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* [[The Rime of the Ancient Mariner|The Ancient Mariner]] has a "strange power of speech" that allows him to tell his story to anyone who needs to hear it, whatever their language.
* The protagonist in [[Larry Niven]]'s "The Fourth profession" is given an [[Ingesting Knowledge|instant-learning pill]] by a drunk alien so that he can converse in the alien's language. It turns out the alien wasn't carrying any normal language pills, so it gave him one that allows him to speak any language (among other things).
* Captain Nemo from ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]''. In addition to his native tongue (which is unknown to the protagonists) he is fluent in French, English, German, Latin, and probably far more languages.
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