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[Star Trek: TNG] Question about "The Inner Light"…

Did Picard know how to weave iron when he "woke up" as an iron weaver? Apparently he could speak the language (or heard it as English), but didn't know anything about the planet, culture, etc. How about his own job?
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Since the whole experience happened in his head, I'd always assumed the background knowledge of Kataan and its Ressikan culture was similarly "downloaded" to JLP when he interfaced with the probe.  Alternatively, they (Kamin's family) could have played up his amnesia and extended it to his work as well.