It's a lot more obvious in hindsight. 'Chives' being a surname and 'anti' being a prefix and all of it being not so much one word as a slang-ish compound.

He's got this.

He's also got the ducked head of a moderately embarrassed language learner. "I have been learning for the last four years. In--" And he tries, for a second, to think of the translation. Really he does. "--in Gimnázium school. The-- second school?"

To be fair, English is the most ridiculous of his four languages. It's got the affective filter riding fairly high.

"But not-- speaking. Learning."

Actually being in an English-speaking 'country' had started for the first time this morning. Practical use was a hell of a lot harder than academic grappling.