我的朋友吉姆没有学过日语,当他住在日本的时候他把日语学会了
因为这是他现在的感觉,所以是一般现在时,用knows,就是到现在他已经懂了日语,是在日本生活的时候学会的,he picked up while living in Japan省略了is that
What指代Japanese
所以完整的原句为
My friend Jimmy never learned Japanese, now he knows is that he picked Japnese up while he was living in Japan