Pourriez vous appeler le concierge, semblez là être une grenouille dans mon bidet.

Pourriez-vous appeler le concierge, il semble y avoir une grenouille dans ma toilette. Or something.

Some high school students, including this editor, take French as a foreign language in American high schools to take advantage of this trope. It works as long as the girl in question doesn't also know French and isn't GenreSavvy.

Some {{Jerkass}}es think that this trope extends to ''French'' women. You do not want to know how many guys have been shot down using the chorus of a certain song as a pick-up line.

Especially since a song about a prostitute probably doesn't make for the best pick-up lines anyway.

Sont des mots qui vont très bien ensemble, Très bien ensemble.

This editor had a high-school friend who could subvert this trope by reciting nonsense (including "I would like a cup of hot chocolate") sweetly in ''German''.

This editor frequently says in German in place of swearing: "Oh my god, god in heaven, my hamburger is stupid, yes my leader, that is not my hamburger." And this editor is ''not'' German. <-- Obviously, 'cause it doesn't make sense.

''This'' editor has been known to use "Ach, lieber Gott im Himmel" (Oh, dear God in Heaven) in place of some F-bombs. Further, since he started doing college work, he has also butchered Arabic and German words to produce many desired effects.

This troper and his highschool friends, one of whom plays in a rock band, joked that German is the best language for making metal songs as it makes anything sound badass and agressive. We also frequently used the phrase "Ich haben ein Sauerkraut in mich Lederhosen".

Which is arguably the entire reason for Rammstein's existence :P

Subverted in the fact this troper can turn his fiancée's knees to jelly by growling Rammstein lyrics at her. This may or may not be due to her crush on Till Lindemann, however.

Probably not the only woman you could do that to, you know... this troper managed to develop a strange fondness to the German-language version of the Our Father that's huskily recited in a certain E Nomine song. Um...

In MEINE Lederhosen.

MEINEN Lederhosen. Nope... Meine's the right word for it.

Ich habe Sauerkraut in meinen Lederhosen. Now no more discussing.

One pair of pants is singular in German. It's "Ich habe Sauerkraut in meiner Lederhose."

You can say both "in meiner Hose" and "in meinen Hosen". Both is perfectly fine.

This troper had a friend who knew bits and pieces of Armenian, and would frequently shout things like "Your cow is upon my table!" as insults.

And ''this'' editor knew a guy who took it all one step further and would say horrible, horrible things ("I'll kill you and bury your body under my garage") to girls in French, which they would assume was something romantic. He was never busted, though one would imagine that the comedy potential of him actually using it on another French speaker would be immense.

''This'' editor went to college with an actual Frenchman, who demonstrated the technique to her using words that, he said, translated as "Your ears are enormous, but at least they hide your face."

''This'' editor has discovered that Polish can serve the role traditionally associated with French ''and'' the role traditionally associated with German with equal ease.

And ''this'' editor has made a habit of exemplifying this trope with the phrase "J'ai un poisson dans mon pantalon", a phrase which sounds very romantic, and means, literally, "I have a fish in my pants."

Interesting coincidence being that, in ''this'' editor's high school, the phrase of choice was "J'ai beaucoup de chats dans mon pantalon" (he believes; his friends speak French, he doesn't), which means "I have a lot of cats in my pants."

This troper's best friend once needed a convientent phrase in French for an RP we were doing. She ended up with "J'ai le poisson dans mes yeux", which she now occasionally yells, though since I've started taking German she's replaced it with "Ich habe Fisch in meinen Augen".

She has a fish in her eyes?

''This'' '''''troper's''''' mother once told how a student somehow got himself into the French house in university without speaking any French. When some other students pointed this out, he turned to them and said "Il y a un pomplemousse sur l'autobus". Apparently the students believed him and didn't speak enough French to realize what he said ("There is a grapefruit on the bus").

The same troper's dad (who is perfectly bilingual between French and English) loves to joke about screwing with peoples' heads and saying the most ridiculous stuff in French, under the guise of being suave or innocent. His favourite was in university when he convinced several of his friends "mange le merde" was "bless you" in French.

This troper is perpetually disappointed by how poorly this trope works in Canada.

Depends on where you are and who you're talking to; in this troper's experience, most kids lose interest in French long before they finish the required classes, and usually drop it as soon as they can. If you tried talking to them in French, they may be suspicious, but that doesn't mean they'll understand it.

