Simon from Durarara!! who seems to only speak broken sushi sales pitches in Japanese yet has rather insightful conversations in Russian.However, she speaks Japanese in a stereotypical "Chinese person speaking Japanese badly" manner, which is translated similarly to Shampoo's speech in the above example. She also occasionally speaks in her native Chinese, at which she comes off as perfectly concise. Kuu Fei from Negima! Magister Negi Magi, despite her grades is not stupid her physical/kinetic ability sits at a genius level.
Shenhua from Black Lagoon is Taiwanese and presumably speaks fluent Chinese, but her English (and Japanese, in the original) is utterly dreadful both in grammar and pronunciation, to the point where Revy (who is Chinese-American) nicknames her "Chinglish." It's not a good idea to take her poor language skills for stupidity, unless you want to be knifed to death. In the Chinese translations of the series, her Hulk Speak Verbal Tic is dropped and instead she speaks in an amusingly archaic and excessively formal manner. Although it's hard to say, as Shampoo only speaks Chinese during the flashback to her and Ranma's first meeting at her village, she seems to be much better at speaking Chinese by comparison. In Ranma ½, Shampoo speaks Japanese (or "English") very badly, resulting in a Hulk Speak Verbal Tic. Sister Trope to Graceful in Their Element. Compare Elective Broken Language (which can also be used for Obfuscating Stupidity), Switch to English, Worthless Foreign Degree, Faux Fluency. Not solely restricted to a foreigner attempting to speak English.Ī specific subversion of You No Take Candle, and can sometimes brush up against "Blind Idiot" Translation when played for laughs.Ĭan be used to hide the Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass, and may be intentionally used for Obfuscating Stupidity. Sometimes it's used in conjunction with a phrasebook, where the subject uses said book poorly and winds up spitting out nonsense or using extremely broken English. Were you to hear him in his Native tongue, you'd find him rather insightful, eloquent, and poetic. There's a guy who doesn't speak very well at all! He must be stupid!Įxcept he's not, he's really a rather intelligent chap who simply hasn't learned the local tongue. 
Diana Goodman, commenting on an all-but-incoherent forum post in Baby's Named a Bad, Bad Thing
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