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Most people find it hard work to achieve native-level fluency in just one foreign language, even when they're a full-time student of it, but characters in stories might speak thirty languages well enough to be mistaken for a native speaker in each. This character might learn the local language fluently just by chatting while playing cards each evening for a few weeks, or perhaps due to having taken evening classes for a month when they were twenty years younger, they are able to win debates on metaphysics in a particular language. At the very least, they read the Genius Book Club books in the original language, even if that language is a dead language.
Sometimes there may be justification for this — perhaps it's a superpower, perhaps the character is immortal (and thus had the time to learn the languages the regular way), or perhaps they had an Upgrade Artifact. Sure, some people genuinely are good at languages, but sometimes it shows a lack of research — the author is not aware that learning a foreign language properly can be quite difficult and time-consuming (perhaps because the author has never properly attempted to learn a second language themselves).
This is sometimes introduced via Suddenly Always Knew That; "Whoa, you speak Finnish? Mitä ihmettä?note Finnish language for "What the heck?" You never mentioned that!" "You Never Asked."
The common misconception that young children are better at learning languages than older children, adults, or teenagers makes this trope easier to justify if the character in question was either A) raised in a highly multilingual environment or B) a Child Prodigy who learned languages for fun when they were four years old.
Such a character may be a Cunning Linguist, but that's a character role rather than a trait. This may also be a trait of The Face: they know ten languages instead of fighting styles like The Hero. If the character's fluency in every language is never explained, that's Inexplicable Language Fluency.
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The Travelers in The Pendragon Adventure are truly omnilingual. From ten (or seven, depending on how you see it) different worlds. Of course, it is done in a rather unique way: they hear all languages as their own, and they speak their own language but it is somehow transformed into whatever language the person they're speaking with can understand. It is explained that this is possible because the Travelers are incarnated spirits from the collective souls of humanity so they can subconsciously use the energy of the collective to power some magic translation mechanic.
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In Betty en NY, Betty can speak five languages (including English and Spanish), however, she has a hard time finding a job due to her nerdy appearance.
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In The Elements of Friendship, Twilight — who was already bilingual as a result of her father being of German heritage — has learned many languages over the years during her studies, aided by her Eidetic Memory.
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Meng is an interesting case. He can speak English, his native Tongan, and other languages, though, in character, he chose not to most of the time.
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Worm:
Arbiter can learn languages exceptionally fast as part of her enhanced social intelligence.
Contessa can also speak any language as one of the many applications of her power which comes in handy for her as she is from an alternate Earth and doesn't know how to speak any of our languages normally.
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit's Olivia Benson speaks English, Italian, some Spanish and French, and is able to read the Miranda warnings in at least two other languages. In one episode, without being able to hear her, Fin knew she was speaking Italian to a European colleague thanks to the Italians Talk with Hands trope.
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Wonder Woman: Warbringer: Diana speaks English, Bulgarian, and Greek in the story and mentions she speaks every language on Earth.
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The Autobiography of Jane Eyre: Miss Blanche Ingram is a model and serious businesswoman, and she claims she's fluent in eight languages. However, at one party she owns to her friend Warren she hated when her Nanny used to make him "conjugate, conjugate, conjugate" as a kid.
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Wordwitches in The Witchlands have the ability to speak and understand every language in existence as part of their powerset.
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Similarly, in The Forbidden Kingdom, a 20th-century kid from L.A. (who happens to be a fan of classic chop-socky movies) lands... literally... in Mythic China. When he first awakens, he can't understand anyone, which proves disconcerting when a group of unpleasant soldiers start yelling orders at him. Jackie Chan's character arrives, defeats the soldiers with Drunken Boxing and tries to talk to our hero.
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How Friendship Accidentally Saved Magical Britain: Tom speaks several languages other than his native English and can read even more than that, which he learned so that he could read tomes of Dark magic from other cultures. One of these languages is Mandarin Chinese, and he's apparently fluent enough in speaking that to cringe at Fred's pronunciation of Chinese-language spells. German, the language of the country that Tom claims to have been living in for the first decade-plus of his life, is apparently not one of his languages, although he does make attempts to rectify that. He also winds up learning to understand "car", the particular Starfish Language used by the flying Ford Anglia that once belonged to the Weasleys, and he puts his language skills to work redeveloping the twins' audiobook spell to read books in ten other languages.
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Local Hero. Danny Oldsen knows a ton of them, and Mac basically has to ask him if there's a language he doesn't know.
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The Mighty Thor: All Asgardians, and probably all deities in the Marvel Universe, can speak every language thanks to a handy little ability called the Allspeak, in which what they say is understood by every species in their own native language. This rather makes sense for a race of gods. After all, it's pretty difficult to tell your followers what to do if they can't understand a word you say.
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Shuu Tsukiyama from Tokyo Ghoul is prone to gratuitous foreign words, leaving many fans wondering where he even knew what he was saying. However, his father's diary reveals that he's a prodigy that took an interest in foreign languages at a young age because of his father's work. As the heir to an international business conglomerate, it makes sense for him to have a grasp of numerous languages. Besides his native Japanese, he's spoken English, French, Italian, and Spanish. This trope comes into play, however, when he reveals that he's fluent in German when responding to Kanae's Dying Declaration of Love.
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X-Men: One of the benefits of having so many telepaths running around the various teams of X-Men is that they've mastered how to hit field operatives with short-duration language programming, mostly by reading the minds of people in the area they're visiting. Examples include teaching Frenzy several local African dialects; programming the entire field team with local customs and languages when they visit a spaceship graveyard in Indonesia; and Cyclops becoming fully fluent in Cantonese for a couple of weeks when the team undertakes a mission in Hong Kong. In earlier comics, Professor X often uses his telepathic powers to teach members new languages as necessary. For example, Colossus (being a rural Russian farmboy) originally spoke no English, so Xavier telepathically taught him the language, so thoroughly that Piotr speaks with an American accent (minus the occasional smattering of Gratuitous Russian). Similarly, when Piotr's sister Illyana came to stay with the team, Xavier taught her fluent English over the course of a single night by programming it into her brain while she slept and telepathically taught the X-Men to all speak fluent Russian, and when the team went to Japan for Wolverine's wedding to Mariko Yashida, he likewise taught them Japanese.
As of the Necrosha arc, in which Cypher is resurrected and insane, he became capable of doing this with body language as well. His first reappearance involves him reading all of the unspoken parts of a reunion between the New Mutants and Xavier, and later using it to hand them their asses in a fight. However, this only works when they're of their own minds — when Karma takes control of the entire team, he can no longer predict their moves.
Kitty Pryde speaks a wide number of languages. Kitty herself knows fluent royal and standard Shi'ar and has some moderate knowledge of Gaelic, Hebrew, and German. Her Platonic Life Partner Nightcrawler is similarly gifted. Justified in that he spent his youth traveling around Europe as the star performer in a circus and knowing the language of wherever they were that week was very handy. Aside from the Russian and Japanese everyone learned he also speaks German (his native language) English, French (which he also teaches), Spanish, and Italian.
Kitty's pet dragon Lockheed knows more languages than Beast, even though everyone treats him as a quote-unquote "starlet's chihuahua", as Abigail Brand put it. He's less a pet dragon as he is from a race of insect-like highly advanced aliens. He now teaches at the Xavier Institute.
Professor X: As previously mentioned, he can psychically learn any language by reading the mind of a fluent speaker, so presumably he knows quite a few of them.
Raven Darkhölme - a.k.a. "Mystique" - has shown fluency and/or proficiency in Czech, English, Farsi, French, German, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.
Sabretooth, Wolverine's Arch-Enemy, seems to have this, but possibly to a lesser extent. It's never been stated how many different languages he knows. He's spoken to Omega Red in Russian. Given his many travels there, he may also speak German, and has been shown to be able to fluently converse with Somalians in their native African language.
Wolverine himself speaks 12 languages fluently and a couple others pretty well, including at least one extraterrestrial language. This is the same man who does not know his own real name and is prone to memory loss. Though he's also over a century old and a world traveler for most of that time, and brainwashing might be involved.
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A Knight's Tale as Inquisitor provides a justified example through The Protagonist: because of the Mark/Anchor's influence on her current existence, Arturia finds herself knowing languages of countries that never existed in her era on Earth, she's automatically understands and speaks languages of a completely different world (i.e., Thedas).
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The protocol droid turned bounty hunter (really!), 4LOM (seen briefly alongside the other bounty hunters in The Empire Strikes Back) is a newer model, fluent in over 7,000,000 forms of communication.
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Agaton Sax: It would be impossible to provide a list of all the languages Agaton Sax speaks, since such a large list would take up all our available server space. It would also be impossible to provide a list of all the languages that he doesn't speak since that would require us to find a language like that.
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Johan from Monster speaks French, German, English, and Czech, and Latin. He learned most of those while still a fairly young child.
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Anna in the fourth episode of Alphas has the power to understand every language, but due to a severe case of apraxia, she relies on computer programs for her ability to actually "speak" them.
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Astrid: Justified in "Natives". Max, one of Astrid's autism group members, is revealed to speak 41 languages (they're his special interest), of which 34 are First Nations tongues he's trying to preserve (he's Cheyenne by birth). Conveniently, one of them is Atikamekw, a Canadian Algonquin language spoken by a Quebec-based tribe of same name involved in the Case of the Week.
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Alias: Sydney Bristow can speak every language that is plot-important, but it's never stated how many languages she can speak. The fandom wiki has reported her speaking 25 languages.
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Angel:
Angel, though not a professional scholar, is heavily multilingual, well versed in both human and demonic tongues. As a vampire born in 1727 and having lived in most of Europe and the U.S., he presumably has had plenty of time to learn.
Wesley's proficiency with languages is expanded upon even further once he makes the transition from Buffy to Angel. It's extremely rare to come across a language (human or demon) that Wes doesn't know. Even when he encounters the most ancient and obscure texts, he's still capable of recognizing enough words to determine the context and decipher the meaning.
Gunn as well, though justified due to his brain upgrade.
Jasmine is all but shown to be fluent in every language spoken, with her speaking English, Spanish, and Mandarin on screen, and casually stating that her being a fallen Power That Was allowed her to master spoken tongue.
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Temperance Brennan on Bones said in one episode that spoke eight languages and was fluent in six. Possibly partly justified since she’s an anthropologist, but it’s still a lot.
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Chuck's Intersect contains several languages which he can speak (after flashing on them).
Like all his Intersect 2.0 skills, it lasts only a few minutes.
Played more straight with Sarah, whose repertoire at a minimum contains fluent German, Russian, and Polish. Possibly French too.
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The Shadow speaks and reads whatever language is necessary for that adventure, fluently, including Chinese, Italian, Turkish, and Russian.
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Hoshi from Star Trek: Enterprise can speak 40 plus languages. This is justified in one episode where a telepathic alien notes that she has an unusual mind that is hardwired to understand languages. Hoshi eventually programs the early Universal Translator that the later series takes for granted.
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Dr. House speaks English, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Hebrew, and Hindi. He probably also knows quite a bit of Dutch — his family is originally from the Netherlands and he calls his grandmother "Oma". Though he can't speak much Mandarin, he can only count to ten, say hello and say "your daughter is pregnant." The Japanese is justified — his father was in the military and he spent part of his childhood in Okinawa. He can also ask if one's sister is of legal age in Korean. He could also correctly guess that Chase's father is of Czech origin just from his accent. Joked about by other characters: "Do you actually speak six languages, or were you betting on never being interviewed by someone who does?"
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Earth-27: There are quite a lot of characters who speak multiple languages.
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Michelle from Skins is shown to speak fairly fluent French and Spanish. She's also the only one to laugh at a disparaging comment made about Sid in Italian.
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Changeling: The Dreaming: The Willow Whisper cantrip lets you literally talk to everything and anything in its own language, with the exception of cold iron. The Zeitgeist cantrip gives you temporary knowledge of the local human language.
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Diamond Dogs members in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain can become fluent in up to five different languages (in addition to their native language) by learning them from other soldiers on Mother Base.
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Doogie Howser, M.D. once picked up the basics of the Hmong language in a single half-hour episode, while treating a Hmong patient and conversing with the patient's relatives.
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The language skills of Indiana Jones mentioned above were also illustrated in the television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.
Indy is about eight and meets one of the locals, also about the same age. They start by giving each other a counting lesson and by the end of the day Indiana is up to conversational fluency in the language, to the mild amusement of his parents (there is no mention of his new friend's proficiency in English).
Used for humour when seventeen-year-old Indy engages in a duel of languages with the daughter of a British diplomat. They go through French, German, Italian, Hungarian, Swedish, Greek and Arabic. She finally tries another language, and this time it's unsubtitled. Indy doesn't even recognize what language it is, and she asks: "You mean your name is Jones, yet you don't speak Welsh?"
Later in the series, Indy encounters another omniglot who claims to speak more languages than him. The man challenges him, but Indy manages to impress him with his knowledge of sign language. The man calls a draw – in Icelandic.
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Neal on White Collar speaks French, Japanese, and he may also speak German — he can at least read it (Diana needed a German-English dictionary to translate the manifest; Neal just read the titles right off the page). In fact, one episode confirms that Neal speaks eight languages, including some conversational Swahili.
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The Simpsons: Although it doesn't come up very often, Homer and Bart consistently display the ability to pick up fluency in just about any language they encounter, sometimes in only a few hours.
While waiting in line for a lottery ticket Homer picks up a book on learning Spanish and is able to have a fluent conversation with Bumblebee man before he reaches the end.
