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Language of Love
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One coupling sometimes found in fiction is when a man and a woman pair up despite not having any kind of common language. They still manage to have all of the other aspects of a relationship. Usually the man speaks the language that the audience is expected to understand. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Not to be confused with Everything Sounds Sexier in French, which is occasionally used with this trope. Examples: |
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Switched at Birth starts Bay/Emmett off this way. Subtitles are used so non-ASL-speaking viewers can understand Emmett's signing. | |
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There's a bit of humor about this in Coupling. In one episode, Jeff (a character constantly falling victim to Digging Yourself Deeper, which actually occurs in that episode) flirts with an Israeli woman who speaks no English, and the other characters actually suggest that this is a good pairing since she wouldn't realize the stupid things he was saying. Things still go wrong. To this end, the Word of God regarding the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue has Jeff in Israel, pretending he speaks only Hebrew and thereby avoiding embarrassing conversations with anyone. | |
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Louie has the "Elevator" arc where he has a relationship with his neighbor's Hungarian niece who doesn't speak English. | |
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The film Love Actually, with the English writer Jamie and his Portuguese maid Aurélia. Neither of them know the other one's language and both of them try to learn it, on Jamie's part with hilarious results). They do manage to fall in love enough to make Jamie propose before they're able to fully communicate with each other. | |
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In the Ah! My Goddess fanfiction Haloes, Urd has a nasty bout with aphasia that, Truth in Television, prevents her to express verbally and in written words. Despite being restricted to complex charades and wordless music to convey her emotions, she manages to score with Keichi and heal, translating her Starfish Language in human words again. | |
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In Red Tails, Lightning speaks no Italian and Sofia no English, presented almost entirely without subtitles. | |
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Stand Still, Stay Silent: Swedish Emil and Finnish Lalli's Odd Friendship runs on a platonic version of this. It gets deconstructed to a degree, as they start learning each other's languages after their first on-panel "fight". However, another one happens a few weeks later due to the fact that the better verbal communication is making the reasons they should in theory not be able to get along surface. Lalli is a mage who Had to Be Sharp and Emil is a Flat-Earth Atheist who's had a comparatively sheltered life. The thing they do share is a lack of social skills. | |
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In Henry V, where Henry married Katherine, who speaks almost exclusively French. There is a cute courting scene when she keeps misusing certain words. | |
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Pocahontas has Grandmother Willow, who urges the leading protagonists: "Listen with your heart, you will understand..." | |
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The Twilight Zone (1959): episode "Two" involves lone male and female survivors from opposing armies falling in love in a post-apocalyptic town. "Probe 7, Over and Out" featured a man who'd crash-landed on an alien planet and a woman who was stranded there. They didn't speak the same language, but they fall in love. To make the above plot even more Anvilicious, their names are Adam and Eve. Guess what the planet gets called? (Hint: Irth.) |
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Call the Midwife: Len and Conchita Warrens. He's from Poplar, she's from Spain. He speaks only English, she speaks only Spanish. This does not, however, stop them from having 25 children together and be a Happily Married couple. | |
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The webcomic Tsunami Channel, with a guy who doesn't speak Japanese and a girl who doesn't speak English. Somehow they understand each other, though, much to the confusion of the rest of the cast. Mind you, this later become a plot point... | |
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Seinfeld: In "The Old Man," George was attracted to the titular old man's housekeeper specifically for this reason. After all, if she can't understand anything he says, then he can't screw things up with her by saying something stupid. | |
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In Henry IV Part 1, with Mortimer and his wife, who speaks only Welsh. | |
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In The Fifth Element Leeloo knows only The Divine Language, but learns English rapidly. The romance was already beginning to blossom from her big bada boom into Korben's cab. | |
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For a human-mermaid example, it's implied in Splash, that Alan has sex with (a very willing) Madison in the elevator before she learns English. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire features Dany and Drogo, neither of whom speak more than a word of the other's language when they're married. They do both eventually become passably fluent in both languages, but they still have sex every single night in the meantime. | |
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While no languages are involved, The Piano features a romance between a mute woman and an illiterate man. | |
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Averted humorously in Wayne's World, when Wayne Campbell "learns" Cantonese in order to speak to his love interest. After purporting to have learned Cantonese, there are scenes where Wayne stares awkwardly at the camera without speaking, while long English paragraphs of complex, translated dialogue appear in the subtitles. | |
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In the movie How to Murder Your Wife, Jack Lemmon's character wakes up one day with a hangover and a beautiful wife, who speaks only Italian. He does eventually fall in love with his wife. | |
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Papillon took on not one but two wives in the South American tribe he was sheltered in. By the time he married the second, he could rudimentarily communicate with the first wife. But when he married Lali they were still communicating in gestures and nods. | |
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In Stargate, Daniel Jackson falls in love with Sha'uri (Sha're in the television show) despite Daniel having not learned the language of her planet... yet. Arguably, the scene where they finally learn to translate is when they fall in love. | |
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Subverted in Better Off Dead, where the love interest pretends to only speak French so she will not have to talk to the family she's rooming with, but reveals that she speaks English later to the John Cusack character. | |
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On Lovesick, Dylan briefly dates a German tourist named Agata. He spends most of the episode thinking that she's Danish (and trying to learn Danish so he can talk to her). It turns out Angus actually speaks German... | |
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Flyboys between Frenchwoman Lucienne and Blaine, an American pilot with the French Air Service. | |
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A subplot in Gravity's Rainbow features a relationship between a Russian soldier (the father of Tchitcherine) and a black African woman. Using scraps of their respective languages, the two of them develop "the beginnings of a new tongue, a pidgin which they were perhaps the only two speakers of in the world." | |
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The TV show Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place plays on this when Pete falls in love with a beautiful woman who only speaks French. When someone is finally able to translate a conversation, he discovers that she is a terrible person and a racist. | |
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Genshiken between Madarame and Occidental Otaku Angela. | |
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Subverted in the movie Birthday Girl, where a character gets a Russian Mail-Order Bride. While in this case he does help her learn English, they still couple like stoats in the meantime. However, she speaks English all along and is part of a Honey Trap kind of scam. | |
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In Margin for Error, Moe manages to make a date with Frieda, despite German being her only language: | |
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An episode of Night Court had Bull trying to make time (in his own gently loopy way) with a comely, if skeptical, female Swede. She finally comes around, and as the episode ends, starts hitting on him in Swedish. Bull's cheerful comment: "Aw, shuddup." | |
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