Mein Freund...? What? Jim knows enough German to puzzle his way through that, but it still doesn't make sense. They haven't met before, have they? Or... shit, this is probably someone who knows the other Jim. But his vocabulary is nowhere near expansive enough to begin to explain that, and he grimaces a little.

"Uh... English, ja," he says hesitantly, running through the annoyingly brief German phrases he knows to try to come up with something useful. "Spreken Sie, uh, Russisch?" Hey, it's a long shot, but if this guy knows German and maybe-Swedish then it's worth a try, right? "Я думаю, вы приняли меня за кого-то другого."