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Language Fluency Reveal
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There's something of a basic rule in fiction. If Alice can speak Bob's language but has been pretending not to understand him, and Bob genuinely can't understand her, the likelihood of Bob finding out she speaks his language depends on how necessary it is to move the plot forward. This manifests in three different ways. Slipping up: Alice will slip up and speak to Bob in his language. Alternatively, she may react to something he says in a way that makes it obvious she understands him. Getting caught: Bob overhears Alice talking to herself or to one of her friends in his language. Intentional reveal: Maybe Alice finds herself in a situation where she desperately needs to communicate with Bob and has no choice but to talk to him in the language he understands. Maybe Alice has reached her breaking point and is so infuriated, she wants Bob to understand her when she yells at him. Maybe Alice avoided talking to Bob in his language due to a lack of trust, but he has gained her trust and now she feels safe enough to talk to him in the language they both speak. Whatever the reason is, Alice decides to reveal to Bob that she can speak his language. Compare Bilingual Backfire for when Alice and Bob usually talk to each other in the same language and Alice reveals her fluency in another language Bob speaks and You Can Talk? for when a non-human character reveals it can talk at all. If Alice usually speaks to Bob in his language and reveals herself to be fluent in a language he doesn't speak, that’s Suddenly Bilingual. |
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Gate: After an incident with a flame dragon caused a number of civilian casualties, Itami is called to testify before the Diet, along with Tuka, Lelei, and Rory Mercury. Lelei is well-versed in Japanese at this point, and actually functions as an interpreter. However, when a politician, looking to score political points and make the JSDF look bad, tries to make a case that the JSDF abandoned the civilians to save their own skin, Rory Mercury surprises everyone by revealing in the hearing that she actually speaks fluent Japanese by attacking the politician directly ("Anta baka?!" note "Are you stupid?! in the original Japanese, "Are you a goddamned idiot!?" in the English dub). She then proceeds to demolish the politician's argument by accusing her of manipulating numbers. "A quarter of the people died? Three quarters were saved. Itami and his team did something that had never been done before. They neither hid nor ran away." The intensity of her testimony, plus the shock that she had learned Japanese in secret, had the needed impact and ended the hearing. | |
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In The Autobiography of Jane Eyre, Suzanna-Maria Ramirez Gonzalez speaks only Spanish in front of Jane or Grace Poole. Grace genuinely believes she doesn't understand English and this way, she bothers her way less. Suzanna eventually reveals to Jane that she actually speaks perfect English. | |
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The 13th Warrior: The Norsemen constantly talk about Ahmed in his presence, because he only knows English. This trope comes into play when he becomes able to understand Norse (albeit not without mentally translating it into English) merely from observing them, just in time to give a witty response after they've insulted his mother. | |
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Skins: In one episode, the group went to Russia. Anwar rescued a Russian woman from her abusive household and when she was in his room, he proceeded to talk about the sexual acts he'd like to perform with her. Turns out she spoke English and understood every word he said. | |
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The Simpsons: In "Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass", Homer invites the athletes enrolled in his Showboating Academy to dinner at his house, and basketball star Yao Ming (playing himself) feigns ignorance to get out of doing chores. | |
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In Lords of the Bow, Chen Yi provides transport to Khasar, Temuge, and Ho Sa. Chen Yi puts up a pretense of only speaking Chinese, but when they get to his house and the travellers begin discussing how to deal with him, he decides to reveal that he also speaks decent Mongolian. | |
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In The Fifth Elephant, Vimes notices an Uberwaldean guard who claims not to speak Morporkian watching him and realizes that he must understand Morporkian after all. Just to double-check, he tells his interpreter to tell the soldier that he has a fly on his nose, and sees his hand start to move toward his nose before he catches himself. | |
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Scrubs: When Marco was first introduced, he pretended to only speak Spanish to annoy Turk. Turk eventually goaded him into revealing he spoke English. | |
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Sh�gun (2024): In the final episode, the Ajiro headman Muraji is ordered by Toranaga to spill the beans to Blackthorne and reveals that he has actually been fluent in Portuguese all along, but had to pretend to not understand him until now in order to be continue spying on Yabushige for Toranaga. | |
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The Closer: In one episode, the suspect claimed that she didn't speak English, so Brenda had Martinez question her in Spanish. It turned out that the suspect spoke perfect English but barely spoke Spanish! | |
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Pocahontas: The Native Americans speak to each other in English, but when Pocahontas first meets John Smith, she speaks Powhatan, until some spiritual magic gets involved and bridges the language barrier. An ambiguous example, since it's not clear if her speaking Powhatan was meant to be Language Fluency Denial or if her and her tribe speaking English earlier was meant to be a case of Translation Convention. | |
