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It seems to me that he just landed and he already knew it some how....

Or did his Earth parents teach him?

I assume he learned from his Earth parents. Is there any evidence to suggest otherwise?

Don't you guys know everybody speaks english in comic book universe. Every alien somehow knows english. I guess it would be too far a stretch for people to make stories where aliens didn't know our language. Personally I believe it would be more believable if aliens didn't know our language and conflicts stemmed from things that are lost in translation.

Superman is believable though because he was raised on earth and his intake of knowledge was in english. Then again though from what we've been shown kryptonians somehow already spoke english (sigh). In this approaches defence though it would make stories hard to piece together if you had no idea what the other party was saying. Then again though I could see someone like Reed creating a babble fish type instrument.

Originally posted by razor4life
Personally I believe it would be more believable if aliens didn't know our language and conflicts stemmed from things that are lost in translation.

Good point. That could work very well, and be thoroughly believable. That was, after all, one of the key causes for conflict with the Native Americans and a similar scenario could work really well in comics...

It would be hard to come up a different language for each alien race that is made though wouldn't it?

Originally posted by steverules
It would be hard to come up a different language for each alien race that is made though wouldn't it?

It would also be entirely unnecessary.

Originally posted by steverules
It would be hard to come up a different language for each alien race that is made though wouldn't it?

So everyone has the same idea as Star Trek, that everyone speaks English. Even though we see at times Superman speaking his native tongue.

He cane to Earth as a baby . . . pretty mvch like a human child . . .

What an interesting, well-thought question/thread.

It's not interesting at all considering he came to Earth as a baby and learned English like every one else. Superman learned to speak Kryptonian as in adult.

What I would like to know is how can he speak kryptonian if no one taught him how to speak it

^ good question. how did he learn kryptonian? who taught him?

Originally posted by J.P Jaeh_Poole
^ good question. how did he learn kryptonian? who taught him?
I thought he studied it at his Fortress Of Solitude; just like he learned everything he knows about Krypton's culture.

Originally posted by roughrider
I thought he studied it at his Fortress Of Solitude; just like he learned everything he knows about Krypton's culture.

He may have done

So English is his native tongue and he learnt kryptonian later?

Originally posted by Endrict Nuul
So English is his native tongue and he learnt kryptonian later?

Yeah Pretty much

I gotta good one for ya'll

In Superman Red Son.

Was Superman speaking Russian or English?

He was speaking bad/poor Russian.

Originally posted by Endrict Nuul
He was speaking bad/poor Russian.

English is an universal language , so i no wonder why aliens may speak it :P One day all aliens will speak Russian

He learned it the same way any other kid learns a language - by hearing his parents (the Kents) speak it

Originally posted by Endrict Nuul
It seems to me that he just landed and he already knew it some how....

Or did his Earth parents teach him?

I'm gonna say Ma and Pa Kent taught toddler Supes how to speak Enlgish?

Im pretty sure John and Martha spoke fluent English.

To the point about other aliens knowing the language... they are higher life forms :P

Originally posted by marwash22
Im pretty sure John and Martha spoke fluent English.

To the point about other aliens knowing the language... they are higher life forms :P Did you read the thread? If you were sent to another planet as a baby you would be speaking there alien language and you would have learned the same way you learned English. What is so hard to understand?

Originally posted by Endrict Nuul
It seems to me that he just landed and he already knew it some how....

Or did his Earth parents teach him?

According the the well known orgins of Superman, he arrived on earth as an infant and was raised by the Kents....who spoke English. That and he went to school. He learned English the same way you did.

Originally posted by Endrict Nuul
It seems to me that he just landed and he already knew it some how....

Or did his Earth parents teach him?

Clark Kent's first language is English. What else could it be if he had absolutely no exposure to anything else.

Unless they've wiped this out of continuity he learnt Kryptonian from the Eradicator given to him by the Cleric. The Eradicator built the fortress and eventually became a humanoid Superman itself.