ospalh quoted Conquerors’ Pride by Timothy Zahn (Conquerors Saga, #1)
... after they’d learned some English.
— Conquerors’ Pride by Timothy Zahn (Conquerors Saga, #1) (Page 45 - 46)
What? How do we know the author is an Usonian? He expects everybody else to learn English for the character’s convenience. The one prisoner learning the Too’rrr language (if that’s the name of the planet/race)? Bah, no.