A linguist is called to investigate robots that seem to have created their own language.

An American man on a train in France encounters a peasant man and his family who try to speak to him despite the fact that French is not his first language.

Two young individuals on their honeymoon stop at a gas station in an Indian reservation to buy souvenirs and eat lunch. To the great embarrassment of his wife, the husband spends the entirety of their stop mocking the Native Americans who live there.

In Spain during the Francoist dictatorship, a girl's father insists that their family will never speak Spanish again in favor of Basque — a small act of political defiance that slowly changes their lives, until they can never go back.

An innocent introductory French course called la Muerte teaches vocabulary, by describing a typical farm until the farmer disappears.

A Laotian six-year-old, whose parents can't read English, struggles in school.