While listening to Manjula and Apu arguing in Hindi, Marge tells her husband to stop eavesdropping since he can't even understand them, only for Homer to tell her he's picking it up and manages to pick out the exact word Manjula used to call her husband a 'jerk'.
Bart and Homer both become at least proficient in Japanese after only a few hours in a Tokyo jail.
Played with on a flight to Brazil. Bart learns and understands Spanish before they land, but the realization that Brazil's language is actually Portuguese prompts Homer to order him to forget it. Bart does so by hitting himself over the head with the phone in the back of the seat in front of him. Much to Marge's disappointment.
Lampshaded in possibly its first use. Bart is lamenting the fact that he can't speak French since it means he can't denounce his evil exchange "guardians" to a friendly but uncomprehending gendarme. As he reaches the end of his complaint, he suddenly finds himself speaking perfect French.
Homer is such an omniglot he can even speak Penguin — and his comment that he can understand "food talk" in any language may mean he has a limited grasp of any animal language.
Homer can also speak Chinese as demonstrated when he said "It's my first day" to the Chinese navy.
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R.L. in Kevin & Kell is Domain's version of this, understanding and speaking the species-specific languages of all his employees... including feline, which is how he knew Frank was going to challenge him for supremacy.
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Lu from Murderess is surprised to find out she became this after crossing over to Greywall’d.
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The Pillar Men from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency can pick up skills and knowledge extremely quickly. This includes language. They only have to listen to a few sentences (and in the case of the stronger and smarter ones a few words) to become fluent.
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Miraculous Ladybug: The kwamis speak all languages, having been around for long enough that they were there when the languages were created, or at least had ample time to learn once they contacted someone who spoke a new language. This is necessary for their duties, as they might be used by someone anywhere in the world.
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The Nobilis, among their various talents, get this:
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Beni from The Mummy (1999) inexplicably speaks at least 6 different languagesnote English, Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, his native Hungarian, and possibly French despite being a former thief in the French Foreign Legion. This comes in handy when he comes face to face with the eponymous Mummy, who spares him after realizing that they can communicate via Hebrew, the language of Jewish slaves back in his time.
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George Hackenschmidt, the first wrestler to ever hold the original version of the World Heavyweight Title, was a very well-educated man who could speak seven languages
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Jasmine mentions in Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams that, as a princess, she was taught many languages.
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When the cast was running after a couple of suspects in Chinatown, the eponymous character of Castle revealed that he could speak Chinese, apparently fluently, as he talks to a pair of terrified bystanders. When asked, he claims to have learned it from a TV show he used to love.
Beckett can understand Russian, having spent several months as an exchange student in Ukraine. She never speaks it on the show, though, and instead goes with Just a Stupid Accent. Note that Stana Katic, who plays Beckett, can speak 5 languages: Serbian, Croatian, French, English, and Italian; and can do the accents in British, Irish, Eastern European, Italian, Spanish, Greek, and South African.
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Heroes has a character named Traveler who has this very power. Only it's not limited to any spoken language, but hand signs and animals as well.
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Caging Skies: Nathan Chaim Kaplan is Always Someone Better to Johannes Betzler, and while Elsa praises him, she brings up that Nathan spoke many languages.
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Amber from I Shall Wear Midnight picks up almost any language unbelievably fast.
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Tuuri from Stand Still, Stay Silent is a native of Finland who took Icelandic and Swedish as second languages, living in a world in which Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Iceland are the only known surviving nations. To add to this, Swedish is close enough to both Danish and Norwegian that she can actually communicate with people speaking those languages.
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Callen from NCIS: Los Angeles. Highlighted in a dialogue with another agent in which they repeatedly change languages. His partner Sam is no slouch either.
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Yo-kai Watch 3 introduces Lionguist, a Yo-kai that can speak any language and make a person speak and understand any language.
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In Star Trek: Discovery, Saru reveals that being the first and only Kelpien in Starfleet, he strove to distinguish himself and thus taught himself over 90 languages. He was previously shown to be extremely capable of learning new things when he took apart an advanced piece of tech and built a subspace communicator with it while having the education level of a pre-industrial society.
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In Vikings, due to his background as a Catholic monk and scribe, Athelstan has a fluent or working knowledge of several languages, including Old English, Latin, Greek, Old Norse, and probably High German because of his time in Charlemagne's court. He's also shown to have a natural gift for picking up dialects. It was this demonstrated ability that initially caught Ragnar's attention and resulted in him sparing Athelstan's life.
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The Daevabad Trilogy: The Nahid tribe of daeva have the unique ability to understand and become immediately fluent in any language they hear spoken, which reveals the orphan Nahri as a Nahid Blue Blood as soon as she demonstrates it. It's so natural to Nahri that she almost panics when she hears a supernatural language that she can't understand.
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Wonder Woman: In several continuities, innate knowledge of all languages on Earth is one of the powers granted to Wonder Woman, and in all continuities, she knows a vast number of languages and is supernaturally good at picking up new ones no matter their planet of origin such as Saturnian and Sangtian.
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In Luminosity, this tends to come with the territory of being an immortal — perfect recall and the time for anything. Notably Bella and Edward cultivated this skill, and Bella passed it on to Elspeth.
Quite possibly Aro, and hence Addy, Elspeth, Siobhan, and everyone in range during Helper.
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Considering Zoophobia's Perci is the teacher of languages at the Z.P. Academy, his ability to speak every language is technically justified.
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Tchwee from The Great God's War claims to speak "every language" when introducing himself, though he later admits that that was an exaggeration - he's just such a Cunning Linguist that whenever he encounters a language he doesn't speak, he can learn it extremely quickly.
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: In "Children of the Comet", Uhura reveals at the dinner party that she's fluent in 37 languages; 22 of them are from her native Kenya, and she also speaks non-Earth languages like Andorian and Vulcan.
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Harry Potter:
Barty Crouch, Sr. allegedly speaks over 200 languages, including Gobbledegook, Mermish and Troll (though Fred and George claim all this involves is pointing and grunting). Granted, we hear this from Percy, who hero-worships him.
Dumbledore can apparently speak Mermish, Gobbledegook and possibly Parseltongue, given the memories seen in the sixth book. The latter is usually an inborn trait that Dumbledore would not apparently have, but we know from Ron that people can at least understand certain words enough to imitate them.
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Gordon Freeman, in Freeman's Mind, has shown himself capable of speaking five languages: English, German, Haitian Creole, Hindi, and Spanish. He states having been to Haiti and India (in both cases, just before speaking a bit of the local tongue), and he also mentions his time in the city of Innsbruck in Austria (from his canon backstory). His ability to speak Spanish isn't specifically explained, but it's not really much of a stretch either, especially since Black Mesa is located in New Mexico. Also, for what it's worth, the phrases he speaks all have to do with buying or otherwise obtaining something for himself (drugs in Spanish, zombies in Haitian, gold in German, etc). So he may not be entirely fluent and may have just learned those phrases specifically.
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In Alpha Protocol, Mike Thorton is noted as having an unusual gift for languages, which is why the agency recruited him. If you pick the soldier background, the e-mail describing Mike says he picked up Arabic during his tour of duty in Iraq, just by interacting with native speakers. He apparently speaks the language at a fluent level, as well as being capable of understanding and conversing in Russian, Italian, and Mandarin Chinese with no apparent difficulty. Technical specialist Mike, meanwhile, has a PhD in linguistics and is outright stated to know English, Farsi, Arabic, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Mandarin (Chinese), and Japanese.
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one day at a time (Nyame): The entire Bat-Family, to the point that when Jason was Batman, he made it a requirement for his children to be fluent in at least three different languages outside of English before they were even allowed to go out in the field. Jason also openly considers the fact that Tim knew "only" five other languages before he died a mark of shame, and in a flashback reveals that he randomly learned Irish just to piss off his frenemy Kyle Rayner.
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Threepio's language database is so expansive that in Vector Prime he's able to translate the language of the Yuuzhan Vong, which initially no non-Vong in the entire galaxy speaks. This is handwaved by the language being similar to that of another alien species. Also, at one point, he actually manages to speak the Sith language.
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In Aberrant, each point of Linguistics grants fluency with a language group, like Scandinavian languages or multiple dialects of Chinese. A MegaIntelligence enhancement quadruples this.
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In Keepers of the Elements each generation of Keepers is granted this as a secondary ability.
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The Dresden Files: Normally, Harry only speaks one other language (Latin), and not very well. But when Lasciel moves in to his mind, she gives him the ability to understand any language she knows. And she knows all mortal languages, and many immortal ones. She, and this ability, are gone as of 'White Night.
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Oksa Pollock: Pavel Pollock can speak Russian, French, German, Chinese, Spanish, and Swedish. It was implied that his family members are also fluent in many languages because the inhabitants of Edefia have the power to learn every language they want to speak in a few hours.
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Birds of Prey: Lady Blackhawk can order beer in thirty languages.
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Christoph Waltz lends his multilingualism again to the role of Dr. King Schultz in Django Unchained. His German allows him to have a conversation with Broomhilda without the others listening in, and his French is used to highlight that Calvin Candie is nowhere near as intelligent or educated as he affects himself to be.
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Phedre of Kushiel's Legacy knows thirteen languages by the end of the third book. Some of which she studied as a child, sure, but she picked up a lot more in conversation in the course of traveling through many countries. Her foster-son Imriel is nearly as adept at learning languages.
Imriel's a much more realistic example. While Phedre's gift for languages is remarkable to the point that it's lampshaded a few times, Imriel learns to make himself understood in a variety of languages because he spent months in an environment that spoke many different languages interchangeably. After he returns to Terre D'Ange, he rarely uses any language besides D'Angeline, and as a result loses most of what he learned as a child.
Moirin sometimes says she finds it difficult to communicate in languages other than her native Alban (fantasy equivalent of Gaelic), but still apparently acquires enough fluency in the local equivalents of Mandarin, Mongolian, Hindi, and Quechua to get along in a surprisingly short time.
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Drew Saturday from The Secret Saturdays states she speaks 37 languages. Ulraj claims to speak 15 of their "surface languages," though he doesn't seem to know what countries they come from, but what do you expect from someone who lives underwater?
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From the Discworld books:
Rincewind is inexplicably talented with languages, despite not being an excessively intelligent character otherwise. This mainly serves as a plot device which allows him to travel around the Disc without resorting to the use of some sort of Translator Microbes. The justification given for this is that he, a consummate coward, wants to be able to scream for help and be understood in as many places as possible.
Carrot, as The Chosen One, learns languages unnaturally fast, but not perfectly.
Nanny Ogg has a mild form of this ability, in that she can turn any foreign language she hears into a sort of pidgin that just barely manages to get the point across.
Tiffany Aching, after A Hat Full of Sky, can understand most languages, especially ancient ones, thanks to the remnant of a wizard's memory stuck in her head.
Amber from I Shall Wear Midnight picks up almost any language unbelievably fast.
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In the Tamuli sequel series to The Elenium, once Emperor Sarabian catches the protagonists alone and drops his Obfuscating Stupidity act, he reveals that his court translator is completely unnecessary and that he's fluent not only in the various languages of the Tamul Empire but also in the Western tongues. He also makes the Blasé Boast that he picked up Elene and the highly irregular Styric language in a matter of weeks.
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This is a job requirement for shinobi in Tokyo Shinobi Squad. Due to Japan's globalization efforts, Tokyo has become a hub of international business and crime, forcing shinobi to learn multiple languages to get more clients. Jin already knows 23 languages, including Japanese, Thai, Italian, French, German, Tagalog, and Arabic, and his teammate Papillon is implied to know even more.
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Spirit of the Century makes no pretenses toward being realistic in this area. A character can speak a number of additional languages equal to their Academics skill (maximum of + 5 for player characters), however, the player does not need to choose their languages up front. Rather, these are considered language "slots" which can be filled as is convenient. This effectively makes any character with decent academics an Omniglot until they run out of language slots, as they can just fill in whatever languages they encounter. The "Linguist" stunt adds an extra 5 language slots, and the "Gift of Tongues" stunt takes this a step further. Any character with this stunt can speak any mainstream language by default and can spend their normal language slots on esoteric languages they have no business ever having learned.
The rulebook quote:
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In Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire, the sidekick Rekke is initially unable to speak in anything but an unknown language. After a month of in-game time, he is able to speak Aedryan quite fluently. Justified because he's from Yezuha, a distant empire where many cultures with their own languages exist. Being able to learn new languages quickly would be a vital skill in such a place.
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Player characters in Final Fantasy XIV possess a power known as the Echo, one of the effects of which is the ability to understand any spoken language.
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Doc Savage, according to Philip José Farmer, was willing to bet that he could identify any tongue spoken on Earth; he was fluent in fifty languages and passable in another hundred — in other words, virtually all of the "living languages" (those still native to and spoken by a significant number of people in daily life). Those few he doesn't know he picks up freakishly fast.
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In The Fated Sky (Book two of the Lady Astronaut series), it's revealed that Stetson Parker has an ear for languages and makes it a point to learn every language of the thirteen other astronauts on his voyage to Mars. Due to Elma's late addition to the crew, he does not speak Yiddish but is eager enough to learn it that he will temporarily bury the hatchet he and Elma bear in order to learn more.
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In The Big Bang Theory:
Howard Wolowitz knows sign language, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Farsi, French, Klingon, and is implied to know many more. Although it may be an attempt to look sexy, as the waiter of a Chinese restaurant describes him as 'the one who thinks he speaks Mandarin.'
Sheldon Cooper reportedly speaks English, Klingon, Swedish, Finnish, Hindi, and Mandarin (very badly). Justified as he finds learning a language a more palatable activity than, to say, speaking to people.
