'''Basic Trope''': People associate particular stereotypes with certain languages, such as French being seductive.
* '''Straight''':
** Alice uses her knowledge of French to seduce Bob.
** Whenever Bob is angry at someone, he screams at them in German because he thinks it sounds intimidating.
** Claire has a conversation with her friend in Cantonese. A well-meaning passer-by steps in to try and defuse the 'argument'.
** David [[SirSwearsALot swears like a sailor]], but whenever he does, he does it in Italian.
** Eve speaks Latin to [[SmartPeopleKnowLatin make herself seem smart]].
** [[TheBigGuy Flash]] speaks with a thick Kansai accent to act big and tough. Reactions may vary from [[BoisterousBruiser actually scaring people]] or [[TheIdiotFromOsaka making a dumbass out of himself]].
* '''Exaggerated''':
** The French language is depicted as a form of CharmPerson. Its use is restricted to licensed professionals.
** German is the BlackSpeech. Children cry and plants wither whenever anyone orders a ''Wiener schnitzel''.
* '''Downplayed''':
** Alice uses French to put Bob at ease.
** Bob snaps at people in German to get their attention. ("Achtung!")
* '''Justified''':
** Bob spent a couple of years in France as a young man and had a passionate affair, of which he has blissful memories. He still associates the language with those feelings.
** Alice had a strict German piano teacher as a child, and still associates ''that'' language with stress and misery.
** Bob knows that people naturally associate a German accent with malice, [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler for]] [[AllGermansAreNazis some]] [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII reason]]...
* '''Inverted''': Bob can't see how anyone finds French, the language of [[FrenchJerk snooty waiters]], remotely sexy. But the sound of German makes him think of that glorious {{Oktoberfest}} that he met [[NationalStereotypes Hilda, the busty pigtailed milkmaid...]]
* '''Subverted''':
** Alice tries to speak French so she can seduce Bob, but she fails miserably. Turns out Bob really dislikes the French.
** Bob is angry at someone and yells at them in German. Said someone is a German-speaker (or native) who responds with "[[FlatWhat Ernsthaft?]]"
* '''Double Subverted''':
** Her feelings hurt, she reverts to her native Russian to hurl abuse at Bob. [[YoureCuteWhenYoureAngry He's instantly captivated.]]
** So he, in response, tries Russian. The German speaker then gets into an argument.
* '''Parodied''':
** Every time a man hears a word in French said by a woman, they immediately fall in love with her.
** Alice is actually being extremely pissed with [[AbhorrentAdmirer Bob's insistent attitude]], so she suddenly lapses in a [[ForeignCussWord string of weird and convoluted insults in her native French]]. And since Bob didn't understand a word of what she said, he now believes that she has just said something incredibly romantic, [[DiggingYourselfDeeper like a declaration of undying love!]]
** At first, Alice's French dialogue is subtitled, but after a few sentences the subs [[GagSub start going off on tangents about how dreamy she sounds, eventually not translating anything at all.]]
** Instead of coming off as either a BoisterousBruiser or TheIdiotFromOsaka, Flash somehow manages to invoke a different reaction: The [[ManlyMan epitome of masculinity]] or [[GayCowboy someone who's a regular at Ram Ranch]] (The latter is due to the Kansai accent being translated into a drawl in America).
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': Either no-one speaks a foreign language, or nothing is made of it when they do. The characters are interested in what they can/can't understand, not about how any particular language sounds.
* '''Enforced''': "You know, why don't you make Alice speak some French? Maybe that'll make the viewers go up!"
* '''Lampshaded''': "Whoa, Alice! You sound so hot in French!"
* '''Invoked''':
** Alice takes French lessons to sound sexier on purpose.
** Bob the SternTeacher isn't German, doesn't teach German, and barely speaks any German... but he finds that yelling the occasional angry phrase of it shuts his students up like a shot.
* '''Exploited''': Alice happens to speak French. She can't help it if guys [[IHaveBoobsYouMustObey drop everything they're doing to fawn at her feet every time she opens her mouth]], but she certainly doesn't ''mind'' it...
* '''Defied''':
-->'''Translation''': "I am not trying to chat you up! I'm very very angry! ''Stop smiling like that!!''"
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': Alice, Bob and co have a conversation about which languages they find sexiest.
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Retour à [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench Tout sonne plus sexy en français?]]
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