StephenHawking claims to have chosen an American-accented speech synthesizer for its effect on women. He also recommends Scandinavian.

ThisTroper's girlfriend rarely uses her native Portuguese--but oh, when she does...

Apparently, some silly convention-goers in the same suite as this troper believed that nothing Russian could possibly be sexy. Followed by ten minutes of agitated, disturbingly sultry babbling in what little of the language they knew mixed with threats in a terrible accent imitation. These were not terribly attractive men- and there were still girls lining up to sit at their table afterward. This troper (of the Russian accent fetish) included. Like German accents, you sound so much more authoritative...

This Troper's father once had a bar in Montreal buying him drinks because he demonstrated the only French he knew-- "Je suis un crayon rouge." ... "I am a red pencil."

A few years ago, this troper attempted to make studying French more interesting by translating ''Star Trekkin''. She still can't get the chorus to scan properly. ''Danny Boy'' in Klingon, however, is actually quite moving...

This troper has a friends who was born in Germany, and once had him start speaking German to some girls from another school. She's not entirely sure what he said, but the immediate reaction was 'Wow, that's sexy.'

This troper agrees that there's something very oddly sensual about German--not just the language, but the accent as well. However, she blames these feelings on Stupid Sexy Sasha Nein.

Oh God same with this Troper. There is something oddly sexy about German. But, I blame my case on that damn sexy Medic.

This troper went to France on a student exchange trip. I met some guy friends. This trope worked like a charm on me until I started getting used to everyone speaking French. It also worked the other way: a lot of people in my classes were impressed and almost turned on when I spoke English.

This troper is nineteen years old and is not allowed to cuss in front of her parents....Except in French. She also has a habit of just saying random French things just to talk.

When people are impressed that this troper is learning Japanese, he impresses them further by saying the longest sentence he knows: "Tsugi no kado o hidari e magatte kudasai". (This means "Please turn left at the next corner".)

This troper has a friend who has a very, very nasally speaking voice that verges on the ridiculous, but he still manages to sound sexy when speaking French.

I believe the everything sounds sexier in french, Japanese can do a lot, and everything sounds funnier in German. German's only funnier when you do it in the sterotypical nazi way though. Or maybe the Arnold way.

This Troper took four years of High School French and still can't hold a conversation in it but I do remember the first sentence I was taught. Ou est Monique. This is a standard in French education, or so I hear. One of these days I'm going to go to France and find this Monique chick and slap her about the head and shoulders yelling "WHERE THE ''FUCK'' HAVE YOU BEEN?!? ''MILLIONS'' OF FRENCH STUDENTS HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR YOU ''FOR YEARS''!"

This French troper finds it extremely amusing, since the first English sentence he was taught was "Where is Brian?" (the correct answer to that, by the way, was "Brian is in the kitchen")

Ouwere iz mayi homme-brella?

This troper once got asked out by a guy saying, "Yo soy un bestio sensual." Note to men: Asking out girls in the ''same Spanish class as you''--I.E., ones who have a high probability of understanding what you're saying--with GratuitousSpanish phrases is ''probably not a good idea.'' She turned him down. Strongly.

And it should have been "Yo soy una bestia sensual" too.

No, he is male, so it's "un bestio sensual".

Wrong, because "Bestia" is a feminine noun, so it can't be said on masculine form.

Subversion: ''Avec un bon accent Québecois, la langue française devient BEN moins sexy. Mautadis tabarnaque esti de calisse de criss.'' Long story short: It's only sexy in ''actual'' European French, not Quebequer French. Being one himself, this troper can only bow his head in shame.

This other troper from Québec can only agree with this as he thinks French sounds annoying insted of sexy. French like in France sounds snobbish, French in Québec sounds like it got beaten by baseball bats with rusted nails. He do think, however, the southern accent in english sexy. Go figure.

Haitian French sounds like someone is permanently inflicted with phlegm. Ech.

This English girl with a Québecois (Quebecker? I'm still not sure) boyfriend would have to agree, as much as she loves him. In a possible subversion, according to him, everything everything native English speakers say in French is sexier. Although if he tells her one more time that she has a "charmant accent anglais" when she speaks French to him, she might just punch him in the face.

