulling away. "Kimi...haike...menda," she repeated softly yet slowly, finishing with a firm nod. The part on "you" and "you are" made no sense to her; his words drifting into thin air. Surely that didn't matter right now; she could learn it at a later date. Trying to repeat his words and commit them to memory was enough for her to handle. "What about goodbye, and thank you, and sorry?" She just wanted to learn more!