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* ''[[Film/RoadTo Road To Rio]]'' suggests this trope in the song "You Don't Have To Know The Language".

* In the ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' fanfiction ''Haloes'', Urd has a nasty bout with aphasia that, TruthInTelevision, prevents her to express verbally and in written words. Despite being restricted to complex charades and [[StarfishLanguage wordless music]] to convey her emotions, she manages [[spoiler: to score with Keichi and heal, translating her StarfishLanguage in human words again]].

* Played with in the JohnTravolta film ''Film/{{Phenomenon}}'', in which his character George persuades his best friend to hire a Portuguese woman (a very pretty young widow) as a housekeeper. George records some Portuguese phrases for his friend to learn, claiming that they're phrases like "When can you start?" - in reality, they're romantic comments about her beauty. The woman does, in fact, speak English perfectly well, and George knows it but his friend doesn't find out until they actually meet; George is just trying to hook them up. [[spoiler:It works.]]

* In the ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' fanfiction ''Haloes'', resident FetishFuelStationAttendant Urd has a nasty bout with aphasia that, TruthInTelevision, prevents her to express verbally and in written words. Despite being restricted to complex charades and [[StarfishLanguage wordless music]] to convey her emotions, she manages [[spoiler: to score with Keichi and heal, translating her StarfishLanguage in human words again]].

* The film ''LoveActually'', with the English writer Jamie and his Portuguese maid Aurélia. Neither of them know the other one's language and both of them try to learn it, on Jamie's part with [[HilarityEnsues hilarious results]]). They do manage to fall in love enough to make Jamie propose before they're able to fully communicate with each other.
* In the movie ''How to Murder Your Wife'', Jack Lemmon's character wakes up one day with a hangover and a beautiful wife, who speaks only Italian. He does eventually fall in love with his wife.

* In the Sean Astin movie ''Boy Meets Girl'', he falls for Angelina, who only speaks Italian, and he only speaks English. But thanks to a literal God of Love played by Joe Mantegna, they don't even notice that they don't speak the same language till the initial magic wears off.

* Averted humorously in ''Wayne's World'', when Wayne Campbell "learns" Cantonese in order to speak to his love interest. After purporting to have learned Cantonese, there are scenes where Wayne stares awkwardly at the camera without speaking, while long English paragraphs of complex, translated dialogue appear in the subtitles.

* ''{{Literature/Papillon}}'' took on not one but two wives in the South American tribe he was sheltered in. By the time he married the second, he could rudimentarily communicate with the first wife. But when he married Lali they were still communicating in gestures and nods.
* This happens in ''The Garden of God'', the second novel in the original ''[[TheBlueLagoon Blue Lagoon]]'' stories by H.D. Stacpoole. Dick, the son of the original couple, raised by his grandpa and a sailor, speaks English. Katafa, raised by Kanaka natives, names him Taori and teaches him her language. He never speaks English again until he gets sick and becomes delirious at the end of the third book.

* An episode of ''NightCourt'' had Bull trying to make time (in his own gently loopy way) with a comely, if skeptical, female Swede. She finally comes around, and as the episode ends, starts hitting on him in Swedish. Bull's cheerful comment: "Aw, shuddup."

* In a SilverAge ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' story, humanoid alien astronauts from two worlds crashed on a planet. His name was Kryp, hers Ton. Neither spoke the other's language. Once they got past figuring out how to identify themselves, [[AdamAndEvePlot the rest]] sort of fell into place, since they were stranded.

* A subplot in ''GravitysRainbow'' features a relationship between a Russian soldier (the father of Tchitcherine) and a black African woman. Using scraps of their respective languages, the two of them develop "the beginnings of a new tongue, a pidgin which they were perhaps the only two speakers of in the world."

* {{Papillon}} took on not one but two wives in the South American tribe he was sheltered in. By the time he married the second, he could rudimentarily communicate with the first wife. But when he married Lali they were still communicating in gestures and nods.

-->'''Moe''' ''(Going to her)'': You're a darn cute-lookin' kid. How'd ''you'' ever get mixed up with these bums?

