Basic Trope: A character learned a language via consuming media in that language.
- Straight: Aerith, a native Japanese speaker, learned English by watching Legends Of Troperia in English.
- Exaggerated: Aerith learned English, French, German, Chinese, and Spanish just by watching Little Alice In Troperland in those languages.
- Downplayed: Aerith was also taking English lessons, but she learned some words from Legends Of Troperia.
- Justified: Legends of Troperia was a word comprehension show in the coat of an adventure show.
- Inverted: ???
- Subverted: Aerith seems to have learned English off of TV, but it turns out she had been taking English lessons since she was a kid.
- Double Subverted: She didn’t actually learn much from the lessons, she still got most of it off of TV.
- Parodied: After watching one episode of Legends Of Troperia, Aerith’s English rivals that of Bob, the 12th-grade honors English teacher at the most prestigious school in Tropesville.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: No one on the show learned a language from TV.
- Enforced:
- The producers need an excuse for why a Japanese girl can speak fluent English. This was just the easiest excuse.
- The producers use it to explain why Aerith speaks a dialect all her own.
- Lampshaded: “Wow, Aerith’s English is really good for someone who’s never taken an English lesson.”
- Invoked: Nadeshiko, Aerith’s mom, made her watch English cartoons as a kid to be exposed to the language at a young age.
- Exploited: Humare-sensei makes her lessons supplemental to Tales of Troperia, greatly reducing her workload and keeping the kids engaged.
- Defied: Aerith decides to take actual English lessons instead of learning from TV.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: “How is her English that good?” “She’s been watching Voltron since she was a kid.”
- Implied: When questioned her astounding English, Aerith just points to the TV currently playing Legends Of Troperia.
- Deconstructed:
- Aerith Speaks in Shout-Outs and doesn’t always know exactly what she’s saying. This results in her accidentally insulting her boss and getting fired.
- What the Hell Is That Accent?
- Reconstructed:
- Aerith resolves to learn exactly what she’s saying from then on.
- Aerith's accent makes her easily identifiable.
- Head back to the main page here! I learned how to say that from reading This Very Wiki!
