Learning a new language without any reference

manpreet Best Answer 3 years ago

In my world the characters find themselves in a new land. They do not understand the locals nor do the locals understand them. How could these characters learn to understand the locals withing a month or two considering neither have ever had touch with each other's laungage?

• I've thought of the locals having a certain herbal preparation that alters the brain making it able to understand them, but how would that actually go about?
• It is also worth mentioning that the locals of this place posses a certain alien artifact, could it hold a power to make them understand each other and, if so, how would it do it?
• Would it be possible for the characters to just learn the new laungage just by being among the locals for a longer period of time? Is something like that plausible?