* Moe and Frieda in ''Margin for Error'':
-->'''Moe''' ''(With a sincerity that transcends all the barriers of race and language)'': You're beautiful!\\

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* In the ''AhMyGoddess'' fanfiction ''Haloes'' resident FetishFuelStationAttendant Urd has a nasty bout with aphasia that, TruthInTelevision, prevents her to express verbally and in written words. Despite being restricted to complex charades and [[StarfishLanguage wordless music]] to convey her emotions, she manages [[spoiler: to score with Keichi and heal, translating her StarfishLanguage in human words again]].

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[[caption-width-right:350:"Listen with [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower your heart]], you [[NarmCharm will]] [[ThePowerOfLove understand]]..."]]

* There was a commercial about a man and woman having lunch together at a lavish café. The two were smiling at each other and holding hands. All the while, the man was murmuring things to her in [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench French]]. The woman's response? "I don't understand a word you just said, but I ''like'' it." Ohoho, [[UnsoundEffect scoff, scoff]]. For all she knew, the man could have told her that she smelled like rotten cheese and the woman would not have batted an eyelash.

* There was a commercial that came out ages ago about a man and woman having lunch together at a lavish café. The two were smiling at each other and holding hands. All the while, the man was murmuring things to her in [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench French]]. The woman's response? "I don't understand a word you just said, but I ''like'' it." Ohoho, [[UnsoundEffect scoff, scoff]]. For all she knew, the man could have told her that she smelled like rotten cheese and the woman would not have batted an eyelash.
** There would probably be a few hints, though. Do the French hold hands with and smile at the person they're insulting? Well, come to think of it...

* ''{{Genshiken}}'' has this between Madarame and OccidentalOtaku Angela.

* In a SilverAge {{Superman}} story, humanoid alien astronauts from two worlds crashed on a planet. His name was Kryp, hers Ton. Neither spoke the other's language. Once they got past figuring out how to identify themselves, [[AdamAndEvePlot the rest]] sort of fell into place, since they were stranded.
* It has to be a common fixture for Kryptonians, since, in the current Modern Age {{reboot}} of the DCU, [[Comicbook/{{Legion Of Super-Heroes}} Daxamites]] are an off-shot of Kryptonians and an alien race known as the ''Aboriginal Daxamites''. The retelling lampshades the AdamAndEvePlot, with a friendly Kryptonian asking a cute [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe alien chick]] to join him in their new city. Despite the girl obviously speaking a different language from Kryptonian, she warms up at the friendly gesture, hinting at the origins of the ''current'' Daxamite race.

* ''Film/GalaxyQuest'''s Fred Kwan/Tech Sergeant Chen (played by Tony Shalhoub) and the female Thermian fall deeply in love (apparently she was a fan.) She was the only crewmember aboard the ''Protector'' who lacked a UniversalTranslator, and therefore "spoke" only in brain-piercing, ear-shattering wails and chitters. Not even seeing her real form deterred him, but maybe there's something to be said about those [[NaughtyTentacles prehensile appendages]] Thermians have.
** Not quite...Leilari (the Thermian) was only missing her translator when they initially went to pick up Jason. By the time Fred meets her, she has a working one. She speaks to Fred (and the rest of the crew) quite coherently just before they're all taken to the ship, and although it's a hologram of her talking, it's very likely a live feed.
* Subverted in ''BetterOffDead'', where the love interest pretends to only speak French so she will not have to talk to the family she's rooming with, but reveals that she speaks English later to the John Cusack character.

* While it's not clear they shared anything more than an embrace, in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_The_Year_We_Make_Contact 2010]], a young female cosmonaut who apparently speaks no English spends the aerobraking maneuver cuddling in fear with Dr. Floyd.
** In fact the novel quite explicitly states that nothing else happens between them. It also says that she came to Floyd ''because'' of the language barrier- she would have been to embarassed to do the same with someone who spoke her language.
* While no language barrier is involved, ''Film/ThePiano'' features a romance between a mute woman and an illiterate man.

* In ''RedTails'', Lightning speaks no Italian and Sofia no English, presented almost entirely without subtitles.

* In ''1632'', the first novel of the ''RingOfFire'' series, young 21st-century American Jeff Higgens, after having Saved The Damsel (a 17th century German girl named Gretchen Richter), he is smitten and in less than a day is proposing marriage. Since they have no mutual language, he has to propose using a German/English dictionary. It is said that this bit is based on an actual World War II era marriage between a G.I. and an Italian girl.

