Frank shook his head, because her signing was good for him trying to figure things out. She was, understandably, much more adept than Lisa who had just been picking it up. Frank didn't think that there was shorthand or dumbing down in ASL like there was in a lot of other languages. He just had to keep up.

Occasionally he would ask Say that again or Type that gloss for me, but he kept up for the most part.

Then, when she paused, he rather clumsily set his phone down and asked, "is your family okay? Back home?"