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In Mary Stewart's The Merlin Trilogy, the title character is captured by some bandits who are discussing what to do with him, thinking he doesn't understand them. They'd been trying to start a fire and having no luck, because it'd been raining all day and the wood was soaked. When Merlin finally let them know he spoke their language, all he said was, "Stand away from the fire." Then he showed them who he was and what he could do to them by igniting a massive fire with a glance. | |
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In Frisky Dingo, ancient Chinese sweatshop worker Old Spice is eventually revealed to speak English after entire episodes of only communicating in Chinese and having Xander Crews (who knew he spoke English) translate for him. This only came to light after Killface insulted Old Spice's "car" (Crews misheard Old Spice, who was actually talking about his wife). | |
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American Dad!: Although Toshi understands English perfectly, he's far from fluent... at least that's what we're led to believe until the episode "A Roger Story", where he says "I speak fluent English and have the whole time." | |
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Southern Comfort: While being pursued by a band of vicious Cajun hunters, the National Guardsmen take a local Cajun trapper hostage under the suspicion the trapper is in league with their pursuers, though the trapper only speaks French. After most of the Guardsmen are killed, the trapper reveals to the two survivors that he can speak English and was in league with the hunters, but gives them directions to safety for being the only Guardsmen to be kind to him and protect him from his more abusive captors. | |
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In the Ménage à 3 strip for January 20, 2011 (marginally NSFW), Sandra is unconcerned about discussing her private life with Matt because she assumes that Senna, who is from Brazil, speaks "Brazilianese". She does, plus four other languages including English. | |
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Eastbound & Down: At the end of "Chapter 7", Kenny leaves Mexico and says goodbye to the neighbors he befriended, and has this conversation with the grandma: | |
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In George of the Jungle, the three African guides frequently insult and mock Lyle in Swahili, knowing he can't understand a word they're saying. At first it's believed they can't speak English, but later on it's revealed they are all fluent, and were hiding it just to annoy him. (It also reveals that some of their earlier insults, which seemed to coincidentally respond to something Lyle said, were in fact deliberate). | |
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Cousin Skeeter: Skeeter has just knocked over a T-Rex skeleton. A couple of women say in Portuguese, "The short one is in trouble" as they laugh amongst themselves. Skeeter replies in Portuguese "Hey! I'm not short! I'm still growing!" | |
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The Boss Baby: All babies can talk, but babble when adults are around. The Boss Baby is forced to drop the act around Tim when the latter overhears him talking on the phone. | |
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In the Death Note AU Those Who Stand for Nothing Fall for Anything L and his Childhood Friend B are at a party and begin to insult L's ex-boyfriend, Light Yagami (the Prime Minister of Japan) while he's standing right there with them because Light has led L to believe he doesn't speak a word of English. Later when he gets L alone Light casually informs him "I speak English, by the way." | |
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: Oblansk, the Bulgarian Minister for Magic, spends most of his few scenes at the Quidditch World Cup pretending not to understand English and letting Cornelius Fudge mime everything. He doesn't reveal he can speak English (albeit with a heavy accent) until the Irish team wins; at Fudge's incredulous reaction to the reveal that he was faking it and Fudge's actions in response, his only comment is "Vell, it vos very funny." | |
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Lost: Played for Drama. Sun-Hwa Kwon has been keeping the fact that she's fluent in English a secret from the other survivors. Sun reveals she speaks English to the rest of the survivors late into Season 1. Subverted in "Everybody Hates Hugo" when Hurley hears Jin speak English but it turns out it was All Just a Dream. |
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In the mystery novel 9 Dragons, Harry Bosch, who is trying to find his kidnapped daughter in Hong Kong, traces her to a cargo ship. He jumps on the cargo ship, grabs a Chinese Mook, and starts barking questions. When he gets no answer he says "Can you swim, asshole?", to which the Mook only replies "No speak." Bosch hesitates and the mook breaks out of the chokehold. When he comes back after Bosch with a knife he says "Can you swim, asshole?" | |
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Kim Possible: Mr. Nakasumi, a Japanese toy manufacturer, always communicates with Kim and Ron via his assistant, Miss Kyoko. Whenever he wants to say something to them he whispers it in her ear and she translates it to English. In the movie So The Drama he reveals that he actually does speak perfect English. He just likes whispering in a pretty woman's ear! | |
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In Office, Hong Kong businessman David challenges entry-level worker Kat by beginning a pitch to a group of American businessmen in English before shifting to Chinese and having Kat translate. David then discovers Kat can speak English more fluently than he can. | |
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Paulie: When Misha first meets the eponymous parrot, he offers him a piece of mango and asks him to say "mango". Paulie amazes him by spelling out the word, sarcastically asking him if he's happy now, and then complaining that he has been sold out for a piece of fruit. | |
