=)

He looked among huge piles of books and papers.

He held two books in his hand, hesitated and asked.

"Do you read German?"
"Nein, Ich spreche nicht Deutsch."

"Do you read Finnish?"
"Ei, ma en puhu suomea."

=)

ps.
1.He had two books about multimodalities in German and Finnish wanting to lend me.
2.He is a nice man.