Mitth'raw'nuruodo: "We monitored your transmissions as we positioned ourselves to intervene. Though the conversation was of course unintelligible to us, I remembered hearing the phonemes Dubrak Qennto in the Hutt's speech when Captain Quennto later identified himself. The conclusion was obvious."
Jorj Car'das: [in narration] A shiver ran up Car'das's back. A conversation in an alien language, and yet Mitth'raw'nuruodo had been able to memorize enough of it to extract Qennto's name from the gibberish. What kind of creatures were these Chiss, anyway?
Jorj Car'das: [in narration] A shiver ran up Car'das's back. A conversation in an alien language, and yet Mitth'raw'nuruodo had been able to memorize enough of it to extract Qennto's name from the gibberish. What kind of creatures were these Chiss, anyway?
Bender: You speak English?
God: I do now.
God: I do now.
— Futurama
"Of course! Greek and Hebrew are mere play to a heroine; Sanscrit is no more than abc to her; and she can talk with perfect correctness in any language except English. She is a polking polyglott, a Creuzer in crinoline. Poor men! There are so few of you who know even Hebrew; you think it something to boast of if, like Bolingbroke, you only 'understand that sort of learning, and what is writ about it'; and you are perhaps adoring women who can think slightingly of you in all the Semitic languages successively. But, then, as we are almost invariably told, that a heroine has a 'beautifully small head', and as her intellect has probably been early invigorated by an attention to costume and deportment, we may conclude that she can pick up the Oriental tongues, to say nothing of their dialects, with the same aërial facility that the butterfly sips nectar."
Danny: The last few signs have been in Gaelic. It's not one of my languages.
Mac: You speak languages?
Danny: Oh, Italian, French, German, Spanish... Greek and Turkish... Russian, Japanese and Polish. I have a facility with languages.
Mac: You speak languages?
Danny: Oh, Italian, French, German, Spanish... Greek and Turkish... Russian, Japanese and Polish. I have a facility with languages.
"I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse."
— Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Amy: Okay, what are you doing?
The Doctor: I speak baby.
Amy: No, you don't.
The Doctor: I speak everything.
The Doctor: I speak baby.
Amy: No, you don't.
The Doctor: I speak everything.
Maggie: I thought you knew every language.
Bucket: The trick is knowing which dictionaries to load.
Bucket: The trick is knowing which dictionaries to load.
— Bucket describes his use of this trope, Evolve
Gambit: Akki. Wonder what that means?
X-23: Demon. It is a Japanese word.
Gambit: You speak Japanese?
X-23: I am fluent in many languages.
Daken: Funny. So am I. I wonder if it's a family thing.
— X-23, Volume 3 issue 8, "Collision, Part 1"
Kincaid: What does that mean in English?
TuMok My xenoglossic abilities make me fluent in all Earth languages, Citizen Kincaid.
Kincaid: I meant plain English.
"Welcome to Altair IV, gentlemen. I am to transport you to the residence. If you do not speak English, I am at your disposal with 187 other languages, along with their various dialects and sub-tongues."
— Robby the Robot, Forbidden Planet
"You speak English too. What's the chance of the same language developing both here and... wherever you come from, even if we have similar genes?"
"Infinitesimal," she admitted. "But I've been on your planet for ten years. I can speak 31 native languages."
— JAM Jars by Robert Hood
If I could talk to the animals, just imagine it
Chatting to a chimp in chimpanzee
Imagine talking to a tiger, chatting with a cheetah
What a neat achievement it would be
If we could talk to the animals, and learn their languages,
Maybe take an animal degree,
I'd study elephant and eagle, buffalo and beagle,
Aligator, guinea pig and flea
I would converse in polar bear and python
I would curse in fluent kangaroo
If people asked me, "Can you speak rhinoceros?"
I'd say, "Of course-eros! Can't you?"
If I conferred with our furry friends, man to animal,
Think of the amazing repartee
If I could walk with the animals, talk with the animals,
Grunt and squeak and squawk with the animals
And they could talk to me
—"Talk to the Animals", Doctor Dolittle
Cassandra: Are there any languages you don't speak?
Jacob: Well, my Urdu's a little rusty.
Logan: So, just in case I need an interpreter, how many languages do you speak?
Barek: Hmm... Well, Spanish, Yiddish, Italian, Polish, Creole. Some Russian, some Cantonese from working in Chinatown.
Barek: You?
Logan: I can say "Stop, police" and "What's your sign?" in fifteen different languages.
Barek: Hmm... Well, Spanish, Yiddish, Italian, Polish, Creole. Some Russian, some Cantonese from working in Chinatown.
Barek: You?
Logan: I can say "Stop, police" and "What's your sign?" in fifteen different languages.
— Law & Order: Criminal Intent, "Diamond Dogs"