This troper had the same reverse-EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench experience with a Lyonnais guy she dated. He loved it when she would speak English to him...random bits of English, provided he couldn't understand it, got him hot. This troper recalls one time he was lying in her bed and enjoined her, "Parle-moi anglais! Dis n'importe quoi!" To which she replied, "Uh, okay...I don't know what you want me to say, but here I am, I'm speaking English..." He sighed in rapture, "Mmmmmm oui oui oui je ne comprends rien!"

This troper speaks Parisian French. One of his friends speaks Canadian French. Both made a contest of who could hook up faster. Of course, the one who spoke Parisian got the girl faster.

Subverted: One of this troper's best friends interjects French phrases into his speech all the time. However, he never says them in a French accent, but in the voice of a cheerful and somewhat bewildered Englishman, which girls find hilariously funny rather than sexy. It's not helped by the fact that his eyes go really wide and his ears twitch whenever he does this.

This troper finds that if you say something in French in a creepy tone of voice, it sounds far creepier than it would be in creepy English.

This troper got reminded of this trope in a discussion of pick-up lines, when he mentioned that everything that comes out of a French boy's mouth qualifies as one. Everyone else immediately agreed that, well, EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench (also Russian, apparently). I ''meant'' that every other guy I met in France was a horny bastard . . .

Rider}} This Troper can attest that the French girls however subvert this, they got so tired of their own countrymen, they find everything spoken in any language BUT French, then when they speak French, it's played straight again.

You should hear Arabic; it actually rather sounds like French combined with Russian, and...some other languages. Farsi moreso!

I knew a girl in high school who fit this to a T. My french accent was pretty much perfect (a side effect of being the French Teacher's son), and this girl would ask me to say stuff in French. "Montre-moi le poisson de ton frere Raoul" once caused her knees to buckle slightly.

*googles*... "Show me the fish of your brother Raoul"? O_o;

Go read "DaveBarry's only travel guide you'll ever need". You'll be a better person for it.

Hilariously subverted by a guy this troper knows. He would sometimes talk to his girlfriend in a sexy voice as if he were telling her romantic things. However what he was saying were quotes from "Jeanny" (by Falco), a song about the abduction of a seventeen year old girl. "Sie kommen! Sie kommen dich zu holen. Sie werden dich nicht finden. Niemand wird dich finden, Du bist bei mir!" sounds really sexy when spoken in a husky voice (and is really creepy when you realize what it means).

This troper's gay best friend would do this to her all the time, only using Spanish. Spanish really is an intensely sexy language, and it didn't help that he is easily one of the most attractive men she's ever met. It drove me freaking crazy (and yet somehow I enjoyed it...).

This French troper is commanded every time he reveals this to essentially "Turn me on in French." It's gotten to the point that he once resorted to "Please shove a dirty hamster down your throat." Unfortunately, she did know the word for hamster so it didn't work.

I do believe this is an example of {{Crowning Moment of Awesome}}.

This bilingual Canadian troper averts this trope in particular, but she loves confusing her Anglo friends by randomly switching to French if they prompt her.

This bilingual troper speaks Brazilian Portuguese as her first language, but when she has to speak English, people that can't do so get surprised by how awesome and "accurate" it sounds. Did I mention that my accent is terrible and mangled? Yeah...

Possible subversion: A large proportion of French men are complete perverts. "Putaine! Suce ma bite, hein?!" and other such wonderful phrases sound less than poetic. Not to mention on this troper's second day in France, a random man started stroking her hair at a pedestrian crossing and crooned how lovely her hair was and how sweet she smelled, and utterly terrified her. NOT everything is sexier in French, unfortunately :(

That reminds this Belgian male troper of a similar experience on the train, unfortunately involving a middle aged, middle eastern guy who was obsessed with my hair, to the point of rubbing through it and running away. If I remember correctly he was also speaking french.

"Lèche mes couilles!" Ew. Also, "Vous m'avez repoussé mais je t'aiiiiime!"

This troper will make mad monkey love to the first person who comes up to her and says something sweet and romantic in Interlingua.

*Sweetly* Interlingua se ha distachate ab le movimento pro le disveloppamento e le introduction de un lingua universal pro tote le humanitate. Where do you live?

This troper finds Latin (''not'' Church Latin) hopelessly sexy.

