Spanish

Spanish was a language that Ian tried to convince others he could speak. He once plied some very basic Spanish in a conversation with Maria, one of his employees.

However, when Tall Paul — someone fluent enough to read classics of Spanish literature — arrived, it became apparent that Ian didn't really speak meaningful amounts of the language. When questioned on the relative disparity between his and Paul's abilities, Ian tried to convince Jo that Paul couldn't speak Spanish. When Jo pushed back, he said, unable to finish the thought: "If it was, it was some kind of weird dialect. They have a lot of indigenous tribes and I think the locals ..."