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According to the doctor narrating in the beginning of Twins (1988), Arnold Schwarzenegger's character (as a experimental result of creating a super baby by combining sperm from six athlete and scholarly fathers) can speak twelve languages along with excelling in all school subjects, physical and spiritual training.
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Angelico of Lucha Underground speaks English, Spanish, and Afrikaans
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The Mysterious Benedict Society:
George "Sticky" Washington is able to read numerous languages but has trouble actually speaking anything besides English. In The Perilous Journey, the Society encounters a man whom they need to ask how to get to the train station, who speaks Portuguese. Sticky hands him a note written in Portuguese, only for them to discover that he can't read and doesn't speak English. Reynie, however, speaks rudimentary Spanish and as the man does too, this is enough to get them what they need.
Like Sticky, Mr. Nicholas Benedict is able to pick up on languages from reading them in books and from context clues. In the prequel book, The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict, he meets a girl and comes to the realization that she is deaf. When he meets her the next day, he communicates with her using sign language learned from a book he read the night before. She is astonished and is sure he is somehow pranking her until she realizes that as the conversation continues he is fluently using signs that wouldn't be in any book because they're personal signs she normally uses only with her own family.
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Michael, being Relativity's resident genius, can speak a "plethora" of languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, Latin, and Arabic.
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Vainqueur The Dragon: As said in chapter 2, Monster Squires, technically, with all Monster languages, through their Monster Kin perk:
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Scandinavia and the World: King Europe prides himself on being "an intellectual who speaks more than 20 languages".
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In Terra Ignota, Mycroft speaks around seven languages despite that being frowned upon, so he's often recruited for translation work. Being a Child Prodigy verging on Teen Genius, he actually learned them all on his own.
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Avengers… Adventure!!!: Per Gwyneth's description, her character (Pepper) has such a high Linguistics score she had to invent languages to add to her character sheet.
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Bix in the Dinotopia series, though it may be a natural ability of her subspecies — Protoceratops multilinguous, the translator Protoceratops. She can speak most of the saurian languages on the island and many human as well. The one other translator we meet, Chaz, in Hand of Dinotopia and Dinotopia Lost is the same way.
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As the protagonist of Knights of the Old Republic, you know almost every language you come across, seeing them as subtitles. A Wookiee character is surprised that you can understand him — really, to facilitate Bilingual Dialogue most Star Wars characters understand if not speak several languages — and you have the option to wonder to an assassination droid with translator capacities why you can't understand the Sandpeople tongue. HK tells you that he knows you pick up languages with the help of the Force, but it doesn't substitute for actual linguistic training (he speculates that the Sand People being deliberately obscurantist with their language contributes; they don't want you to understand). Towards the end of the game, only you can understand Rakatan, which startles your companions. As the Dark Lord Revan, you ripped the language out of their heads and forced them to comprehend Basic.
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the secret lives of Princesses: Princess Barbara of Babel speaks a multitude of languages. Conversant in French, English, Farsi and Chinese. Writes in Mongolian.
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The Raccoons: Troy Malone from the episode "The Sky's the Limit!" claims to be fluent in 10 different languages, though this may be more of an Informed Ability as he's only shown speaking English.
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Green Lantern: The Lantern Corps' rings let them speak any language (with extremely rare exceptions when the ring doesn't recognize the language), which is useful, considering that they are something akin to a galactic police force.
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It's hard to think of a language referenced in 3rd Rock from the Sun that Dick Solomon didn't know, and yet he misunderstood so many words and concepts in English.
Tommy apparently matches his skill handling a quiz on obscure topics by responding in whatever language Dick asks him in.
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In DuckTales (1987), Scrooge McDuck knows enough languages to be able to speak with almost anyone, but then he spent the better part of his life traveling the world doing business, and it's easier to haggle when you know the lingo. If he doesn't speak the language, he might speak a similar one — when he ended up in the Lost World of Tralla La in Himalaya, he found the natives spoke a language similar to one he learnt while yak trading in Tibet.
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The title character of Carmen Sandiego knows many languages because she was raised in a highly multilingual environment.
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Jace from The Mortal Instruments, can speak a lot of languages, thanks to all the training his father put him to. An example is when he speaks to Sebastian in Romanian in City of Glass.
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Metal Gear:
Solid Snake's trophy in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, as well as various bios from the series itself, states that he is fluent in six languages. One of these languages is implied to be French in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, and if the novelizations for Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Guns of the Patriots are anything to go by, he also seems to have a fluency in Russian due to taking courses in Russian as part of his FOXHOUND Training, and the Slavic Languages either during his membership in FOXHOUND or possibly even during his stint in the Green Berets.
Big Boss, his father, is not any different, being explicitly shown to know Russian and English (the former due to his tutelage under The Boss), and is implied to be fluent in French as well, and at the very least has some knowledge of Spanish in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. In one briefing tape, it's also implied that he subconsciously learned how to speak cat.
Kazuhira Miller, aside from Japanese and English (the former being his native language), was also stated to be fluent in Spanish.
Ocelot speaks Russian, English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese and Italian.
Liquid Snake's various bios also state that, besides English, he also knows Spanish, French, Malaguay, and has a mastery of Arabic. In addition, it is implied that he is fluent in seven languages, meaning there are two languages besides those listed that he also knows. In MGSV, one of these is revealed to be Kikongo.
Gray Fox is implied to know English and German.
According to some bios and the novelization for Metal Gear Solid, Decoy Octopus is fluent in twelve languages, at least some of the languages being English, Spanish, French, German, and Ebonics (the first two are presumably his native languages, seeing how according to those sources, he was born in Mexico).
Monsoon in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is fluent in his native Khmer, as well as Chinese, and English.
Diamond Dogs members in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain can become fluent in up to five different languages (in addition to their native language) by learning them from other soldiers on Mother Base.
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In the Xanth cycle we have the friends pair Dor the Magician, who can speak to inanimate objects (endowing them with intelligence, cunning, and bad humor) and Grundy the Golem, a rag doll that speaks any living language. Good Magician Humphrey supposedly knows every language dead or spoken, but rarely bothers to show.
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Wolverine himself speaks 12 languages fluently and a couple others pretty well, including at least one extraterrestrial language. This is the same man who does not know his own real name and is prone to memory loss. Though he's also over a century old and a world traveler for most of that time, and brainwashing might be involved.
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Grobnar Gnomehands of Neverwinter Nights 2 speaks several languages including Gnomish, Goblin, Orcish, Elvish, and Draconic.
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One of the abilities that a Campione! has is that they pick up and speak any language whatsoever. Kind of boring by the standards of this series, but very useful for the protagonist Godou.
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Hans Landa of Inglourious Basterds is a multilingual Nazi capable of speaking in German, French, English, and Italian, and each of these skills becomes a plot point. Christoph Waltz actually does speak German, French, and English, but his Italian is Faux Fluency. Tarantino nearly dropped the project after having difficulty casting the role.
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Similarly, Exalted has Linguistics Charms that produce various effects of this type, ranging from "You pick up the language temporarily after listening to it for a few minutes" to "Your body language cuts through the linguistic barrier." Also, as with Aberrant above (it's the same basic system), every point in Linguistics gives you a language family. For some context on that, the Indo-European language family includes everything from English to Russian to Gaelic to Hindi, and there's no reason to think Creation's language families are any less diverse.
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Ka-Zar: Kevin Plunder, the second Ka-Zar, can speak every language used in the Savage Land fluently, a number that is at least in the dozens.
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The New 52 version of the Silver Banshee can instantly learn any language she hears, which allows her to talk to Supergirl, who can only speak Kryptonian.
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In The End of All Things, Zach can speak, read, and understand any and all languages he comes across. Justified as it being a gift from Nayru, the Goddess of Wisdom.
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Impulse: Impulse's mother learned English in 8 seconds thanks to super speed.
Max Mercury duplicated the trick... mostly... when he was introduced to Impulse's mother. Bart gave him a "speed course" in Interlaq with a few 'errors'.
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Marvel Universe:
Captain America can speak English, German, Russian, Spanish, Japanese, French, and Italian. There might be even more that he is lingual in.
Daredevil: Mark Waid's run features Austin Cao, a client of Matt Murdock's. Austin worked in Language Services at Midas Investments; he speaks 17 languages fluently and another 10 passably.
Iron Man: Tony Stark, in addition to English, speaks fluent French, German, Russian, Chinese... That's not counting his armor's translation software.
Ka-Zar: Kevin Plunder, the second Ka-Zar, can speak every language used in the Savage Land fluently, a number that is at least in the dozens.
The Mighty Thor: All Asgardians, and probably all deities in the Marvel Universe, can speak every language thanks to a handy little ability called the Allspeak, in which what they say is understood by every species in their own native language. This rather makes sense for a race of gods. After all, it's pretty difficult to tell your followers what to do if they can't understand a word you say.
New Mutants: This X-Men spinoff features the character Doug Ramsey/'Cypher', whose power is to do this with any language, even if it should have been completely incomprehensible to the human mind. This extends even to raw computer binaries, dead written languages for which no "Rosetta stone" exists, and an alien Starfish Language.
Ultimate Fantastic Four: Namor becomes fluent in English by listening to the Fantastic Four speak to S.H.I.E.L.D. agents for roughly five minutes.
X-Force: Shatterstar possesses enhanced learning capabilities and mastered Spanish by watching television. He's since been shown to be fluent in at least one other language (German) and probably speaks several others.
X-Men: One of the benefits of having so many telepaths running around the various teams of X-Men is that they've mastered how to hit field operatives with short-duration language programming, mostly by reading the minds of people in the area they're visiting. Examples include teaching Frenzy several local African dialects; programming the entire field team with local customs and languages when they visit a spaceship graveyard in Indonesia; and Cyclops becoming fully fluent in Cantonese for a couple of weeks when the team undertakes a mission in Hong Kong. In earlier comics, Professor X often uses his telepathic powers to teach members new languages as necessary. For example, Colossus (being a rural Russian farmboy) originally spoke no English, so Xavier telepathically taught him the language, so thoroughly that Piotr speaks with an American accent (minus the occasional smattering of Gratuitous Russian). Similarly, when Piotr's sister Illyana came to stay with the team, Xavier taught her fluent English over the course of a single night by programming it into her brain while she slept and telepathically taught the X-Men to all speak fluent Russian, and when the team went to Japan for Wolverine's wedding to Mariko Yashida, he likewise taught them Japanese.
As of the Necrosha arc, in which Cypher is resurrected and insane, he became capable of doing this with body language as well. His first reappearance involves him reading all of the unspoken parts of a reunion between the New Mutants and Xavier, and later using it to hand them their asses in a fight. However, this only works when they're of their own minds — when Karma takes control of the entire team, he can no longer predict their moves.
Kitty Pryde speaks a wide number of languages. Kitty herself knows fluent royal and standard Shi'ar and has some moderate knowledge of Gaelic, Hebrew, and German. Her Platonic Life Partner Nightcrawler is similarly gifted. Justified in that he spent his youth traveling around Europe as the star performer in a circus and knowing the language of wherever they were that week was very handy. Aside from the Russian and Japanese everyone learned he also speaks German (his native language) English, French (which he also teaches), Spanish, and Italian.
Kitty's pet dragon Lockheed knows more languages than Beast, even though everyone treats him as a quote-unquote "starlet's chihuahua", as Abigail Brand put it. He's less a pet dragon as he is from a race of insect-like highly advanced aliens. He now teaches at the Xavier Institute.
Professor X: As previously mentioned, he can psychically learn any language by reading the mind of a fluent speaker, so presumably he knows quite a few of them.
Raven Darkhölme - a.k.a. "Mystique" - has shown fluency and/or proficiency in Czech, English, Farsi, French, German, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.
Sabretooth, Wolverine's Arch-Enemy, seems to have this, but possibly to a lesser extent. It's never been stated how many different languages he knows. He's spoken to Omega Red in Russian. Given his many travels there, he may also speak German, and has been shown to be able to fluently converse with Somalians in their native African language.
Wolverine himself speaks 12 languages fluently and a couple others pretty well, including at least one extraterrestrial language. This is the same man who does not know his own real name and is prone to memory loss. Though he's also over a century old and a world traveler for most of that time, and brainwashing might be involved.
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Law & Order: Criminal Intent's Detective Carolyn Barek can speak Spanish, Yiddish, Italian, Polish, some Creole, some Russian, and some Cantonese from working in Chinatown. Detective Serena Stevens is said to be a "linguistic savant" as well. Largely an Informed Ability; in her entire (admittedly short) run on the show, she uses the skill exactly once, in her first episode.
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The Epic Level Handbook provides the feat "Polyglot", which requires Super-Intelligence but grants a character fluency in absolutely every language, down to the most obscure regional accent.
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Peter/Akira of Touch is this, stating his own power in-story as that of "Intuitive Linguistics."
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In Time Enough for Love Lazarus Long claims that he can usually tack on a new language in a week, but refuses to do business with the Howards in any language but mid-20th century American English, which the Chairman learns in two days. Suggesting that it's a common trait for people who've lived multiple centuries.
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Bubbles of The Powerpuff Girls (1998) can apparently speak pretty much any language. This isn't limited to human languages, either.
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In Pathfinder, the Spiritual Successor to Dungeons and Dragons 3.5:
Learning languages is incentivized by merging its skill with the skills for forging documents and deciphering coded, incomplete, or archaic texts. Becoming incrementally better at either of the latter automatically comes with a side of fluency in a new language.
