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* Played with in the Creator/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.]]

** episode [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E66Two "Two"]] involves [[AdamAndEvePlot lone male and female survivors]] from opposing armies falling in love in a post-apocalyptic town.

->''“When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there’s no need to understand what’s happening, because everything happens within you, and even men can turn themselves into wind. As long as the wins helps, of course.”''

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone'':

* It has to be a common fixture for Kryptonians, since, in the Modern Age ContinuityReboot 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.

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* ''Anime/{{Genshiken}}'' between Madarame and OccidentalOtaku Angela.

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* In the ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' fanfiction ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5258470/30/Ah-My-Goddess-Haloes 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]].

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* Married violin/accordion duo Faith i Branko [[https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/life/11364226.Love_and_music_help_couple_beat_the_odds/ actually managed to live this trope.]] When they first met, they didn’t share a language, but they bonded over music.
* The American dancer Isadora Duncan and the Russian poet Sergei Yesenin married in 1922, even though she only knew a few words in Russian and he spoke no foreign languages. They separated in 1923.
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* The American dancer Isadora Duncan and the Russian poet Sergei Yesenin married in 1922, even though Duncan only knew a few words in Russian and he spoke no foreign languages. They separated in 1923.

* ''Series/{{Louie}}'' has the "Elevator" arc where he has a relationship with his neighbor's Hungarian niece.

* ''Disney/{{Pocahontas}}'' has Grandmother Willow, who urges the leading protagonists: "Listen with your heart, you will understand..."

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

* It has to be a common fixture for Kryptonians, since, in the 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.

* ''Series/{{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."

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* 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."

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* The film ''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.

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* In Creator/GuillermoDelToro 's ''Film/TheShapeOfWater'', Elisa the mute human woman teaches the speechless [[FishPerson fish man]] some of her American SignLanguage. (They also bond over their shared love of music and dancing.) She even signs "You. Me. Together" just before [[spoiler:they have sex for the first time]].

* This happens in ''Literature/TheGardenOfGod'', 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.