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* On ''[[iCarly]]'', especially in the second and third seasons, Freddy often bursts into [[Gratuitous Spanish]]. This implies that he is somewhat bilingual.

* ''[[Family Guy]]'': Brian is riding in the back of a truck and tries to talk to a Hispanic passenger, and is struggling with his junior-high Spanish:

Hispanic Guy: Que? }}

* In ''[[Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo]]'', Starfire becomes able to speak Japanese by kissing a local.

* Jenny from ''[[My Life as a Teenage Robot]]'' has several language discs that enable her to speak in foreign tongues. In one episode she loses her English disc while fighing a [[Kaiju]] in Japan and is stuck speaking Japanese for the rest of the episode.

* In ''[[The A-Team (film)|The a Team]]'', a mix-up with forged passports results in Murdoc needing to pass himself off as an African. His teammates, realizing the mix-up, figure their cover's blown and start scoping out emergency exits--then Murdock starts chatting with the Customs officer in Swahili. Later:

'''Murdock:''' You don't? }}

** This might be a [[Mythology Gag]] referring to a literal example in [[The A-Team|the original series]]. In one episode the A-Team went up against a [[The Triads and the Tongs|triad]] running a protection racket. At one point said triad left a message on a wall in Mandarin, which Murdock translated easily. Everyone stared at him, then he mentioned how one night he went to bed with a splitting headache and woke up able to speak Mandarin.