Regardless of whether its wishful thinking, I think we should first devote our resources to minimizing how we are harming these (and other) creatures. To know this we don’t have to know their language.
Imagine some cosmic being completely messing up your house while trying to kindly ask you what things tend to annoy you.
Having said that, I enjoyed reading this arficle. I felt it was written with care and even love, and there were cute little references that I liked.