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* ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop'': Pepper does this to Blythe in the pilot episode, unaware that [[SpeaksFluentAnimal Blythe does understand her and the other animals]].

* ''Film/MurderOnTheOrientExpress2017'': Dr. Arbuthnot starts to speak too clearly by telling the non-anglophone sailors that he can help with their engine before catching himself, then taking off his jacket to help.

* In an early episode of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', Cordelia keeps bossing around a Swedish exchange student like a pet with curt, simple phrases and the occasional foreign word. ("Momento! Stay! No!") He's later seen chatting with a member of her GirlPosse in perfectly understandable English. ("Momento this, stay that... does Cordelia not speak English?")

* ''Film/RushHour'': Carter, an English speaker, is speaking to Jackie Chan's character for the first time, and Jackie Chan's character pretends not to speak English.

* In ''Film/ShanghaiNoon'' when Jackie Chan's character (who speaks English) is trying to get directions from a couple Indians (who don't):

** The episode "Darmok" deals with UniversalTranslator Failure and an encounter with friendly, yet absolutely incomprehensible aliens. The problem wasn't a failure to comprehend the ''words'', but it was a failure to comprehend the ''mindset'' and there was a huge ''lack of context'' -- the Tamarians used an extremely metaphorical language, speaking exclusively in references to their stories. Both crews try this approach of speaking loudly and slowly. It slightly worked, but both could grasp only very, very little.

-->-- '''Website/SFDebris''', ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]: "Darmok"'' review

* PlayedForLaughs frequently in ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' concerning Lopez, the Red Team's robot, can only speak Spanish.

* In ''Series/AdamTwelve'', the only person at a residence who is available to tell the officers why they were called speaks very little English. They manage limited communication using pantomime, but Malloy, for some reason, also tries repeating his questions VERY LOUDLY.

* On ''Series/GeneralHospital'', when RichBitch Tracy returns home and encounters her nephew Jason (who suffered a brain injury that erased his memory in the interim that she was away), she speaks to him like this. Jason's contempt for his former life and family ratchets UpToEleven with this.

A person attempts to overcome a LanguageBarrier by simply speaking loudly and slowly or even shouting, believing that it will somehow work. As if the other person had bad hearing or were deaf,[[note]]incidentally, talking loudly to deaf people doesn't help, either; talking slowly ''may'' help if they can lipread[[/note]] and weren't someone who actually doesn't know the language.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'': Clayton tries to get Tarzan to understand the world "gorilla" by shouting it at him. All it results in is Tarzan yelling it right back at him.

** When he himself visited Korea, he was approached by an American tourist who spoke with him in loud English and combined it with Korean-like ElSpanishO.

* ''Website/NotAlwaysWorking'' records an employee of a café attempting shouting [[https://notalwaysright.com/signs-of-trouble-part-2/58346/ to a deaf person]].

* Slightly played with in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. When Applejack (already the resident equivalent of an {{Eagleland}}er) first encounters the ElectiveMute race of kirin and gets no verbal response to her greetings, her first reaction is to speak louder, more slowly, and enunciate more.

* Slightly played with in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. When Applejack (already the resident equivalent of an {{Eagleland}}er) first encounters the ElectiveMute race of kirin and gets no verbal response to her greetings, her first reaction is to speak louder and enunciate more.

* Slightly played with in ''WesternAnimation/FriendshipIsMagic''. When Applejack (already the resident equivalent of an {{Eagleland}}er) first encounters the ElectiveMute race of kirin and gets no verbal response to her greetings, her first reaction is to speak louder and enunciate more.

* ''Series/TheNuttHouse'': Reginald does this to the Swedish twins who come in with Charles. Lampshaded: their response is "This guy thinks we're deaf."

* In an episode of ''Series/RedDwarf'', Lister and the Cat find themselves on a [[ParallelUniverse parallel Earth]] and for some reason believe they are in Bulgaria. They attempt to get by by speaking slowly and clearly and appending "-ski" to all their words, combining it with Bulgarian flavoured ElSpanishO.

In all fairness, there is logic behind this strategy, ''if'' the other party has some knowledge of your language. Someone learning a second language is more likely to understand if it's spoken slowly and distinctly. And even if they have only a passing familiarity, enunciating each word separately raises the odds that they'll pick up enough to follow your meaning. It's only useless if the languages involved are entirely unknown.

This trope is very often PlayedForLaughs as a means of mocking communication and poor foreign language skills. Generally, it will be accompanied by ElSpanishO and a lot of BodyLanguage tropes, both in fiction and in RealLife, since this is TruthInTelevision.