This troper, being cursed with bilingual-ism, and thus actually UNDERSTANDS the lyrics to the songs he hears, is often asked to translate English songs into French by his fellow students. Let me tell you, singing "Under my Umbrella" in French DOES NOT sound anything other than retarded: "En d'ssous d'mon parapluie, uie, uie, uie, eh, eh, eh, eh, oh, oh, oh, oh..."

While "ella, ella, ella,..." is so much more clever? I'd say you got the feel of it spot on.

Et l'eau, c'est l'heure. (is this correct?)

"And water, it's time". What was it you were trying to say?

This troper's mother once tested this trope in college. She and a friend got a group of english-speakers together, and she started complimenting them in German, while her friend said the most horrible things she could think of in French. Needless to say, the group got it backwards.

This troper and her friend routinely invoke this trope as a joke, mock-flirting with such romantic phrases as "excuse me, but I think my cat just peed on your foot" and "you smell funny, please go away and take that annoying small child with you." No one ever has any clue what we're saying, which makes it even funnier when someone actually ''does.''

While he knows some French and thus the sound of it is normal to him, this Australian troper is very prone to falling victim to this trope - especially where European accents in English are concerned. He was intrigued in a good way by a woman speaking with an Estonian accent in English. He has heard spoken Estonian and finds it a pretty language, but he is not sure if he would actually be turned on by someone speaking it to him. It would depend on how attractive the speaker was.

Subverted, in that I personally find that Everything Sounds More Annoying In French.

This troper is a Brazilian translator that likes Italian women speaking English. Oh, to meet one.

{{Ryumaru}}: I have a saying: Everything sounds sexy in French, like a death threat in German, and like something out of a {{Shonen}} anime in Japanese. I learned Japanese for this reason. Well, and to insult people without them knowing....

This troper learned how sexy the German language is when two German exchange students sat in front of him in class.

This troper agrees that the German language is extremely sexy. Much more so than French.

This Tropette ''definitely'' agrees. The German language also has the bonus of sounding deliciously evil.

And this troper is the opinion these tropers above obviously ''never heard'' Saxon or Hesse...

This troper, who is almost completely fluent in French, ''digs'' completely the sexiness of Romanian.

This Romanian troper has played this trope straight,in that he had/has the biggest crush on the girl in his high school class who spoke French most fluently and sorta inverted in that he almost made some progress with her by being the best in English class,another miscellaneous success was in making a random female student who was passing interested by talking in English about the evolution of graphics in Final Fantasy.

This troper likes to bring out the only french phrase he knows ("Je suis un funky homme" from the Marmaduke duke song of the same name.) from time to time in an attempt to impress the women folk. Subverted in the only time it actually worked the target lady happned to be a fan of the band and recognised the name.

To this troper, everything sounds sexier in Arabic. And where DID the place for languages other than French under this trope go? I thought they were there the last time I checked, and now we're just back to French examples. So I have to be the odd one out here with Arabic.

Honey, the only language I listen to Maleficent in is Arabic.

I freaking love Arabic. It's like Russian and French combined, with another language I can't quite place with it. However, Farsi is even ''more'' awesome.

This troper tends to have this effect on both English- and Spanish-speakers, because he speaks Castilian Spanish-a ''vosotros'' here and a ''ceceo'' there is apparently quite exotic. Or Biblical.

Unless you say "vosotros" to a close friend who understands it, then they'll wonder why the formality...

This troper got turned on when her then-friend-now-boyfriend spoke to her in French.

YMMV on this one. This troper personally thinks that French sounds like it's being run through a fish pulverizer and made into imitation crab meat.

This Troper found John Cho infinitely sexier when she found a clip of him speaking Korean. Same with when she found out that Bradley Cooper speaks French fluently. What can I say? Bilingualism is sexy.

Step 1: Go up to someone you want to mock (make sure they are ''not'' language-savvy!) Step 2: Say "Va te faire foutre!" Step 3: Look it up afterwards and hope they never find out.

This troper's boyfriend's reaction to LittleKuriboh's all-French redub of the first episode of YuGiOh Abridged: "Everything just sounds so ''dirty!''"

I, personally, can't really stand the French redub. It sounds less like people speaking French and more like first-year Americans trying to speak French without attempting an accent. I.e., horrible.

This Troper grew up on three different Filipino dialects, then learned English, and then Spanish. Living in the Midwest, women have told him that any of the other languages he speaks come off as hotter than English. This troper happens to find the English language the most fun language in terms of wordplay.

