They don't normally talk, Slash is just... kind of eccentric and obsesses over being seen as an equal.

[The Weavile scoffs, running a clawed hand over his feathers.]

I prefer the term "dedicated", or perhaps persistent!

[Cue eyeroll.]

Yours could probably learn if she wanted to, but to put things into perspective, Slash has been at this for about a year, and he's only just now getting his L's down.