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Lifeboat: Willi, the U-boat captain stuck on a lifeboat with a bunch of Americans, doesn't speak English—until a storm comes and he starts barking orders in perfect English. | |
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Rush Hour: When Carter and Lee first partner up, Carter (a fast-talking and chronically snarky LAPD officer) assumes that Lee (a Hong Kong officer that he was tasked to "babysit") doesn't speak a lick of English and offers to teach him some words while taking him out on what he frames as a sightseeing tour of Los Angeles. However, once they end up butting heads and get into a standoff — leading to their taxi driver pointing a gun at both of them — Lee defuses the situation by explaining in English that they're both officers, and he was showing Carter how to take a gun from a suspect. Carter gets ticked off that Lee never revealed that he spoke English, and Lee insists that Carter never truly asked — he simply came to his own conclusions before letting his own mouth run wild. And in the second movie, Carter tries to tell a Chinese taxi driver to follow Ricky Tan's car, but the driver keeps responding in Chinese. Frustrated, Carter gives him some money and asks, "You understand that?" The driver looks at the money and says, in English, "Now you're speaking my language." The third movie also exemplifies this trope when Carter first flirts with Genevieve in Paris. |
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The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: Jimmy's baby cousin Eddie can talk, but pretends he can't around adults until the end of "Clash of the Cousins" when Jimmy breaks his rattle in order to get him angry enough to talk in front of the adults. | |
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Bee Movie: Vanessa's reaction to hearing Barry the bee talk at first seems like a case of You Can Talk?, but she asks him "How'd you learn to do... the talking thing?", implying that she was surprised that he knew how to do it rather than surprised by his physical ability to do it. | |
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In The Boondocks' episode "The Red Ball", Huey and the other residents of Woodcrest are pitted against a team from China in a high stakes kickball game. The Chinese team captain Ming tells Huey that if she loses she might be sent to a labor camp. This manages to throw off his game until the captain's teammates talk to each other about the lie and insult his playing. Anyone with any knowledge of Huey's interests wouldn't be too surprised to know he understands Chinese. Cue Huey responding in kind, then beating the shit out of the Chinese team with the kickball. | |
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Alone, Together: Neither Jerom nor Danni can speak each other's language, but it turns out they both know a common trade language, with Danni hiding her fluency at first because Jerom was the enemy and only revealing it after she overhears him talking with some pirates about the end of the war (and realizing the pirates were trying to get them both killed). | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: Daenerys Targaryen has arrived in the slaver city of Astapor to buy an army with which she can invade Westeros and retake her family's throne, but the only language anyone speaks is High Valyrian. The Good Master that Daenerys is negotiating with has a scribe who relays the proposals between them, but either ignores or rewords Kraznys mo Nakloz's more sexual comments as Kraznys openly insults Dany from behind the language barrier. Once Daenerys has her army, she reveals that she could speak fluent High Valyrian this whole time due to it being her mother tongue (the Targaryens hail from Valyria just to the west of Slaver's Bay), then orders the army to exterminate the Good Masters and free every slave in the city. | |
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XO, Kitty: Min-ho pretends not to speak English when first meeting Kitty because he does not want to waste his breath on a stranger. This is his Establishing Character Moment as the Jerkass. Kitty knows that he is lying, but since they go to the same school, the viewers get to see the evidence later in the episode when he snarks at her in perfect English. | |
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In Scarface's Serenity, when Tony and Manny pretend not to understand English upon being caught with a stolen vehicle, the officer tricks Tony into revealing he understands English by asking him "Is that a spider crawling up your shirt?". Tony looks down. | |
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There is a funny strip in Niels where Niels is talking on the phone to his mom, in Danish. Duncan, getting impatient, tells Niels to hurry up in a... rather vulgar way. Turns out that even though Niels is speaking to his mom in Danish, she also speaks English. Oops! | |
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In the All in the Family episode "The Elevator Story", Archie is stuck in an elevator with several people, including a Puerto Rican man. He tries to use the elevator phone, while the man tries to get his attention. Archie says "Can somebody translate what I'm saying to this spic here?" The man responds: "Is not necessary, mister, this spic is speak English!" Archie, however, is completely unfazed. | |
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In the fourth book of The Helmsman Saga, Wilf is talking to the ruler of an allied nation about the quality of the ships that the Empire intends to send as aid. Suddenly, the ruler stops the translator and states that, due to the importance of the matter, he would rather speak directly. The Foreign Service man acting as the translator is absolutely baffled. | |
