“Sprechen sie” means “Do you speak ___?”. “Sprechen sie deutsch”, for instance, means “Do you speak German?”
Apparently the sleep learning endeavor was well funded for awhile, before it was realized that it’s a pretty futile effort. Maybe if they could do an Inception type thing and have their dreams teach them… That’d be awesome.

Sleep learning would be more fun though.
Listening to NPR whilst asleep can cause some interesting dreams. Does that count?
I would’ve got in trouble at high school for trying to practice sleep learning. Do you know what I learn’t last night in my sleep? Nothing.