A canonical example of an omniglot is Ezren Zefiir, the Iconic Wizard. In his pre-generated statblocks, he's fluent in six languages at level 1,note Common, Draconic, Goblin, Infernal, Osiriani, and Terran thirteen at level 7note All of the former, plus Abyssal, Celestial, Elven, Giant, Ignan, Infernal, Kelish, and Undercommon and twenty languages, one of them a long-dead Classical Tongue, at level 12.note Adding Aklo, Aquan, Auran, Azlanti, Dwarven, Gnoll, and Orc
Many celestial beings have the power of "Truespeech", which any non-mindless being hears as their own native language or form of communication, and which lets the celestial understand all forms of communication.
Aasimar (people with celestial beings in their ancestry) have the alternate racial trait of Truespeaker, representing them being able to tap into a measure of celestial Truespeech. It allows them to learn two languages whenever they take a rank in Linguistics (the language skill).
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Teresa Teng recorded songs in her native Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, and English.
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Robin Goodfellow from the Cal Leandros series speaks — according to his own claim — all the languages in existence, and probably those that are extinct, too. That is justified because he's not human and is old enough to remember the dinosaurs. Basically, he was around before language was invented and picked them up as they came around.
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Mutants & Masterminds has the Language skill — for every rank, you speak an extra language. One Power Point at character creation gives you four skill points, so for one point, you can know five languages (the native one's free). Fans and some later books have tried to devise ways to make it a little closer to reality. A standard "fix" is to make each language cost two points instead: one to speak, and another to be literate. Although that ratio seems less impressive in a system where one point can also let you breathe in space or casually stroll at 10 MPH and two points let you speak and understand all languages for every species everywhere.
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Doctor Dolittle, unlike what some may believe, has no special ability to speak animal language. His parrot taught him a large number of different languages, and the Doctor still spends time learning more if needed.
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White Rooms: The Ritses are taught how to speak several languages, including Russian and French.
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Grrl Power: Dabbler claims to know lots of languages — lots. Mind you, most of them are probably not from Earth. A footnote eventually explains that, in addition to cheating with cybernetics, she has an almost-perfect memory, and even with that, she's lost a lot of her competence in some of the languages she hasn't spoken in a while.
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe: This is almost a running gag in Carl Barks' Uncle Scrooge comics. No matter where in the world the ducks travel, Scrooge always knows the language there and will explain offhand that he learned it back when he "sold lawnmowers in the Sahara" or some equally implausible feat.
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Iron Man: Tony Stark, in addition to English, speaks fluent French, German, Russian, Chinese... That's not counting his armor's translation software.
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Dungeons & Dragons:
In 2nd Edition, the Lillendi are able to speak any language perfectly, including non-languages like Dabus Rebus Bubbles and Scramblespeak. But then, they're spirits of creativity, and this is explicitly a super-power granted by their deity. We also never find out whether it would work on codes and ciphers, or what would happen if a Lillend was faced with a page of randomly generated nonsense.
2nd Edition also ties the number of languages a PC can know to their Intelligence stat; with average Intelligence, a character can have fluency in 2 languages. A perfect 18 Intelligence grants you an impressive 7 languages.
1st Edition employs the same mechanic as above, with the same numbers. In addition, most nonhuman races start with fluency in a fair number of different languages. Finally, bards gain more languages as they level up: a maximum-level Magna Alumnae has fluency in no less than fifteen languages from class progression alone.
In 3.5 Edition, multilingualism is extremely easy. Characters start out fluent in a number of extra languages proportional to their intelligence, and just one skill point enables them to read, write, and speak an entire new language. On top of that, the "Master Linguist" feat lets them learn one new language whenever they gain a level.
The spell "Tongues" makes its target fluent in all languages for a few minutes and can be made permanent with more powerful magic.
High-level Monks gain the "Tongue of the Sun and Moon", allowing them to speak to any living creature whatsoever. Amusingly, this means that a French-speaking vampire presents more of a language barrier than a salmon.
The Epic Level Handbook provides the feat "Polyglot", which requires Super-Intelligence but grants a character fluency in absolutely every language, down to the most obscure regional accent.
In 4th edition, learning languages is restricted to a feat, Linguist, that requires above-average intelligence, but that feat instantly grants fluency in three new languages of the player's choice. Since a character can exchange one previously acquired feat upon gaining a level, they can spontaneously learn Draconic, Primordial, and Abyssal by forgetting Elven, Dwarven, and Goblin. It helps that core 4e only has 10 languages and every character starts out knowing at least 2.
5th edition also provides the Linguist feat, though without the high intelligence requisite - anyone can just learn 3 extra languages! Though as 5e contains 16 core languages, this is probably a necessity.
Spells such as Comprehend Languages and Speak With Animals temporarily extend a character's linguistic abilities, while Monk ability Tongue of the Sun and Moon shows that the character is so in touch with people's energies that they can understand all speech, and be understood in turn.
The Warlock eldritch Invocation Eyes of the Runekeeper gives the Warlock a variant. They can read any language (including extinct ones), but cannot recreate them, so if they want to write or speak the languages themselves, they have to do it the old way.
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In The Hampdenshire Wonder, the Child Prodigy Victor can pick up new languages almost instantly and has read the Bible in the original languages by age five.
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X-Men Film Series:
Thanks to his mutation, Professor Charles Xavier is capable of mental communication in every language in the world (as X-Men: Apocalypse affirms).
In X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Omniglot duties fall to Wade Wilson.
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GURPS Supers has an advantage called Omnilingual. You don't actually know every language but every time you encounter a new one (no matter how absurdly obscure) you get to make a skill roll to see if you just happened to study it.
The GURPS basic set has Language Talent advantage. In Third Edition, when paired with high intelligence, this made it possible for a character to learn 20 languages or more for just a handful of points. Fourth Edition changed the way languages worked in the game, making Language Talent a much milder advantage.
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Yakuza 4: Tanimura is noted for his language skills and proves to be conversational in Mandarin, Thai, Korean, and Tagalog, on top of his native Japanese.
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Castlevania (2017): The second season reveals that Sypha can read and speak a large variety of languages, including the original human language spoken by Adam and Eve. She states her education would be lacking if she found text to remember but couldn't read it.
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Rock from Black Lagoon knows a lot of languages, to the point where you wonder when a simple salaryman like him found the time to study them. Besides his native Japanese and English being the lingua franca of Roanapur, he also translated the Lovelace family creed while Roberta was reciting it in Spanish, he correctly identified the terms of affection that Hansel and Gretel used as Romanian, and he was able to translate Feng Yifei's Mandarin for Revy's benefit. Though it's mentioned at one point he worked in procurement and likely came in contact with several languages.
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Sam Beckett from Quantum Leap speaks seven modern languages and four dead ones (Including Egyptian hieroglyphs). Interestingly enough, the languages he didn't speak (such as Italian or Hebrew) tended to be plot points more than the ones he did.
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Sikozu of Farscape can apparently learn to understand a new language over the course of a single conversation. Of course, it helps that everyone around her has Translator Microbes, so she doesn't have to actually learn to speak any of the languages and can direct people (in her own language) about what to say to help her understand them... This skill is necessary for her, as she has an allergic reaction to the microbes and can't take the easy way out, being a bioloid. Other members of her species can understand unfamiliar languages as easily as everyone else.
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The Diadem Saga: One of protagonist Aleytys's Psychic Powers is the ability to telepathically pick up new languages in minutes by talking to a native speaker.
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Fujiwara of Kaguya-sama: Love Is War is the daughter of a diplomat, so she's fluent in five languages (the exact languages are never specified outside of Japanese and French, though one of them is probably German due to her love of board games). Ironically, she sucks when it comes to her native Japanese (the official fanbook even lists it as her worst subject) since she spent so much time speaking other languages as a child that her fluency atrophied.
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As a funny side note: in the original rules of Vampire: The Masquerade, it was necessary to be a reasonably low-generation vampire (which is to say, a vampire who's only a few generations removed from Caine, the first vampire; the lower the generation, the stronger their blood) in order to get an attribute or ability score above five points. The old "Murphy's Law" comic strip/column, which highlighted fun errors and oversights in various games' rules systems, pointed out that this meant that in the World of Darkness, anyone who speaks more than six languages — such as, say, most of the people who work at the translation department at the United Nations — is, by the game's rules, at least a seventh-generation vampire. This may not have been specifically why White Wolf changed how Linguistics worked, but it could not have helped.
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Stargate SG-1: Towards the start of the show in the episode "1969", Daniel states he can speak 23 languages. Throughout the show, he picks up new languages across the universe, including non-human languages such as Ancient and Unas. This stems from the film, where Daniel learns the language of Abydos after realising that their language is based on Ancient Egyptian. He was already fluent in the consonants, which is all that Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics records; he just needed to learn how to pronounce the vowels.
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In Crosstime Traffic, by the 2090s, brain implants allow people to instantly learn other languages without spending years studying them. This is especially useful for worlds where the language doesn't exist in the home timeline, like Gunpowder Empire, which speaks Neo-Latin (though Classical Latin is also used).
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Justified with Duncan in the Stardoc series. He has a telepathic ability that allows him to learn languages instantaneously by making physical contact with a native speaker.
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Wonder Woman (2017): Diana says that she and the other Amazons know pretty much every language in existence, and she demonstrates this with several, including Sumerian. Sameer also knows many languages but admits Diana has him beat when he doesn't understand Ancient Greeknote which would suggest that Sameer's linguistic acuity comes from practical experience rather than academic study since Ancient Greek is taught almost as often as Latin. One of the only languages she doesn't recognize is Blackfoot, which makes sense because that came from the Americas, which the Amazons wouldn't have contacted.
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Downplayed with the protagonist of Cultist Simulator. Their classical education in London starts them out speaking English, and some Greek and Latin. As the game progresses, they become capable enough in Greek, Latin, Aramaic, and Sanskrit to readily translate works of eldritch lore written in those tongues into English. And eventually, another four fictional languages, each related to one of the previous but spoken primarily by Eldritch Abominations and their worshippers for the truly ancient and mind-shattering stuff. However, the protagonist is not speaking these languages, but painstakingly translating books with reference works explicitly at hand at all times.
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Subverted in The Star Wars Holiday Special, with Luke Skywalker having trouble understanding Chewbacca's family unless they speak slowly. Understandable, since by that time he hasn't known Chewie for a long time.
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Croaker, physician, historian, annalist, and later, Captain of The Black Company has a gift for languages (including sign language, which he refers to as "finger speak."). This is hardly surprising, considering his life as both a traveling mercenary (requiring him to learn the local tongue, wherever "local" happens to be) and as Company annalist (requiring him to read from the Company's history, meaning he needs to know how to read the older volumes that were written in different/archaic languages). Murgen credits him as speaking twenty languages, but later confesses to have been in awe of Croaker at the time. Some tongues that Croaker speaks are always referred to as dialects, so he may speak a few languages with local variations.
In the early books this was a universal trait in the Company, since they moved all over the northern continent (Croaker knew a few more as Archivist and the older members knew more because they started further away). When they were traveling south in Shadow Games they all picked up local languages in a few weeks from their guides.
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On The A-Team Murdock can apparently speak several languages including Spanish, German, Vietnamese, Japanese, Russian, and Mandarin Chinese. He can also speak Italian, but it quickly strays into My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels territory.
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And similarly accomplished is Professor Lidenbrock from Journey to the Center of the Earth.
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Mars, the Incarnation of War, in Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series. There aren't any language barriers when it comes to War.
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Gulliver in Gulliver's Travels knows many languages and learns new ones remarkably fast. He might be a parody of this trope, as Gulliver's Travels is partly a parody of improbable travel narratives.
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Taken to its logical extreme in the Young Wizards series. Being proficient in The Speech allows a wizard to hold conversations with literally anything. Humans, aliens, trees, animals, rocks...
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The Loud House: Revamped: J.D. knows everything from English to Vietnamese.
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The Protheans from Mass Effect are shown to be capable of learning another language by using touch-telepathy to empathically view memories. Their technology is capable of similar feats, with Vigil learning English via radio-chatter.
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Flynn Carson from The Librarian has the ability to speak/read several languages fluently, including Portuguese and multiple dialects of Egyptian Heiroglyphs. Then in the first movie, he learns the extinct Language of the Birds in just a few hours, to the point where he tells the big bad, "You're up the creek and I have the only paddle" in the Language before translating it into English. Justified in that Flynn had spent his whole life learning a wide variety of subjects. (He'd earned 22 degrees before becoming The Librarian)
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The Scholomance: Those on the incantations track are required to learn many languages in order to build a strong spell list for graduation. Main protagonist El, who is on the incantations track, already knew four languages before she even entered the school at age fourteennote English (mother tongue) Welsh (other mother tongue) Marathi (Mum set her to lessons on her tragically lost father's native language early on) & Hindi (South Asian looking kid got sick of people around the commune bugging her for help with a language she did not know). She learned another two to a respectable level by the end of her sophomore year, and by the start of the series is actively learning five more, several of which are dead languages.
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Batman: Not surprisingly, Bruce Wayne has mastered quite a few languages. In addition to his native English, he also speaks Spanish, French, Japanese, German, Russian, at least two dialects of Chinese, Latin, Kryptonese (and you thought Latin was a dead language), Urdu, Arabic, Vietnamese and presumably many more.
He could not speak Arabic in the continuity of Batman: The Animated Series, however (as seen in the episode "If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?"), and needed to use his portable computer to translate it.
David Cain (the father of former Batgirl Cassandra Cain) can say "That's nice. Now get me a Scotch or I'll rip your lungs out" in every Earth-native language in existence.
