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May make the character into a bit of a [[Radio Mouth]]. It's also easier when [[Aliens Steal Cable]] which in turn makes it easier to handwave [[Aliens Speaking English]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* In one episode of ''[[Seven of Seven]]'', Nana is tutored in English by [[Funny Foreigner]] Melody Honey, who speaks Japanese with a bad [[Kansai Regional Accent|kansai accent]]. At the end of the episode, Nana asks her how she learned Japanese, and she mentions watching videos of [[Boke and Tsukkomi Routine|manzai comedy routines]].
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* [[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|ET the Extraterrestrial]] learned some basic words (y'know:"phone" and "home") from ''[[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 (film)|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]]'').
* In ''[[Better Off Dead]]'', Lane has something of a rivalry over impromptu street drag racing with two Asian brothers -- one of whom speaks no English, and the other of whom learned English by watching [[Howard Cosell]] on ''[[Wide World of Sports]]''.
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