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* At the beginning of ''[[The Fifth Element]]'', Leeloo speaks only the Divine Language of the priests ("bada-boom"), but her perfect, genetically engineered self, is able to pick up the basics from a massive dose of future Internet. This also leads her to unfortunately absorb human war and hatred (and presumably a lot of porn).
** And of course, "please help" when she crashes into the hero. Where she learns it from READING it. Not quite sure how that works...
* In ''[[Explorers (Film)|Explorers]]'', the three kids meet aliens who pick up English from watching television. One alien did a better job than the other, so the latter communicates by speaking in TV catch phrases and clips from old black-and-white TV broadcasts.
* A possible variation in ''The 13th Warrior'' film: Ahmad ibn Fadlan doesn't speak Norse at the beginning, so he can communicate only via some shared Greek and Latin with one of them. Thus the audience doesn't get to understand them, either. However, in a montage of them travelling and talking around the campfire, more and more start to turn to English as Ahmad begins to understand more until eventually he surprises them at a campfire but insulting them in their own tongue. When asked how he learned their language, he just replies, "I listened."
* Mac, Teebo and Wiploc from ''[[Earth Girls Are Easy]]'' also learn English from watching TV.
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{{quote| '''Wayne''': Hey, where'd you learn to speak English?<br />
'''Cassandra''': College... and the ''[[Police Academy]]'' movies. }}
* [[E.T. the Extraterrestrial (Film)Extra-Terrestrial|ET the Extraterrestrial]] learned some basic words (y'know:"phone" and "home") from ''[[Sesame Street (TV)|Sesame Street]]'' in a fairly [[Justified Trope|well justified way]]: the show had basic words sounded out next to a picture of what it was talking about. It is a show directed at preschoolers, after all.
* In the live action ''[[Transformers (Filmfilm)|Transformers]]'' film, Optimus Prime tells Sam and Mikaela that they learned English from the Internet, with the exception of Bumblebee, who uses the radio to speak Junkion-style (and one of the soundbites he plays is the alien from ''[[Explorers (Film)|Explorers]]'').
 
 
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== Live Action TV ==
* In ''[[Skins]]'', Anwar tells the Russian girl he meets what he'd like to do to her and becomes embarrassed when she reveals she speaks English and learnt it from watching ''[[Friends]]''. Cue her saying "How you doin'?"
* In an episode of the TV show spinoff of ''[[Honey I Shrunk the Kids (TV series)|Honey I Shrunk the Kids]]'', a cat accelerated to human intelligence and body-swapped with a human learned English by watching television.
 
 
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== Western Animation ==
* The Junkions and their leader, Wreck-Gar, from ''[[The Transformers Generation 1]]'' learned to talk by watching TV and listening to radio to justify [[Aliens Speaking English]]. They tend to speak in "commercial" voice. Hilarious in that (A) they are voiced by [[Eric Idle]] (in [[The Movie]], anyway), and (B) the show is itself a 30-minute commercial.
{{quote| '''Hot Rod:''' Where'd you learn to talk like that? <br />
'''Wreck-Gar:''' T.V. We talk T.V. You talk some T.V.? <br />
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{{quote| '''Wreck-Gar:''' Yes, friends, act now, destroy Unicron! Kill the Grand Poobah! Eliminate even the toughest stains! }}
 
{{quote| '''Wreck-Gar:''' [[Jeopardy (TV)!|And the answer is]]: Unicron!}}
 
 
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