Dick Grayson also speaks many languages including English, some Romani (though mostly from circus slang), French, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, the alien language of Tamaran, and American Sign Language. He is occasionally shown to have trouble reading Japanese though.
Tim Drake has demonstrated or claimed at least some proficiency in Spanish, Cantonese, Russian, German and French in addition to his native English by the time he picks up the Red Robin mantle.
While spending time in prison, Bane learned six different languages.
Aside from English, Kate Kane is fluent in Pashto and speaks at least some Yiddish and Portuguese; it's implied she also speaks French. Her twin sister Beth speaks English, French, and German.
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Phineas and Ferb: Ferb speaks English, French, Japanese, Martian, and Dolphin.
Buford shows signs of this as well, he knows Latin and French and doesn't think much of it.
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Annie Carver of Gunnerkrigg Court can speak a wide variety of languages due to hanging out with various cultures' Psychopomps on a regular basis. This usually comes up with her ability to speak Polish, allowing her to easily talk to Gamma, who otherwise only talks to Zimmy due to not knowing English. Downplayed in that she's not especially fluent and makes realistic grammatical errors when speaking to Gamma.
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Madusa speaks Japanese and even recorded a music CD in the language.
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The Star Trek novel A Singular Destiny introduces Sonek Pran. As he's a respected scholar and political analyst, we might expect him to know a few prominent languages, certainly more than the usual. But when it’s revealed he can speak perfect Lissepian (the Lissepians being a reasonably well-known trading culture but nothing special), he definitely crosses into Omniglot territory.
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Besides being acclaimed in his home country as a national hero, Filipino nationalist and intellectual Jose Rizal (of Noli Me Tangere fame no less) was known for being able to speak twenty-two languages, including Spanish, French, Latin, Greek, German, Portuguese, Italian, English, Dutch, and Japanese. He also knew some Malay and could also speak Chavacano, Cebuano, Ilocano, and Subanon.
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Kaeloo: According to Episode 69, Kaeloo can speak English, French, Spanish, and German, understand duck language, and possibly knows even more languages.
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In Doubt Academy, Emilia speaks multiple languages, even a few dead ones.
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The latest depiction of Thrawn, in Outbound Flight, has him learning Basic very, very quickly by taking lessons from a human who shares a trade language with him. The human is slightly alarmed by his progress. He tries to teach the human the Chiss language at the same time, but this works less well due to its complexity. "You are a fishing boat?"
The fishing boat example isn't due to the complexity of the language, but the fact that most speakers of Basic don't know how to make that soft (unaspirated) "p" sound. Presumably Basic, like English, usually has a puff of air accompany the "p" sound. This isn't part of the language but simply how it's spoken. The Chiss language, however, uses both as different phonemes.note  As do some Earth languages, in fact. Car'das was so used to Basic that, try as he might, he couldn't make that soft "p" when the language called for it.
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Marguerite from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World has a talent for languages and can communicate with many different people. A conversation with Malone reveals that it's an innate talent she does not understand.
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Final Fantasy VI has Mog, a moogle who can speak the same language as humans effortlessly (when all other moogles can just say "Kupo!"). This is justified by the moogle himself, who explains that the Esper Ramuh taught him to speak their language in his dreams, and told him to seek the party out and help the cause. He still usays "Kupo!" at the end of some sentences.
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Iron Man: Yensin speaks upwards of ten languages, but can't speak Hungarian.
Which actually makes a lot of sense. Hungarian is the largest of the Uralic language family, and not closely related to the Indo-European family that most other languages spoken in Europe are in.
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According to the Girl Genius novelizations, Agatha speaks Latin, Greek, German, English, French, Arabic, and Russian. This is in addition to her native tongue, which is Romanian.
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Ashes of the Past:
An Aura trick allows the user to be able to understand Pokémon. For novices, they can usually only understand their own Pokémon (thanks to their bond), but further mastery can allow one to understand all Pokémon. Pokémon can also use Aura to communicate with humans, hence why Lucario are often used as translators. Ash and his many companions use this ability to communicate with their Pokémon, making training and their other misadventures much easier to handle.
Molly Hale, as the result of her encounter with Unown, is also capable of communicating with all Pokémon, though she doesn't need Aura for it (in fact, it isn't clear how she's able to do it). Seeing as the incident that granted her this beneficial ability was potentially life-scarring, her parents are rather relieved that this was the only real side-effect.
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Noriko Null from Beyond the Impossible, as a result of having all the information in the world downloaded into her brain. Greek gods have this as a natural ability, to the point that not only they can understand and talk any language, but people who stick around them for long will understand as well. The only exception is Demon speech, which they can't understand at all.
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Journey to Chaos: Zaticana can speak every language that exists as one of her divine authorities. She can bestow this ability on others as a blessing, but it only works for spoken languages. Throwing in the written version would be "too easy".
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Indiana Jones is said (in Expanded Universe material) to have picked up twenty-seven languages, mainly just by traveling around and talking to people. A book set when Indy is 8 uses this trope as Character Development — when he was in Egypt, Indy met a tall, scary man who sounded practically demonic to him. T.E. Lawrence showed up, told Indy all the man was doing was asking what he was studying, and acted as translator. He then explained to Indy that the first thing you should do when entering a new country is learn the language, which breaks down any barriers you may have.
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On Strong Medicine, Andy is fluent in five languages, including Tagalog, due to having been an Army brat.
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L from Death Note can speak enough languages to communicate with police all over the globe. He knows basically everything. He's the three greatest detectives in the world.
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Throughout the Hitman series, Agent 47 has impersonated people from France, Thailand, Italy, Colombia, Morocco, India, and many more places. We hear the games' dialogue in English, but Agent 47 presumably blends in by speaking the local language wherever he goes.
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Woman of the Year: Tess Harding speaks several languages fluently during the film.
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Andrew Divoff, a Russian-Venezuelan actor you probably know best for playing Mikhail Bakunin on Lost speaks English, Spanish, Italian, French, German, Catalan, Portuguese, and Russian. And he knew how to speak Romanian, but forgot when he had nobody to speak to with it.
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Ziva David from NCIS speaks ten languages. However, she suffers from severe Blunt Metaphors Trauma when speaking English, and presumably any language other than her native Hebrew. The identified languages are: English, Hebrew, Spanish, Arabic, Turkish, French, Pashto (which she refers to as "language number 7"), German, Italian, Russian, and language of love. Neither the actress (Cote de Pablo, born in Chile) nor the writers speak Hebrew, so this trope is probably the reason Ziva almost never speaks a line of her native language.
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Monk's brother Ambrose is shown in his first appearance to be able to at least read and write dozens of languages and speak at least English and Mandarin. Justified in that he's got extreme agoraphobia and is pretty much unable to leave the house, so he learned the languages in order to pass the time. He uses this skill to write instruction manuals.
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Ultimate Fantastic Four: Namor becomes fluent in English by listening to the Fantastic Four speak to S.H.I.E.L.D. agents for roughly five minutes.
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Aside from English, Kate Kane is fluent in Pashto and speaks at least some Yiddish and Portuguese; it's implied she also speaks French. Her twin sister Beth speaks English, French, and German.
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Superman:
The Silver Age Superman, by virtue of super-intelligence, being one of his (rarely used) powers. He went and taught himself every language on Earth just because he wanted to be able to talk to anyone he was saving in their native tongue. Speaks a few alien languages, too. It occasionally pops up in modern comics as well. Supergirl as well, upon first arriving on Earth was noticed of learning not only English but several other languages as well... within the span of a month. This continued on to later Superman incarnations, notably Superman speaking fluent Russian in Superman IV: The Quest for Peace and to Kong Kenan in Mandarin in New Super-Man.
Lex Luthor is fluent in an untold number of languages, thanks to being a genius-level person.
The New 52 version of the Silver Banshee can instantly learn any language she hears, which allows her to talk to Supergirl, who can only speak Kryptonian.
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Law & Order's Ed Green can speak English, Spanish, French, and "enough Russian to get a date". It's unclear if he's fluent in French, however, and this is partially explained by the fact that he moved around a lot as a young child, sometimes living in French-speaking African countries.
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The trope itself gets parodied in some of the flavor text describing the Linguistic skill in Adventure!, when it turns out the team Omniglot... isn't. Sure, he speaks six dialects of Sumerian, but that doesn't mean he speaks Spanish.
The Jack of All Tongues Knack plays it straight: you double the number of languages you know, and it costs half as much to learn new languages.
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Different episodes of The Real Ghostbusters show that Dr. Egon Spengler can speak Russian, Japanese, Sumerian, American Sign Language, and Troll.
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In the Somewhither universe, the language "Ursprache" is the "father of all languages". Anyone who learns the Ursprache gains the ability to understand all languages, including grasping the subtlest semantic nuances much like a native speaker would. Conversely, anyone can likewise understand Ursprache, even feral children who have no concept of language.
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He could not speak Arabic in the continuity of Batman: The Animated Series, however (as seen in the episode "If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?"), and needed to use his portable computer to translate it.
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Noelle: Santa inherently knows every language in the world. While Nick struggles with this Noelle speaks with a deaf girl in ASL despite having never learned it in the past, understands a little boy speaking Punjabi, then also understands and speaks French.
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Kill Six Billion Demons: Blue Devils have a natural talent for languages and can speak just about anything they hear fluently with a little training; the essence of Blue Devils (Blue Devil Liquor) serves as the Translator Microbes of the setting. Cio at one point mentions that she tried learning English to speak with Allison in her native language, but found the language too onerous.
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Dollhouse: Due to the multitude of personalities that are downloaded into Echo's consciousness, it's not surprising when she speaks mostly in Spanish in one episode to gain the trust of an abused female immigrant, which she does freely even in the presence of the police guards since they can't understand what they're saying. One of her personalities is a Russian girl, so she knows that language as well (although the actress is pretty bad at it).
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The Rankin-Bass version of The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus has Tingler, who can not only speak any human language but animal languages as well. Justified in that he's a Sound Imp, who carry sounds from place to place and thus should be familiar with most any sound creatures are capable of making. He teaches a young Santa Claus how to speak different languages.
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An episode of All Grown Up! shows Susie Carmichael knowing various words in various languages as part of a language contest. She claims that she has a "freaky knack" for this. Problem is, such an ability is attested only once outside of the episode in question. note In Rugrats in Paris, Angelica boasts that she's going to Paris and brags about learning the language. Susie responds in perfect French, "I feel sorry for the French people who will hear you." The even bigger problem is that this ability solely exists to eventually force Susie into picking helping her friends win the language contest over auditioning for a singing contest.
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Treadstone. Cicadas can speak multiple languages, which is suggested to be a result of their conditioning implanting the knowledge subconsciously along with all the other skills required of a Professional Killer. Vincent is stated to be fluent in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Mandarin and Farsi. Soyun starts to freak out when she realises she can understand English—as a North Korean citizen, she should not be able to speak it at all.
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Shadowrun Returns: Hong Kong: Racter mentions that he speaks 15 languages. However, he is only literate in twelve of them, and, much to his chagrin, never got the hang of Arabic. He gets bonus points for having done it all the old-fashioned way, without datajacks and linguasofts.
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Zack on Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? can speak a large number of languages, which comes in useful as he and his sister travel the globe chasing the eponymous villain.
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Shazam!:
In one Golden Age story, a time-traveling Mary Marvel used the Wisdom of Minerva to speak Atlantean. Her arch-enemy, Mad Scientist's Ugly Daughter Georgina Sivana, was also able to speak it just because she's a genius.
An issue of the New 52 Shazam! comics shows that apparently Billy in his Shazam form can speak any language, as Billy finds out when fighting a giant robot in Japan — he believes that he got this from "the wisdom of Solomon".
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Spring: Louise can speak many languages, probably due to her very long life, including Italian, English, Latin, Arabic, and Turkish.
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In WALL•E, EVE, being a robot, is capable of communicating in various languages. When she first encounters WALL•E, she tries to ask him what his directive is in several languages before finding the one he recognizes: English.
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The Pony POV Series has Private Running Gag, a member of Shining Armor's team in his Arc. His special talent is languages, and, in a manner similar to Fluttershy's ability to communicate with any animal on first meeting, only needs to hear someone speak in that language once or twice to be able to understand and speak it. This, obviously, makes him a very handy translator to have on a world tour. It also comes in very handy during the Changeling invasion in the Wedding Arc.
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PAW Patrol: Cap'n Turbot not only Speaks Fluent Animal, but he is also able to understand alien, and even alien rock.
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In Benidorm it's revealed that in addition to Spanish and English, Mateo can also speak Italian, French, and German.
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In 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Nemo is fluent in French, English, German, Latin, the constructed language he uses with his crew and probably far more languages.
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A Song of Ice and Fire has Missandei, who is specifically taken into Daenerys's court for her skill with languages. Somewhat justified, as Missandei is a child, and children learn languages better than adults, and she has been exposed to many languages in her life.
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Witches Wizards Shadows and Souls:
Yami Yugi knows Japanese, Ancient Egyptian, Babylonian, Hebrew, and now English courtesy of a language patch.
In the same vein, Malik knows Arabic, Ancient Egyptian, and Japanese, and now he also has a language patch for English.
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From The A-Team:
This is also a Casting Gag, as the actor playing Murdock is from South Africa, and does, in fact, speak Swahili.
It's also a Mythology Gag: in one episode of the series Murdock effortlessly translated Mandarin graffiti, surprising everyone.
