>> slahi: yes.liams: guantanamo. >> slahi: guantanamo bay. >> williams: about 3,800 miles-- >> slahi: yes. >> williams: in that direction? >> slahi: i say, "goodbye. i hope never to see you again." >> williams: before we explain how slahi ended up in guantanamo in the first place, we'll tell you how a talent for languages helped him survive there. how much english did you speak when you landed in guantanamo? >> slahi: almost none. >> williams: in the office of his new apartment in mauritania, mohamedou slahi showed us how he learned english in guantanamo. he reads and writes his fourth language with some help from the u.s. navy. where did you get those glasses? >> slahi: these glasses i got from navy hospital in guantanamo bay. thank you, doctors. and they had choices. and i took the ugliest one. >> williams: you-- you chose the-- >> slahi: as a sign of protest. >> williams: he was his own teacher in guantanamo, soaking up new vocabulary wherever he could. >> slahi: i'm letting you now into my world