Mssr Vedici was the conduit for my learning - unfortunately he is left-handed and I am not, myself, so my letters are not precisely as he would write them. Clumsier. I must teach my right hand what my left has learned. But he was cooperative enough, and a skilled translator, which was what I required. I believe the Artemaeus boy would have been most unsuitable to my needs, as he was unsettled in the extreme by the casting.

( And then by her chillingly delivered threat to have him gagged if he didn't hush and let her focus. Petra is not of Thedas; she has no understanding of how charged it is to threaten a mage with such a thing, here, only that the mouthy little prick was shattering her focus when she'd politely requested he not do so several times already. )

An imperfect strategy - I'd not have wished to learn the trade language here that way, I built myself a foundation without magic before I began to use such short-cuts - but useful, so far as it goes. And I will improve, in time, on my own.