This time with the team is discussing languages. This is part of a small three shot in which the team is having a week of special training.

Anyway hope you enjoy and thank you reading.

Robyn out.

The team was lounging in the main room watching static. It was the weekend, meaning a relaxing day at the cave and more importantly, no school! Artemis and Wally were fighting over who knows what, M'gann was trying to convince Conner to change the channel, Conner was resisting M'gann, Kaldur was reading a book and Robin was laughing at Wally and Artemis. A normal day at the cave all in all.

Black Canary chose that moment to walk in. The team had been waiting for her arrival as they had been informed that they would be going through a week of 'special' training, although Black Canary had refused to tell them any details. The group stood up, finishing what they were doing, to pay attention to the elder hero. They had all been excited for this 'special' training (it would be nice to not spend time being thrown/throwing each other onto the floor for once) although they were a bit nervous to see what it would include.

"Sit down. This week instead of focusing on strength or physical abilities, we will be working on mental abilities. Starting with languages." Black Canary announced as she sat on an arm chair.

Everyone settled down, prepared to listen to Black Canary. Kaldur sat in an armchair, M'gann and Conner shared a sofa, Artemis and Wally shared another sofa and Robin had the last armchair.

"First, why are languages important?" Black Canary asked looking around at the young heroes.

"You can use them to find your way in foreign countries or worlds." Kaldur stated.

"You can find out information on missions even though the people don't speak English." Robin added.

"You can make friends all across the world." M'gann smiled.

"They help you pass in school if you are to busy doing hero work to study." Artemis shrugged.

"You can live in foreign countries or can fit in if you go undercover." Conner replied.

"Emm, you can ... You can ... I have nothing. Why do you guys get all the good answers?" Wally whined.

"All good answers" Black Canary ignored Wally who was pouting slightly (until Artemis elbowed him). "Now we will go around and see what languages you know. Then chose to learn or revise one as a group for now." She continued looking around at the team. "Artemis, why don't you start?"

Everyone turned to look expectedly at Artemis, who shifted in her seat, uncomfortable with all of the attention. "Well I know English, obviously, and I know Vietnamese. I am learning Spanish in school and if it counts I can cuss like a sailor in Italian, Russian and French." Artemis listed, ticking them off her fingers.

"Where did you learn to cuss in all those languages?" M'gann asked curiously.

"You hear lots of different stuff on the streets of Gotham." Artemis shuddered.

Robin hi-fived her. "Go Gotham!"

"That's really good Artemis. Now Wally, what about you?" Black Canary nodded to Artemis, then turned to look at Wally.

"I know English and I'm learning Spanish in school too, I'm really good at it." He boasted. "Oh I also know a little Romani." Wally said awkwardly, slightly ashamed that he didn't know as many as Artemis. Robin grinned at him for the Romani though.

Black Canary smiled reassuringly at him. Then turned to the next person. "Conner, how about you?"

"The G-nomes taught me English, French and they had started teaching me Spanish before I escaped. I am also learning Latin in school." Conner shrugged.

"Brilliant Conner." Black Canary nodded. "M'gann?"

"I know Martian, English and like Conner I am learning Latin in school." M'gann said happily.

"Thank you M'gann. Kaldur?"

"I only know Atlantian and English, though I would love to learn more." Aqualad replied politely.

"And Robin?" Black Canary's small smile grew into a Cheshire cat sized grin, he already knew a bit about Robin's language skills.

"Well..." Robin scrunched up his eyebrows and started to count on his fingers, but soon ran out of fingers to count on. "I know English, Russian, French, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Latin, Romani, Romanian, German, Swahili, Arabic, Mandarin, Vietnamese, American sign language and Japanese. I'm trying to learn Portuguese currently." He looked thoughtful for a second. "Yep, that's them all."

He looked up to see the shocked expressions on his teammates. Black Canary's grin was threatening to split her face in half.

"Oh and Wally if you are so good at Spanish, then what answer this. ¿Te gusta el arquero verde a tu lado? Y le vas a preguntar en una cita y besarla?" Robin smirked. (Do you love the green archer beside you? And will you ask her on a date and kiss her?).

"Ehh, ¿Sí?" Wally replied unsure, he had only understood a few words in the sentence, plus Robin had spoke too fast for him. (Yes?).

Robin started laughing drawing weird looks from everyone who didn't understand Spanish. Artemis looked split between laughing and being disturbed as she had understood most of what Robin had said. Black Canary simply smiled.

"Wait, why do both you and Wally know Romani?" Conner asked Robin. Which was a fair question, it wasn't exactly a common language to know.

"Well it's my first language and both Wally and Roy had an experience that would have been made easier if they had known Romani, so they decided to learn it in case something like it happened again." Robin replied smoothly. Conner nodded deciding to accept that vague answer, they weren't likely to get anymore of the secretive hero.

"So now you all have to choose a language to learn and a teacher." Black Canary smiled at the team. "I suggest Robin, as he is one of the best people with languages out of the League or anyone associated with the League, and he is a very good teacher."

The team looked at each other before Artemis voiced their agreement out loud. "So we all agree Robin is our teacher?" Everyone nodded and Robin pouted a little. He had wanted to have a break, but didn't really mind acting as a teacher.

"What language though?" M'gann asked.

"What about Romani seeing as it is his first language and in case we get into a similar situation as Wally and Roy did?" Kaldur asked. "It would have been helpful to understand Robin after he was hit with that language ray last month." Robin winced remembering that, it had taken several days for it to wear off.

"No! Ehh, sorry guys but I don't feel comfortable teaching it to you. Can you pick something else please?" Robin exclaimed looking up at them with wide eyes like a baby seal. Baby seal eyes were like an army of puppies with their head tilted to the side and their eyes wide open and a thousand other cute things, in other words, adorable. Everyone instantly melted at that look.

"Well, I guess we can learn something else." M'gann said.

"Thank you." Robin nodded at her.

"What about Latin as some of us are already learning that? Plus it is the root of many European languages." Wally suggested.

Everyone looked at him shocked. "You said something smart!" Artemis shouted trying to get over her surprise.

Wally looked at her annoyed. "I'm not stupid!"

"Yeah, he's actually a science geek!" Robin laughed.

"Hey, at least I'm not a maths nerd!" Wally shouted back.

"Boys, calm down. Robin how about you start with some phrases that would be useful to know. Conner and M'gann can assist." Black Canary stepped in.

"Well..." Robin launched into a bunch of phrases and the team quickly discovered that Robin was actually a really good teacher.

The team continued to learn Latin for the rest of the day, only stopping when Batman came to take Robin away and Wally and Artemis had to go home.

Later, when they went on missions in foreign countries, they found that they could understand some things that people said (or make educated guesses at least), as many languages were based on Latin.

Soon, the team were really good at Latin, not quite as good as Robin, but still really good. Robin's teaching also helped them work on other languages, making things easier for them. Languages were after all, very useful and a good way to exercise your brain. It also helped Conner and M'gann's Latin grades in school.