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Law & Order:
Law & Order's Ed Green can speak English, Spanish, French, and "enough Russian to get a date". It's unclear if he's fluent in French, however, and this is partially explained by the fact that he moved around a lot as a young child, sometimes living in French-speaking African countries.
Law & Order: Criminal Intent's Detective Carolyn Barek can speak Spanish, Yiddish, Italian, Polish, some Creole, some Russian, and some Cantonese from working in Chinatown. Detective Serena Stevens is said to be a "linguistic savant" as well. Largely an Informed Ability; in her entire (admittedly short) run on the show, she uses the skill exactly once, in her first episode.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit's Olivia Benson speaks English, Italian, some Spanish and French, and is able to read the Miranda warnings in at least two other languages. In one episode, without being able to hear her, Fin knew she was speaking Italian to a European colleague thanks to the Italians Talk with Hands trope.
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Little Hands, Big Attitude: Mephiles is dismayed to find out that he lost this particular ability after he was de-aged to an infant, so now he has to learn English the hard way - via exposure.
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Sisterhood Series by Fern Michaels: Some instances of this trope have popped up. The Vigilantes all speak English for starters. Kathryn Lucas reveals in the first book Weekend Warriors that she knows German (to what extent is not revealed), and she is quite fluent in Spanish. Yoko Akia is quite fluent in Chinese as the book Vendetta shows, Free Fall indicates that she can speak Japanese, but she states in Hide And Seek that she can't speak German because it's so guttural and too hard on her tongue. After the book Free Fall, the Vigilantes are required to learn Spanish and German. Despite this, Isabelle Flanders is unable to speak Spanish very well in Cross Roads. The book Fast Track has the Vigilantes finding out that Rena Gold speaks three languages, but they just scoff and one of them says, "Yeah! Fluent in Brooklynese, Southern belle, and kitchey-coo!" Harry Wong apparently knows a lot of languages, but it is never stated what they are or how many he knows, and it seems that he just uses them to curse and show that he is beyond furious.
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In Good Omens, Crowley and Aziraphale have universal fluency. Justified, of course, in that they're a demon and an angel, respectively. It would be rather silly (and interfere with their work) for them not to have this ability.
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X-Force: Shatterstar possesses enhanced learning capabilities and mastered Spanish by watching television. He's since been shown to be fluent in at least one other language (German) and probably speaks several others.
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The Joker uses this as a weapon in I'm a Marvel... And I'm a DC. While torturing the Green Goblin, he orders Lance to teach Gobbie Portuguese and Spanish, the entire language, at once.
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Vigilantes' Dawn: Laurel can speak multiple languages like Oliver. Thus far, it's confirmed she knows Russian and Arabic. As she's had the same training as canon Sara, she may know Cantonese as well.
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The DCU:
Batman: Not surprisingly, Bruce Wayne has mastered quite a few languages. In addition to his native English, he also speaks Spanish, French, Japanese, German, Russian, at least two dialects of Chinese, Latin, Kryptonese (and you thought Latin was a dead language), Urdu, Arabic, Vietnamese and presumably many more.
He could not speak Arabic in the continuity of Batman: The Animated Series, however (as seen in the episode "If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?"), and needed to use his portable computer to translate it.
David Cain (the father of former Batgirl Cassandra Cain) can say "That's nice. Now get me a Scotch or I'll rip your lungs out" in every Earth-native language in existence.
Dick Grayson also speaks many languages including English, some Romani (though mostly from circus slang), French, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, the alien language of Tamaran, and American Sign Language. He is occasionally shown to have trouble reading Japanese though.
Tim Drake has demonstrated or claimed at least some proficiency in Spanish, Cantonese, Russian, German and French in addition to his native English by the time he picks up the Red Robin mantle.
While spending time in prison, Bane learned six different languages.
Aside from English, Kate Kane is fluent in Pashto and speaks at least some Yiddish and Portuguese; it's implied she also speaks French. Her twin sister Beth speaks English, French, and German.
Birds of Prey: Lady Blackhawk can order beer in thirty languages.
Impulse: Impulse's mother learned English in 8 seconds thanks to super speed.
Max Mercury duplicated the trick... mostly... when he was introduced to Impulse's mother. Bart gave him a "speed course" in Interlaq with a few 'errors'.
Green Lantern: The Lantern Corps' rings let them speak any language (with extremely rare exceptions when the ring doesn't recognize the language), which is useful, considering that they are something akin to a galactic police force.
Shadowpact: Drinking water from the Fountain of Youth gave Detective Chimp this ability, in addition to extreme longevity. He can speak "any language of man, beast, or monster". Since Rex the Wonder Dog has the same origin, and also speaks to humans, he presumably has the same Omniglot ability.
Shazam!:
In one Golden Age story, a time-traveling Mary Marvel used the Wisdom of Minerva to speak Atlantean. Her arch-enemy, Mad Scientist's Ugly Daughter Georgina Sivana, was also able to speak it just because she's a genius.
An issue of the New 52 Shazam! comics shows that apparently Billy in his Shazam form can speak any language, as Billy finds out when fighting a giant robot in Japan — he believes that he got this from "the wisdom of Solomon".
Superman:
The Silver Age Superman, by virtue of super-intelligence, being one of his (rarely used) powers. He went and taught himself every language on Earth just because he wanted to be able to talk to anyone he was saving in their native tongue. Speaks a few alien languages, too. It occasionally pops up in modern comics as well. Supergirl as well, upon first arriving on Earth was noticed of learning not only English but several other languages as well... within the span of a month. This continued on to later Superman incarnations, notably Superman speaking fluent Russian in Superman IV: The Quest for Peace and to Kong Kenan in Mandarin in New Super-Man.
Lex Luthor is fluent in an untold number of languages, thanks to being a genius-level person.
The New 52 version of the Silver Banshee can instantly learn any language she hears, which allows her to talk to Supergirl, who can only speak Kryptonian.
Teen Titans: Starfire has the ability to learn any language, just by physical contact with a native speaker, but she usually kisses the speaker in question. (During a crossover with X-Men, Nightwing apologizes to Professor X for Starfire kissing Colossus when he mutters to himself in Russian. Nightcrawler's reaction: "Fräulein, sprechen sie Deutsche?") It is unknown how many languages she currently speaks, but it looks like she has the potential to speak... all of them. However, this is a trait of her species, and she still has an "accent" if you call it that.
Wonder Woman: In several continuities, innate knowledge of all languages on Earth is one of the powers granted to Wonder Woman, and in all continuities, she knows a vast number of languages and is supernaturally good at picking up new ones no matter their planet of origin such as Saturnian and Sangtian.
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Being a robot, Bender from Futurama can actually have languages installed into his system, and if he ever resets, will instantly pick up the language of his surroundings, even animals.
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Annie Walker, the protagonist of Covert Affairs, was recruited into the CIA in no small part due to her skill with languages. The show never actually says how many languages she is fluent in, probably so that they can have her be fluent in whatever language is necessary for the plot that week. The implication, though, is that she can pick up new languages very quickly when needed.
In the pilot, she is sent to meet a Russian man at a hotel. The guy starts hitting on her, using Russian-sounding diminutives on her. Except she quickly figures out they're not Russian. She checks with her linguistics professor who confirms that they are, in fact, from one of the Baltic countries. This is a clue that the guy she met wasn't the Russian man she was supposed to meet.
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In Lucifer (2016), the title character can speak every language; he can't read them all, though, as he thought speaking was more useful. When they find a book written in ancient Mesopotamian, he needs his brother Amenadiel to translate it.
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It's a little more subtle than most of these examples, but Velma on Scooby-Doo seems to be able to read absolutely any language, no matter how obscure or ancient.
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Vork from The Guild claims to know all languages at one point. Aside from English, we see him speak Korean and Hindi. This is very likely a reference to the quote at the top of this page.
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According to some bios and the novelization for Metal Gear Solid, Decoy Octopus is fluent in twelve languages, at least some of the languages being English, Spanish, French, German, and Ebonics (the first two are presumably his native languages, seeing how according to those sources, he was born in Mexico).
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Final Fantasy has a couple of examples from different games in the series:
Final Fantasy VI has Mog, a moogle who can speak the same language as humans effortlessly (when all other moogles can just say "Kupo!"). This is justified by the moogle himself, who explains that the Esper Ramuh taught him to speak their language in his dreams, and told him to seek the party out and help the cause. He still usays "Kupo!" at the end of some sentences.
in Final Fantasy X the main character, Tidus, can learn the Al Bhed Language after completing a world-spanning Collection Sidequest to find Al Bhed Primers. By the end of the game, once you've collected all 26 primers, Tidus will be completely fluent in speaking Al Bhed.
Player characters in Final Fantasy XIV possess a power known as the Echo, one of the effects of which is the ability to understand any spoken language.
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Chloe Carmichael from The Fairly OddParents! knows 12 languages, including communicating with dolphins.
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Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords handles the situation a little more believably; you don't actually know all those languages, but a small sonic imprint sensor you picked up in the first level is equipped with a translator unit that helps you out and you don't run across anyone who speaks anything obscure.
Except Darth Nihilus.
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Tuomas Holopainen of Nightwish has written songs or pieces of songs in English, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, and Welsh.
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In Rhapsodies, bandmember, Hsin, has been shown to be fluent in several Chinese dialects, Russian, Korean, and may know several more. Because of his atrocious English, this usually catches his friends by surprise. English, he's quick to point out, is his "last" language.
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A bunch of the game lines likewise have powers that take care of this. Werewolf: The Forsaken has at least three language-derived Gifts, ranging from "you instantly pick up the native language" to "you can understand what anyone says, but you can't converse back." Mage: The Awakening has Mind rotes that let you blow past the language barrier. Promethean: The Created has Transmutations that allow a Promethean to translate any written language and speak in a tongue that everyone understands. And Changeling: The Lost has a Merit that allows a changeling to temporarily draw upon a language by using the Wyrd to draw upon the collective unconscious.
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Rey from The Force Awakens can speak Verbal Binary (the Droid language) fluently, as well having skills at whatever scavenger dialect is spoken at the start of the movie. Notably, Finn can only understand Basic, being able to speak to, but not understand either BB8 or Chewbacca.
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Heather Dale is either this or a Cunning Linguist, given the number of songs she's pulled off in not just English, but Gaelic, French (well, she is Canadian), and even, in one case, Huron, or Wendat.
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The Boondock Saints: The boys speak multiple languages, apparently because "[their] mother insisted on it."
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Danger Mouse can speak 47 languages fluently... "but gibberish isn't one of them" (from Close Encounters Of The Absurd Kind).
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Temeraire
Most dragons in his world learn languages literally before hatching, but the titular dragon and other Celestials continue to absorb languages like a sponge even after reaching their full growth. Temeraire can pick up and speak a language to something approaching a basic level after spending only a few days around it, allowing him to act as a translator in his and his retinue's many globetrotting adventures in addition to being, you know, a flying death machine.
The wanderer Tharkay, while lacking draconic natural advantages, has demonstrated good to excellent knowledge of Cantonese, Mandarin, multiple Turkic languages, and even Durzagh, the language of a wild dragon tribe in the Tien Shan mountains that has click consonants and is designed for draconic vocal tracts and not human ones.
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The Seersa race in the Paradox universe were designed to be this, its said that every one of them knows twenty tongues and they developed the Universal language for The Alliance and most of their Pelted kin's original racial languages.
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Nona the Ninth: Nona is a Blank Slate but can understand and perfectly speak any spoken language just by "watching them talk and making her lips move like theirs", a feat that confounds even seasoned magical scholars. She can even use the Brown Note speech of the Resurrection Beasts.
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In And Then I Turned Into a Mermaid, Myla's merpower - the unique ability every mermaid has that only works when they're in mer form - is the ability to understand all sea languages, with the exception of Kelpish, which is only spoken in rivers and streams. She uses her ability to study ancient aquatic texts.
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Robot Chicken: According to a sketch, C-3PO is fluent in 6,000,000 languages except Spanish.
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Dragons in Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid can learn languages very quickly (though it's not specified if it's due to magic or an inborn talent). Kanna is seen picking up English during a trip to New York City by just listening to people in a crowd talking for a few seconds.
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Good Omens (2019): All angels and demons can speak any human language.
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In Cahe Detective Club, Risa reveals that her ability to speak English well is less from being a Gamer Chick and more from having a family that globe-trots from time to time. She also explains she can speak Spanish, Italian, and French.
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Big Boss, his father, is not any different, being explicitly shown to know Russian and English (the former due to his tutelage under The Boss), and is implied to be fluent in French as well, and at the very least has some knowledge of Spanish in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. In one briefing tape, it's also implied that he subconsciously learned how to speak cat.
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Ayla from Earth's Children can learn a new language in approximately a week.
And let's not forget she can also talk to birds, well enough for actual birds to be confused and think she is one. Those are some adaptive vocal cords.
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Captain Kanril Eleya of Bait and Switch (STO) is fluent in English and several dialects of Bajoran besides her native Kendran dialect. She also had to be conversant in Klingonese and Cardassian to qualify for off-world service when she was in the Bajoran Militia, although she's not fluent: in The Universe Doesn't Cheat, she speaks a few lines in tlhIngan Hol which are described by an onlooker as "accurate, but badly accented".
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In Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo, Raven is wandering around the eponymous city looking for something to do. She arrives at a news-stand and asks if they carry anything in English, German, Latin, Romanian, Ancient Sumerian, or Sanskrit. Apparently, Starfire and her kind have the ability to gain and understand another's language just by kissing them (which she demonstrated by smooching a Japanese stranger), though her odd speech patterns suggest that these kisses only teach her species the words of each new language, not necessarily the grammar and certainly not metaphors. On the other hand, her sister speaks English more fluently than her and seems to have no problems with any of these things.
