According to a source posted elsewhere in the discussion here (https://www.historylink.org/File/9065 https://www.historylink.org/File/9065), communication might

According to a source posted elsewhere in the discussion here (https://www.historylink.org/File/9065 https://www.historylink.org/File/9065), communication might not have been such a difficulty as they had started learning English years before that. > In Macao, the British government handed the sailors over to Karl Gutzlaff, a German missionary and linguist. Gutzlaff continued their training in English and also enlisted their help in translating parts of the bible into Japanese.