Chiana watches him curiously for a few seconds, then smiles, and tells him, "I'm not speaking 'English', whatever that is." He's probably had an injection of translator microbes and doesn't even know it, the way she sees it. "There might not be a word for 'spaceship' in your language, though." That wouldn't surprise her; humans don't seem particularly advanced to her, as a rule. So she tries another tack. "Vessels that travel through space? Up in the stars? Lots of those where I'm from."