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Subverted in the Fresh Off the Boat episode "Where Are the Giggles?" where Grandma Huang, as the Ghost of Christmas, speaks to Marvin in English but it turns out it was All Just a Dream. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: Happens twice in "I'm With Stupid". SpongeBob pretends to be stupid to help Patrick impress his parents and pretends to only be able to talk in one to two word sentences, but drops the act for a moment to tell Patrick to meet him in the kitchen when Patrick starts to believe SpongeBob really is dumb and starts insulting him while he is in the room. Later, when SpongeBob completely drops the act to tell Patrick's parents that he was just pretending to be stupid to make Patrick look smart, they think Patrick taught him how to talk in complete sentences even though they already heard him say "Patrick, meet me in the kitchen" earlier. They are actually complete strangers and only thought they were Patrick's parents because he called them Mom and Dad. In "Rock Bottom", SpongeBob meets a fish who communicates by blowing raspberries. After SpongeBob thanks him for helping him get back to Bikini Bottom, he says "You're welcome". |
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In El Goonish Shive, Nanase tries to get Melissa to leave by telling her in Japanese that she doesn't understand English. When Melissa asks her a question Nanase slips up and answers in English. | |
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Asterix: In the story Asterix and the Goths, Getafix is kidnapped by the Goths and brought to their chief. Speaking through his interpreter, the chief demands that Getafix brew him magic potions. Getafix refuses but the interpreter, having been threatened with death if Getafix doesn't agree, lies and says he agrees. But as Asterix and Obelix arrive to free Getafix, the interpreter is taken captive while trying to escape when the Gauls surrender. As they are brought before the chief, Getafix reveals that he fluently speaks Gothic and that the interpreter has been lying, much to the shock of the interpreter. | |
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Invoked in Dragon Ball, which makes full use of Aliens Speaking English. When Frieza asks a Namekian a question about where to find the other Dragon Balls, the Namekian plays dumb and only responds in his native language. Frieza sees right through it and asserts that the alien start speaking to him in a shared language. | |
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Pearls Before Swine: When Rat becomes a pet psychic and uses it to his advantage by straight-up lying to the pets' owners about what they're thinking for his own gain, a parrot named Pepe winds up exposing his being a fraud, implying that Pepe had been pretending to not be able to talk intelligently. | |
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In Amazing Fantasy, when Izuku knocks out Peter Parker when he thinks the latter is trying to mug him, Peter tries to ask him in Japanese what just happened, not knowing that all Japanese people speak English. Peter feels embarrassed for making a doofus of himself when Izumi tells him he knows English. | |
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Aladdin: Iago the Parrot can talk intelligently but pretends he can't around everyone but Jafar... until the climax. | |
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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door: The birds will talk intelligently if you hide. But if you're not hiding, they don't and the parrot says the stock parrot phrases. The parrot drops the act after the end of the chapter, though. | |
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In Hangmen Also Die!, Czaka doesn't speak in order to allay suspicions of collaborating with the Nazis. In fact, not speaking German had been his alibi once previously, when the Resistance was betrayed two years ago. Czaka laughs at a joke told in German, revealing that he understands the language (not speaking German had cleared him of suspicions of betraying the Resistance previously). He unsuccessfully tries to pass it off as laughing at something else. | |
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Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted: When the zookeepers run towards DuBois to thank her for returning the animals (she's actually about to saw Alex's head off and thinks she's in trouble), she hides the saw behind her back, looks confused and says "Qu'est-ce que c'est?" She later gives a speech to them and the zoogoers in English. | |
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Breaking Bad: In the episode "Salud" , Jesse is teaching a cartel how to make Walter's meth. Jesse doesn't know Spanish, but picks up on enough words and body language to know that one of the scientists isn't exactly singing his praises. Jesse then calls the scientist an asshole while telling the translator what to say to him next. The scientist reveals he speaks English and was Insulting from Behind the Language Barrier, but Jesse doesn't care and just throws it back in his face: | |
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Books of the Raksura: When the Raksura travel with a crew they distrust, they stick to the Common Tongue and pretend not to understand the crew's native Kedaic in order to eavesdrop on them Hiding Behind the Language Barrier. It gets them some useful information from people who do turn out to be enemies, but makes for an awkward confession to the ones who were honest and trustworthy all along. | |
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Warrior (2019): The Chinese characters talk to each other in fluent English, but when white people are around they'll either talk to each other in subtitled Chinese and pretend not to understand English, or talk to the white people in broken English. Ah Sahm drops the act after being arrested and talks to Sergeant Bill O'Hara in English. The latter notes that with his eyes closed Ah Sahm could sound like anyone, while at the same time not picking up the obvious lesson one might take about racial division. Ah Sahm's Surprisingly Good English shocks so many throughout the series that it just becomes amusing by the tenth or eleventh time a character expresses surprise. | |
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