abandon all hope for a pet cat translator /s
We may not be able to translate a cat, but they can read us like a book, and wife & I honestly believe they understand much of our language.
Our cat spells. She used to go her food bowl everytime we said “food”. So we started to spell it: F - O - O - D, now when hearing it she goes to her food bowl. She understands other words and their spelling similarly. Scary!