He could have helped with the repairs! That at least, he understood what to do and wouldn't have left him feeling so lost.

Anakin mulled it over, thinking. He knew Huttese fluently, he knew Basic almost fluently - at least in speaking it. He could do basic math, it was needed for his work, but he really couldn't do it by working it out on a holodoc, he'd always had to do it in his head or scratched out in the dirt. So learning to read and such wasn't something he objected to. But..."I'm going to have to be sitting still a lot, aren't I?" Let's really focus on what he objected to.