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Cameron from Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles shows fluency in every language she has come in contact with (English, Armenian, Russian, Spanish, and Japanese as of the end of the second season). It stands to reason that she knows many more as well, as she does have a very good memory.
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In The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne, Passepartout is a subversion of this. As Fogg puts it: "He speaks fourteen languages. All of them badly."
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Fourth-edition Shadowrun has the Linguist quality, which raises all knowledge skills the player has ranks in by two ranks, and the Linguistics Adept power, allowing an Adept to make an ability check to learn a language at skill rank one after being exposed to it for several hours. A character designed for the purpose can fly to any city in the world, spend four or five hours wandering around on the streets, and come back fluent in anything short of technical subjects in the local language essentially for free.
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In Renegades, during the tryouts for the eponymous organization, one of the candidates can speak every language in the world. While he's not picked for a superhero team, the council that rules the city does hire him, for obvious reasons.
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The Uryuoms in El Goonish Shive have the ability to psychically learn and teach languages almost instantly through rubbing their antennae for three seconds on the forehead of whoever they want to learn a language from or teach to. This ability only works with languages, though.
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In the Left Behind series, Nicholai Carpathia speaks nine languages and insists on using them all at every opportunity. The former is justified because he's the Antichrist. The latter is just unnecessary.
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Warhammer has Wulfrik the Wanderer, a warrior who drunkenly boasted he could kill any warrior anywhere, and now wanders reality for eternity proving that. He has the ability "Gift of Tongues", which lets him speak any language anywhere. He uses this to deliver the most heinous insults possible to his enemies; in game terms, if he issues a challenge to another character, they cannot refuse, because they're too pissed off by his insults to back down.
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Also, Wikko Warnerpuff, one of the newest students at Acme Looniversity — naturally, being a parody of Bubbles. And she can understand Beaker.
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The Spy from Team Fortress 2 is French, and is fluent (apparently) in English, French, Spanish, and Italian (and possibly other languages too).
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The Foxy Bard claims he can sing in over 40 languages (though he doesn't actually speak all of them fluently). So far, he's done English, Spanish, German, Yiddish, Ladino, Hebrew, Irish, Mandarin, Dutch, Italian, Greek, Latin, Russian, Japanese, Portuguese, Catalan, Finnish, Polish, Occitan, French, Danish, Middle English, Norwegian, Arabic, Swahili, Scots, Esperanto, Dovah, and Klingon. There's a playlist of "Pick a Language" videos where fans comment a language on his videos and he has to perform something in it.
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in Final Fantasy X the main character, Tidus, can learn the Al Bhed Language after completing a world-spanning Collection Sidequest to find Al Bhed Primers. By the end of the game, once you've collected all 26 primers, Tidus will be completely fluent in speaking Al Bhed.
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New Mutants: This X-Men spinoff features the character Doug Ramsey/'Cypher', whose power is to do this with any language, even if it should have been completely incomprehensible to the human mind. This extends even to raw computer binaries, dead written languages for which no "Rosetta stone" exists, and an alien Starfish Language.
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Eclipse Phase:
A trait called Hyper Linguist — it reduces the time and cost to learn Language skills to one-third, lets your character automatically learn a language through a single day of complete immersion, and grants a + 10 modifier to interpreting languages they don't know. Given that you need 50 points in a language skill to be fluent, and you normally require one Rez Point per skill point and one week of studying per point, plus you're restricted to 5 points in a skill per month, this is very handy if you're not planning to rely on your Muse's translation program for communication. It can also be varying degrees of justified, as your character can be anything from a custom-programmed AI to a centuries-old world-weary immortal, and it's available as a fairly cheap Biomod though that doesn't transfer when you Body Surf like the trait.
There's also the Pattern Recognition psi-slight, which gives a + 20 modifier to interpreting any human language that they have had a few hours of exposure too but can't automatically learn the language and only reduces training time by half. But it can be used to interpret alien languages as well, Hyper Linguist only works with human languages, and given a week or so can crack most ciphers. It also costs half as much, assuming the slightly insane prerequisites are already met.
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Devils in High School D×D have the ability Language, which allows them to verbally communicate in any language. After reincarnating as a devil, Issei finds himself having to make deliberate mistakes in his English classes to avoid suspicion on how he suddenly became fluent.
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Johannes Cabal and the Fear Institute: Implied when the ghoul leader tells Cabal to speak in any human tongue he wants, since his ghoulish accent is terrible. Subverted with The Reveal that the ghoul is Cabal himself in a Stable Time Loop and therefore knows every language Cabal does.
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Doctor Who:
Although the TARDIS automatically translates languages, the Doctor is shown to speak alien languages without the TARDIS as well, including Judoon in "The Stolen Earth", English in "The Three Doctors" (when the TARDIS was temporarily in another universe), and even an obscure language that is "spoken" by the movement of eyebrows. Justified by having had several centuries to learn. A language that was older than the Time Lords, however, was indecipherable to them. In "Planet of the Dead", the Tenth Doctor tells his companion that he speaks "every language". Considering that he was cut off from the TARDIS and chatting with a giant fly at the time, there's no reason to doubt him. In "The Enemy of the World", the Second Doctor says it's going to take him a while to learn a new language in order to impersonate Salamander (presumably Spanish). The Doctor knows a few Sycoraxic insults in "The Christmas Invasion".
The Judoon are examples of this trope. In their first appearance, their commanding officer barks orders in their language, records an utterance from one of the medical staff using a device, and plugs it into his armor; he then spends the episode speaking in fluent "Earth English".
In the parody special The Curse of Fatal Death, both the Doctor and the Master are shown to be able to speak a language spoken entirely by the modulated passing of wind. This episode, however, is not canon, even though it was written by eventual showrunner Steven Moffat.
The Eleventh Doctor even speaks baby. As in, he understands what a baby is trying to say when it gurgles.
This joke continues with Eleven being able to speak horse. He must have learned both Baby and Horse at some point before that incarnation since Nine and Ten spoke to a baby Rose, several cats, and a horse from pre-revolutionary France lost on a spaceship.
Somewhere along the line, they even picked up Tyrannosaurus rex(!), as the Twelfth Doctor was able to understand one almost immediately after his regeneration.
In "Wild Blue Yonder", the Fourteenth Doctor claims to be able to speak 57,000,000,205 languages. Unfortunately, the language being used abord the Ghost Ship he and Donna are on is not one of them, and the TARDIS has abandoned them as a security measure so it can't translate.
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Asterix: Getafix can speak Latin, proto-Germanic (called Gothic in-universe), and several other languages.
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John Doe: John Doe can speak and understand any human language, but that's part of his Omniscient Hero power. This becomes a plot point in one episode, when this episode's Big Bad is talking to someone in Farsi, thinking that no one around him understands the language. Doe not only understands it but also knows that the phrase "Bedouin Prince" refers to a ship.
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In the Vanessa "Michael" Munroe series, Munroe speaks 22 languages as of The Innocent.
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Flashman, in Fraser's works, seems to pick up foreign languages far more easily than can be explained for reasons beyond the requirements of plot. Notable exceptions include Danish and Apache, which he finds impossible to learn even when immersed in the culture.
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To Hell and Back (Arrowverse) has Oliver, who knows dozens of languages, and can even speak in different dialects of said languages.
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Practically a running gag with the number of people in Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series who know multiple languages. Jamie and Lord John are both fluent in English, French, German, Ancient Greek, and Ancient Latin, though Jamie outdoes him with additional fluency in Gaelic, proficiency in Spanish, and being conversational in Cherokee. Roger is fluent in English, Gaelic, Ancient Greek and Ancient Latin; Ian in English, Gaelic, Mohawk and a few other Indian languages; Jenny in English, Gaelic and French; and Claire in English, French, and limited Gaelic(she understands more than she can speak). Fergus, Marsali, and their children are implied to be fluent in English, French(from Fergus), and Gaelic (from Marsali). Inverted with Brianna, who apart from English only speaks Gaelic and what is referred to as "bastard(basic) French".
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Person of Interest: Reese speaks at least four languages (English, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish).
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Chuck from Pushing Daisies is a passionate student of language, speaking French, Japanese, Mandarin (though her grasp of the latter is 'rusty'), and probably others.
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Teen Titans: Starfire has the ability to learn any language, just by physical contact with a native speaker, but she usually kisses the speaker in question. (During a crossover with X-Men, Nightwing apologizes to Professor X for Starfire kissing Colossus when he mutters to himself in Russian. Nightcrawler's reaction: "Fräulein, sprechen sie Deutsche?") It is unknown how many languages she currently speaks, but it looks like she has the potential to speak... all of them. However, this is a trait of her species, and she still has an "accent" if you call it that.
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Tiffany Aching, after A Hat Full of Sky, can understand most languages, especially ancient ones, thanks to the remnant of a wizard's memory stuck in her head.
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Evolve plays with this in regards to Bucket, and by extension all other Rank-Rajat Minds. He has the capability to speak any and every language but is limited by which dictionaries he currently has loaded. Bucket himself doesn't have many at a time, but he still has more than any meatbag.
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In Seekers of the Sky, a Magyar (Hungarian) boy named Peter turns out to be fluent in eight languages: his native Magyar, Romanic (Latin), Gallic (French), Russian, Judaic (Hebrew), Ottoman (Turkish), Germanic, and Iberian (Spanish, Portuguese, or a mix of both). Oh, and he's teaching himself Chinese as well. Results in a moment of Bilingual Backfire, when two characters try to speak privately in Gallic, while Peter is giving them a tour of the city, only for Peter to ask in the same language if they'd like him to step away for a minute.
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Daredevil: Mark Waid's run features Austin Cao, a client of Matt Murdock's. Austin worked in Language Services at Midas Investments; he speaks 17 languages fluently and another 10 passably.
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My Life as a Teenage Robot: Jenny is shown to have language disks in her mouth that allow her to speak any language, however, we have only seen her speaking English and Japanese.
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Criminal Minds:
It started out simply enough with Elle in the first two seasons, who speaks English and Spanish.
Elle's replacement, Emily Prentiss, is the daughter of diplomats and spent her childhood traveling and living around the world. Throughout her tenure, she demonstrated familiarity with Russian, Spanish, French, and enough Arabic to identify its accent (Egyptian, though she was not shown to actually speak it, she was brought on as a translator in case the terrorist they were interviewing switched to his native language).
Then there's Prentiss's replacement, linguist Alex Blake. Though she only demonstrates English and American Sign Language, she's shown to at least understand written French (and recognize the dialect as creole, rather than just French), German, and the International Phonetic Alphabet. Her academic focus seems to be more on English itself, though the one class we see her teaching has her discussing variation and pidgin languages.
Early-Installment Weirdness has Reid explicitly unable to read Russian, while a later episode states that he "reread War and Peace in the original Russian" before breakfast. He's also been shown to speak it, along with French, Korean (he offered to do a "simultaneous whisper-translation" for an un-dubbed film festival), and Yoruba (a Nigerian language), the last of which surprises even an FBI translator (who doesn't seem to speak it herself).
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Since Nicole doesn't have omniglot powers, she has to point and scream at the Avians to get mana melons. Likewise, to escape the island of New York, she and Richard use a tablet to depict the Avians carrying them across the cylindrical sea, in Rama II. This is an aversion at a time it would be most useful - on an alien zoo.
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In The Jungle Book, Mowgli — and by extension his teacher Baloo — know all the languages of all the creatures of the jungle. Baloo knows them because he's old, wise, and accepted everywhere, and he teaches Mowgli them because being a "mancub" means that nobody will accept his presence at all unless he learns their language. Mowgli eventually one-ups Baloo by adding the Indian human tongue to his list.
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Kellhus of Second Apocalypse has a perfect memory, above-genius level intellect, and an insatiable thirst for knowledge. It's no surprise that he learns new languages in about a week, just from talking with people who speak it. He even became fluent in the ancient language of magic in two weeks—which took his genius teacher six months to learn the grammar.
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Soulcalibur has Greek, Japanese, Korean, French, English, German, Tagalog, Chinese (which has its own numerous dialects), one of the Native American Languages, Spanish, and that's to start.
Lampshaded in the background fluff where Mitsurugi had difficulty finding work as a mercenary in Europe due to language barriers.
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The literary Tarzan of the Apes is a master of many languages, in stark contrast to the early film versions of Tarzan. In Tarzan of the Apes he starts out speaking the language of the Mangani (the apes who raised him), then quickly learns French and English. In The Return of Tarzan he adds Arabic and then the language of his adopted African tribe, the Waziri. Throughout the rest of the Burroughs novels, Tarzan picks up at least one new language in almost every book.
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Meanwhile, the spinoff, Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders, which focuses on international travel has their own linguist who speaks... three languages. She and the rest of the team tend to rely on the locals speaking English.
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Mrs. Arrow from the F-Zero games speaks over 40 languages, including Octoman's native tongue.
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Though he only uses this ability to learn Dwarven, the titular Tomba! can learn anyone's language by biting a few different people who speak it.
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In Rogues of the Republic, Kail knows at least enough to tell you that He Banged Your Mom in every language, even the tongue of the ancients. It's unclear if he can do more than that, but he's at least studied enough to do it flawlessly.
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The Atlanteans in Atlantis: The Lost Empire are implied to know every single language in the world in addition to their own (including, but most likely not limited to, English and French). The main character also qualifies. He seems knowledgeable about a lot of languages, converses with the Atlanteans in several, and can read Atlantean just from comparing it to others. Milo justifies it by being a linguist, having studied language almost all his life.