English is rather awesome, since it's a mish-mash of several languages.

I find Parisian French to be pretty, but not necessarily sexy. I've yet to hear Quebecan, so I have no idea about that yet. Haitian? Good ''God'' no. Permanent congestion/phlegm much? Arabic I find awesome, because it sounds, to me, like Russian and French combined. Farsi is even ''cooler'' because although it has the same alphabet as Arabic it's just...better. I suppose it also has a bit of Hindi or Japanese (was tempted to write "japonais" there; oh French, how you have warped me) flavor to it. Finnish and Latin though, leave me stumped. Have you ''seen'' the Finnish translations?! There's no cognates or false cognates, just "how the hell did you get this word from ''this'' word?!"; Latin is just completely unpronounceable to me.

No languages make me melt, really. Especially since I tend to meld several languages at once. "Salaam! Gracias, madame! " *facepalm*

I also have to think when writing the word "Russian"; I always try to write "russki" even though that actually refers to someone ''from'' Russia, and not the language. Plus I think it might be an insult as well.

Actually, you're not far off. The way you say "Russian" in Russian is "russkij yazyk," (Cyrillic: русский язык), "Russian language."

This troper has been assured by several people that when she speaks Spanish, she sounds damn sexy. No matter what I'm saying, apparently. Even this troper's Colombian lab partner says that this troper can make something as mundane as "Tengo un perro negro" sound orgasm-inducing.

There are two reasons I took GCSE French. Swearing in school and getting away with it (just stay away from French teachers), and sounding damn sexy. I could say one of two things to sound god-damn gorgeous, "vos yeux brillent à la lumière d'un millier de lunes" or "Tabernac! Choleque de merde!" The first means "Your eyes glisten with the light of a thousand moons" the second, well, here's the link. http://www.insults.net/html/swear/french.html It's near the bottom.

This troper had been know to get ladies by reciting Disney Villain Songs in every language from French to Zulu.

This troper had always hated her first name. She goes by her middle name to all friends and colleagues. Recently, she was introduced to a guy from Belgium, who speaks with a heavy french accent. She was introduced to him by her first name. Guess who totally loves her first name now.

Discussed in this Troper's Sociology class at Montana Tech. We decided the French are sexy, the Germans are manly, TrueArt is always foreign, Greenlandics will survive the apocalypse and Libya's flag sucks. This is how off topic we get every. single. day.

This troper personally thinks Everything Sounds Cuter In Japanese.

I have a real weakness for Scottish accents, especially if the speaker is from Edinburgh. (Though I've heard Glaswegians who speak in a very... *ahem* kind of way.) I've also found that Northern Irish speakers have lovely accents. If you're from Birmingham, Manchester, Brighton, Southampton, or London, England, whoa baby. Most Liverpudlians don't sound sexy to me, but the late, great John Peel managed to have THE sexiest accent in ALL of radio-dom and he was from there. My guy sports an interestingly vague U.S. East Coast accent with some special Pittsburgh influences and I could listen to him all day and night. He says my vague U.S. Southern/Texan drawl sounds appealing to him and I've heard about others having a fixation on that too, but I've yet to meet someone with a ''special'' interest in Mexican-style Spanish accents, which is the accent I (naturally) use when speaking Spanish. Shame, really. A waste of four years of studying the language, really. Should've gone for Italian. It's darn near close to Spanish anyway.

This troper had a lover who adored hearing her speak French even though he had no idea what she was saying. When her bedroom-specific vocabulary ran low, she started throwing in phrases like "I support a national welfare state" and "cover me in leaves".

In Spain, being italian (or argentinian, or pretending to be one of them) will make women's interest in you skyrocket. In fact, if you speak italian correctly your chances of getting laid increase a 5000%. Don't ask me why the hell does it work, but it does. Even more, if you speak italian and play the guitar there is no chance in hell that you do not get laid.

Apparently, Everything Is Cuter in Vaguely Lancashire English. (I also have a very nice French accent.) For an example of my voice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybr6SO3q97k . People have told me how cute my voice is. It's really not, though...

To this troper everything sounds sexier in Serbian. Dear god, Serbian...This song alone was enough to give her a MAJOR language kink. Just...I'll be in my bunk.