History PlayingWith / AliensSpeakingEnglish

** The aliens spent a lot of time studying and learning English, only to land their spacecraft on a farm in Kazakhstan where no one understands English.

** The aliens only speak Ukrainian.

* '''Parodied''': The aliens speak in [[IntentionalEngrishForFunny hilariously broken English]] with their thick native accents.

** English is the universe's one true language. Eventually, all alien races' linguistics will convergently evolve into English.

** Aliens arrive on Earth and meet Bob. Bob starts speaking in the aliens' native language.
** Bob lands on the alien's planet and Bob starts speaking in the aliens' native language.

* '''Invoked''': The aliens decide to study the English language before paying a visit to Earth, so that conversations don't end up like weird games of charades.

** At first glance, the aliens seems to speak English, but turn out that they are just repeating random sentences they have heard while watching Earth and which they don't even know the meanings.

** "We don't have time to create a entire new language for the aliens, let's make them speak English and later we create a justification for that."
** TranslationConvention: A rule in which anyone who shouldn't be able to speak fluent English (including human characters) are able to speak English anyway for the audience's convenience.

* '''Invoked''': The aliens decide to study the English language before paying a visit to Earth, so that conversations don't end end up like weird games of charades.

** The world works on ClaspYourHandsIfYouBelieve, and due to movies the idea of non-humans speaking human languages is widespread enough that humans hear aliens speaking their languages. Aliens speaking terran languages is an InUniverse mystery and the first clue that ClaspYourHandsIfYouBelieve is a rule of the universe.

** The aliens have English accents.

** The alien language resembles an Earth language, but an unexpectedly minor one such as Welsh, Danish, or that of a remote tribe in Papua New Guinea.
** After conversing with Bob, the aliens turn to Pablo and hold a conversation with him in fluent Spanish.
** Not only can the aliens speak English, they are also capable of speaking Spanish, French, German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Hindi, [[SpeaksFluentAnimal Dog]], [[{{Omniglot}} etc]].

** The aliens use a [[TranslatorMicrobes universal translator device]] that can somehow decipher any language for ease of communication.

* '''Zig Zagged''': The aliens speak English perfectly well at first, only later they say they have trouble with certain phrases, even though they've been speaking fluently and said they have a total mastery of the language. Bob offers to converse in the aliens language, but no one on earth can learn it, so the aliens go back to speaking fluent English and the matter is never raised again.

* '''Parodied''': The aliens speak in [[{{Engrish}} hilariously broken English]] with their thick native accents.

** Aliens arrive on Earth and meet Bob. Their leader instantly produces an English phrasebook and speaks to Bob in broken English.

** Aliens speak [[StarfishLanguage languages incomprehensible to human beings]].

** Aliens arrive on Earth and meet Bob. The aliens' English is so good that they begin to correct Bob's own English.

* '''Parodied''': The aliens speak {{Engrish}}.

** At first glance, the aliens seems to speak English, but turn out that they are just repeating random sentences they have heard while watching earth and which they don't even know the meanings.

** The aliens are telepathic and learned English by reading Bob's mind.

** Humanity as able to create a futuristic device that translates every language into the mother language of the user and also translates the his speech to the mother language of those who are hearding him.

** The aliens "speak" English because they have TranslatorMicrobes.

** Without their TranslatorMicrobes, the aliens can still speak English.

** The aliens have Cockney accents.

** Aliens arrive on Earth and meet Bob. The aliens' English is so good that they begin to correct Bob's English.

** The aliens not only speak English but also have English names, like Bill and Frank.

** "In order to move the plot along, we need the aliens and the Earthlings to communicate with each other without any language barriers. Make the aliens speak English so our English speaking audience can understand them as well."