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Etra chan saw it!: Akane brags a lot about how great America is while looking down the Japanese culture after she went studying abroad there, this causes an old man Tokusa to speak German, French, Russian, and Mandarin Chinese to her asking why she looks down the Japanese culture. His grandson Hiiragi reveals that he was an intelligence agent during the World War II.
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In The Infinite Loops, Fluttershy eventually realizes that anyone who bears an Element of Kindness (currently being her, Silver Spoon, and Chrysalis) gains the ability to speak and understand every language, even those from other Loops.
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In the Warrior Cats series, Midnight the badger is able to speak Badger, Rabbit, Fox, and a few types of Cat, whereas everything else in the series can only speak in the language of its own species (except for one case where a cat knows a little bit of Dog). Why and how she managed to learn all of these is never explained.
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David Cain (the father of former Batgirl Cassandra Cain) can say "That's nice. Now get me a Scotch or I'll rip your lungs out" in every Earth-native language in existence.
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Hissy in Tales of MU speaks just about every language that's been mentioned in the story and can apparently pick up new ones very easily, as they're all simpler than her native Lizardfolk language.
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Sora in No Game No Life knows a few languages but not enough for this trope. His sister Shiro, on the other hand, knows 18 languages including their classical versions. This is topped by the Flügel Jibril who states to know 700 languages and it's a plot point as well since the fact she has never seen Japanese script confirms the claim of Shiro and Sora that they weren't born in Disboard.
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Richard Ranasinghe de Vulpian in The Case Files of Jeweler Richard speaks no fewer than seventeen confirmed languages fluently.
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In Arrival, the protagonist can speak plenty of languages ranging from Farsi to Sanskrit to Mandarin to (later in the film) the language of the Heptapods. Her skill is the reason she was hired by the government, and it is crucial for the overall plot.
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Fenris from Dragon Age II is an ex-slave with no formal education and memory issues to boot, but nonetheless speaks at least three languages: Tevene - his native language, Common Tongue, and Qunlat. He picked up the last one by listening to them. He also knows enough elvish to hold a conversation, though it's not known if he's fluent.
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Caroline from 2 Broke Girls is shown to speak several languages including Korean, Japanese, Spanish, and French. She likely picked those up from her past rich life, although she admits her French isn't very good and she only does it to impress Americans.
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Tekken is even worse ... Japanese, English, Korean, Chinese, Portuguese, and Spanish at least. And then there's four animal characters, none of whom share species, yet seem to converse perfectly fine with each other and occasionally the humans as well. This doesn't even address why one Chinese girl seems to only speak Japanese, or the Mexican wrestler just uses jaguar snarls.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
Dawn Summers somehow found the time to learn at least Turkish and Sumerian(!) off-screen in a matter of months. Not many languages, true, but pretty impressive.
Somewhat more expansively, any Watcher (including Giles and Wesley) may be assumed to know an arbitrarily large number of ancient and demonic languages.
Andrew Wells is good at speaking demon languages as well as summoning them.
The introductory scene of the Season 5 Big Bad Glory has her effortlessly changing from Czech to English in mid-sentence. She can speak demon languages too, and it's implied any other language as well, as she's a Physical God.
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Sunny and her friends in Akata Witch all speak more than two languages. Sunny, Orlu, and Chichi all speak Igbo, English, and Nigerian Pidgin English. Chichi also speaks Efik. Sasha speaks English, French, Spanish, Hausa, Igbo, and Arabic.
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The GURPS basic set has Language Talent advantage. In Third Edition, when paired with high intelligence, this made it possible for a character to learn 20 languages or more for just a handful of points. Fourth Edition changed the way languages worked in the game, making Language Talent a much milder advantage.
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Athena Cykes of Ace Attorney may be a native Japanifornian, but has spent enough time in Europe to pepper her speech with Gratuitous Foreign Language. Which foreign language? Yes.
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Star Wars Legends:
As the protagonist of Knights of the Old Republic, you know almost every language you come across, seeing them as subtitles. A Wookiee character is surprised that you can understand him — really, to facilitate Bilingual Dialogue most Star Wars characters understand if not speak several languages — and you have the option to wonder to an assassination droid with translator capacities why you can't understand the Sandpeople tongue. HK tells you that he knows you pick up languages with the help of the Force, but it doesn't substitute for actual linguistic training (he speculates that the Sand People being deliberately obscurantist with their language contributes; they don't want you to understand). Towards the end of the game, only you can understand Rakatan, which startles your companions. As the Dark Lord Revan, you ripped the language out of their heads and forced them to comprehend Basic.
Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords handles the situation a little more believably; you don't actually know all those languages, but a small sonic imprint sensor you picked up in the first level is equipped with a translator unit that helps you out and you don't run across anyone who speaks anything obscure.
Except Darth Nihilus.
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One of the Epic Intelligence Knacks in Scion is Language Mastery — if you listen to a language for a few minutes, you'll speak it with complete fluency. There is a drawback: you can also write that language, but you don't gain automatic mastery of how it's spelled. Even without it, characters use the same system as the World of Darkness below; so even a modestly intelligent character still probably speaks three or four languages.
The Second Edition upgrades it to Omniglot Translation, removing the restriction on writing, to compensate for the fact that characters get fewer Knacks.
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And then there are the other demons, who have the innate ability to speak any language that is considered a "living language" by the denizens of the world, be they mundane or supernatural. So demons can speak the First Tongue of the spirit world but are SOL when it comes to Latin or Akkadian. This often plays a heavy role in demon SIGINT, with the Unchained sending messages back and forth in Tagalog, Urdu, or whatever is unlikely to be translated if intercepted in their local area.
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Stephen Maturin of the Aubrey-Maturin series can speak English, French, Spanish, Catalan and Latin fluently. He can speak Ancient Greek and Portuguese well, though of the latter he says in one of the later books that he has trouble with pronunciation. Over the course of the books he learns Urdu, Arabic and Malay, as well as picking up some Polynesian, Turkish and Berber. His cradle tongue was Irish, but by 15 he had forgotten it; by the second book he can subconsciously understand the Irish-speaking mutineers, and by the fourth he is writing political propaganda. In the rest of the books, he is fluent again.
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Shadowpact: Drinking water from the Fountain of Youth gave Detective Chimp this ability, in addition to extreme longevity. He can speak "any language of man, beast, or monster". Since Rex the Wonder Dog has the same origin, and also speaks to humans, he presumably has the same Omniglot ability.
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Dice Funk: Anne speaks Common, Halfling, Orc, Goblin, and Abyssal. Unfortunately, she isn't quite smart enough to translate accurately...
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In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indy claims that the Nazis will never find Marcus Brody (who has the Grail diary) because he speaks a dozen languages and can blend in with the natives. Cut to Marcus on a busy market square in the Middle East asking if anyone there happens to speak English...or possibly ancient Greek.
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In the continuity introduced by Tomb Raider (2013), Lara Croft is one, which proves useful for an archaeologist. Among the languages she already knows or becomes familiar with are Classical Chinese and Japanese, Medieval Mongolian, Russian, Greek, a Mayan language...
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The Ars Magica 4th Edition Grimoire lists a merit called Gift of Tongues, a quasi-magical trait that when bought at character generation allows the character to effectively speak every human language as if he is a native speaker: the character can understand and talk to any human being, but can only speak one language at a time (meaning that if two people do not share a language, the character can converse with character A in one language and character B in another, and freely translate between the two, but cannot speak a language that both understand at the same time). The merit does not extend to understanding written texts. But it is a common trait, not restricted to mages only, and thus very useful when combined with merits like Widely Travelled.
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Star Trek: Voyager ("Hope and Fear"). Captain Janeway encounters an alien whose species has a natural aptitude for languages (he knows over 4000). And not just natural languages, a bit later he decodes and falsifies an encrypted datastream in his head, despite Voyager having spent weeks trying to break it with powerful computers.
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The Mountain and the Wolf: The Wolf is not only an omniglot thanks to his Gift of Tongues, he can choose to be understood by mutually-exclusive monolingual people as well, such as a Westeros-born warrior and a Nehekharan necrotect, but speaking Dothraki in the presence of that same warrior means he doesn't know what's being said.
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Street Fighter includes people who should be speaking Japanese, English, Chinese, Italian, Spanish, Thai, and Russian. They converse with each other without issues.
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The shorted lived British Sitcom A Prince Among Men has Gary's wife Lisel, who can speak in German and enough English to be able to work as a German-to-English translator. There is also mention of her knowing French and some Japanese words.
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They also veered too hard in the other direction initially in the New World of Darkness. Each language you knew besides your native language was a separate one-to-three-dot merit, and you required two dots to be literate and conversationally fluent — one dot meant you were minimally fluent and illiterate. For reference, this means that it took nearly a third of a character's starting merit dots to be able to read and speak an additional language, and it cost as much in merit dots or experience as having an intuitive sense of impending danger or being a relatively significant celebrity. They quickly rewrote it in the errata so it now acts as the original version of the Linguistics skill, except as a merit.
And the rules update from The God Machine Chronicle splits the difference — there's now Language and Multilingual. Both are one dot, but Language is complete fluency in a single language, while Multilingual is reasonable spoken fluency and a roll to understand writing for two languages.
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Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother seems to randomly know a number of languages including Korean, Mandarin, Latin, French, and possibly others. He's said to speak Ukrainian to his tailor, but it is in fact Russian.
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Charmed (1998): Whitelighters are apparently fluent in whatever language(s) their charges speak. When Piper and Leo magically Swap Roles she's surprised to find herself suddenly speaking French.
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Belisarius is fluent in, at a minimum, Latin, Greek, Ge'ez, Persian, Kushan, and Hindi — the last of which he has to hide for a while, since there was no reasonable explanation for how he could learn to speak it fluently with a native accent in a matter of months. Justified in that his learning is being assisted by an AI from the future.
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Thanks to his mutation, Professor Charles Xavier is capable of mental communication in every language in the world (as X-Men: Apocalypse affirms).
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The People of the Artemis Fowl books are capable of speaking any language, including those of non-human species (such as dogs). This is explained as due to a combination of magic and the fact that every language is apparently descended from Gnommish (the fairy language).
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Bean from Ender's Shadow is noted to pick up new languages with incredible ease: after spending just a few months in Thailand, he's nearly fluent in Thai. This is actually somewhat Justified: since his brain is constantly growing new neurons, he is still capable of the intuitive leaps that young children perform in learning their parents' language. By the end of the first book he's taught himself at least five languages and by the end of the fourth speaks at least a dozen.
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Legion (2017): Amal Farouk, who claims to have lived for thousands of years, peppers his speech with a variety of languages, though he speaks English with a French accent and seems to prefer French. The actor Navid Negahban is himself fluent in four languages, though ironically only began learning French for the role.
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Burn Notice has Michael able to speak pretty much any language the baddies of the week speak, except Spanish, which earns him ridicule from Fiona, as it's the most useful auxiliary language to know when living in Miami and that's where he lived during his childhood. And his Urdu's a little rusty, leading to a My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels moment in a first-season episode. Justified in that he's a former spy, and his assignments over the world required knowledge of various foreign languages to sell his cover I.Ds. In one episode, he pretends to be an ex-KGB agent trying to recruit a South American communist sympathizer. Naturally, he uses Russian, with the fact that neither of them is a native Russian hiding his American accent. However, the sympathizer's Russian is a little rusty, so he asks if they can switch to Spanish. Cue Michael's horrified expression, but he manages to recover by asking to switch to English, which the other man knows as well.
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The characters in Mission: Impossible often traveled to various made-up Eastern European countries, where they never had any trouble communicating with the local bad guys. On the show, all the foreigners spoke English with Just a Stupid Accent, but by all appearances, this is just the Translation Convention, and our heroes are "really" speaking dozens of Eastern European languages flawlessly.
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Skull Island: The Birth of Kong: In this Kong: Skull Island sequel graphic novel, there's Riccio. He already knows multiple languages before he comes in contact with the Iwi, learning their language overnight.
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In X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Omniglot duties fall to Wade Wilson.
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The Bourne Series: One of the first things Jason Bourne learns about himself after his amnesia is he can speak several different languages including Italian, French, and German.
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Lupin III speaks or at least gets by in any language the gang encounters in their heists. This includes several computer languages.
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Kahlan in the Sword of Truth series speaks virtually every language used within the Midlands, thanks to her childhood training as a Confessor, including the languages of various small tribes who are typically unfriendly or homicidal towards outsiders. Partially averted later, as she never bothers to learn High D'Haran so she can help translate all the ancient books of knowledge the heroes keep needing to read.
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Dexter's Laboratory: Demonstrated in the episode "Dream Machine". In Dexter's positive dream, he comprehends the root of all languages.
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Kirika Yumura of Noir is supposed to be fluent in multiple languages, presumably so that she could make herself understood in any region she is trying to track down and kill someone in. However, since the anime auto-translates for the viewer, this is an Informed Ability, and the exact languages she knows are never explicitly stated.
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Captain America can speak English, German, Russian, Spanish, Japanese, French, and Italian. There might be even more that he is lingual in.
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Star Trek: The Next Generation:
In an early episode when Riker considers a promotion to captain of his own ship, Picard informs him his first officer is known for his command of over 40 languages.
Presumably, Data can speak several languages and can learn one simply by flipping through a dictionary, though this is never used thanks to the Universal Translator... until someone needs to learn sign language on short notice. Which he does. (Well, the character did. His actor... not so much.)
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Master of the Index
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