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{{trope}}
{{quote|Oh, you speak English! Good! (In German) [[Painting the Fourth Wall|You can turn off]] [[Fun with Subtitles|the subtitles now.]]
|'''German Policeman,''' ''[[The Man With Two Brains]]''}}
Characters begin speaking in a language that is not English<ref>or the language that the majority of the work is in, with which the intended audience would be most familiar</ref> but find an excuse to switch to English so that the audience doesn't have to read too many of those pesky subtitles.
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{{examples}}
▲== [[Fan Fiction]] ==
* In [[The Teraverse]] tale ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-32283/ Over The Line]'', most of the first eleven chapters involve a police investigation taking place in Mexico, narrated in Spanish (with [[Translation Convention]] in play) by the lead detective. At the end of that chapter, the young lady being interrogated, {{spoiler|Teraverse superheroine Sister Marie,}} finally gives up on her own high-school Spanish and initiates a switch to English, and at the same time, explicitly declares her American citizenship and requests an advocate from the United States government.
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[[Category:Switch to English]]
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