ill do it . i have mod experience <| sep |> It also literally says MD and Mini Disc on there . <| sep |> I think sometimes people mean it in a good way . Like once you maybe looked too skinnyunderfed , but now you have curves and have a nice body ? I ' m not sure it may mean other things , but that ' s the only way i ' ve heard it . Not trying to offend anyone ! Just saying it could ' ve been a good thing . <| sep |> 1 . The gift is the language itself . She ' s seeing herself teach the linguistics of the Heptapod language to her class , rather than her normal lectures . It ' s foresight into her future successes following her feat of translating the Heptapod language and successfully diffusing the so called Alien Crisis . 2 . They say they need humanity ' s help in 3000 years . By the film , it ' s apparent that the Heptapods see time differently from humans , in a nonlinear fashion . More than that , they actually struggle to think in a linear fashion noted when the mathematicians and scientists move to nonlinear mathematics faster than algebra , for instance . This is where the hypothesizing begins , but I ' d assume in 3000 years the Heptapods arrive at an issue that can only be solved linearly , and for it they ' ll need the humans help . As an exchange , they offer their language , which will allow those who learn their language fluently , like Louise , which has rewired her brain to the extent that learning a new language can do so to see time the way the way they do , nonlinearly . It ' s why when she starts to learn the language she gets foresight into what her life is going to become .