With my Au Ra, I have decided to work more on displaying a cultural difference rather than having the language barrier be heavily impairing. At times he will forget a word, and use other words to describe it (sometimes ineffectively), but more often it'll be a failure to understand why people do certain things in certain ways that he is unfamiliar with and even disagrees with. Learning common eorzean in the time he's been in Eorzea (bit more than a year) is something I attribute to the want to survive, as such adapting so that he can more easily find work. He does remain illiterate for the most part, however. I also chose not to alter the way I write out his speech to make it more obvious that he has an accent, which comes down to me not feeling confident enough with English to feel like that I could consistently and realistically pull one off. I also really wanted to avoid doing things like having him speak about himself in third person. Rather I describe it on occasion in emotes that he speaks with a hint of an accent, and leave it at that.