* ''{{Seinfeld}}'': In "The Old Man," George was attracted to a woman specifically for this reason. Quote, "I would like to dip my bald head in oil and rub it all over your body."

* The short-lived TV series AliensInAmerica played with this, when the protagonist's little sister falls in love with a German exchange student, neither of which speaks the other's language. They spend the episode making out and being adorable, until at the end someone gets them a translator, and he realizes to his horror she's been going on about clothes this whole time, while she sees to ''her'' horror that he spent his time talking about video games. They break up on the spot.
* The TV show ''TwoGuysAGirlAndAPizzaPlace'' plays on this when Pete falls in love with a beautiful woman who only speaks French. When someone is finally able to translate a conversation, he discovers that she is a terrible person and a racist.

* Series/CallTheMidwife: Len and Conchita Warrens. He's from Poplar, she's from Spain. He speaks only English, she speaks only Spanish. This does not, however, stop them from having 25 children together and be a HappilyMarried couple.

* OlderThanSteam: Creator/WilliamShakespeare used this twice, first in ''Theatre/HenryIV Part 1'', with Mortimer and his wife, who speaks only Welsh, and then in its sequel, ''Theatre/HenryV'', where Henry married Katherine, who speaks almost exclusively French.

* The webcomic ''TsunamiChannel'' does this, with a guy who doesn't speak Japanese and a girl who doesn't speak English. Somehow they understand each other, though, much to the confusion of the rest of the cast. Mind you, this later become a plot point...

* ''[[Franchise/RoadTo Road To Rio]]'' suggests this trope in the song "You Don't Have To Know The Language".

* In the MarvelComics crossover ''The SecretWars'', [[Comicbook/FantasticFour the Human Torch]] and later [[Comicbook/{{X-Men}} Colossus]] both fall in love with an alien woman with healing powers who befriends the heroes, despite not speaking any Earth languages.

* In the ''AhMyGoddess'' fanfiction ''Haloes'' resident FetishFuelStationAttendant Urd has a nasty bout with aphasia that, TruthInTelevision, prevents her to express verbally and and in written words. Despite being restricted to complex charades and [[StarfishLanguage wordless music]] to convey her emotions, she manages [[spoiler: to score with Keichi and heal, translating her StarfishLanguage in human words again]].

* In the {{Ah! My Goddess!}} fanfiction ''Haloes'' resident FetishFuelStationAttendant Urd has a nasty bout with aphasia that, TruthInTelevision, prevents her to express verbally and and in written words. Despite being restricted to complex charades and [[StarfishLanguage wordless music]] to convey her emotions, she manages [[spoiler: to score with Keichi and heal, translating her StarfishLanguage in human words again]].

* In ''Film/{{Stargate}}'', Daniel Jackson falls in love with Sha'uri (Sha're in the [[Series/{{Stargate SG-1}} television show]]) despite Daniel having not learned the language of her planet... yet. Arguably, the scene where they finally learn to translate ''is'' [[GeekyTurnOn when they fall in love]].

* Subverted in ''BetterOffDead'', where the love interest pretends to only speak French so she will not have to speak to the family she's rooming with, but reveals that she speaks English later to the John Cusack character.

* ''RoadTo Rio'' suggests this trope in the song "You Don't Have To Know The Language".

* {{Papillon}} took on not one but two wives in the South American tribe he was sheltered in. By the time he married the second, he could rudimentarilly communicate with the first wife. But when he married Lali they were still communicating in gestures and nods.

* An episode of ''NightCourt'' had Bull trying to make time (in his own gently loopy way) with a comely,if skeptical, female Swede. She finally comes around, and as the episode ends, starts hitting on him in Swedish. Bull's cheerful comment: "Aw, shuddup."

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* TruthInTelevision for Mary of Burgundy (aka Mary the Rich) and Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor. Theirs was a PerfectlyArrangedMarriage and both betrothed allegedly fell in LoveAtFirstSight, although Mary spoke only French and Flemish, while Maximilian spoke only German and Latin. They got married and the young couple was considered the happiest one in Europe of their time.