Who taught baby mario how to talk?

[WagNak]

Just curious cuz Yoshi cant talk and Yoshi was the babysitter (then who paid Yoshi to babysit?) and I don't mean baby Mario talking I mean baby Mario growing up to be Mario and Mario knowing how to talk

 

[SiFi]

I'm guessing it was Pietro just before he went off to explore the world or whatever it was he did for most of the bros. lives.

 

[The RPG Gamer]

Because it would be boring if the Babies couldn't talk and they just wanted to make the games more interesting. This especially worked in Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time.

 

[Lee Chaolan]

Don't forget that after every Yoshi's Island game Baby Mario and Baby Luigi are sent back to their parents. They weren't raised by Yoshis. Partners in Time shows them hanging out with the Toads at the castle, who can talk, as well as Baby Peach who would be learning to talk from Toadstworth or something.

 

[fantanoice]

Nature beat nurture

 

[Ray Trace]

Hey there, Baby Luigi here, going to comment on this issue because you know, I'm here whenever you need to ask anything them Baby Mario Bros.

Anyway, yeah, as others have earlier pointed out, Baby Mario and Baby Luigi do not spend most of their time with the Yoshis. Only a fraction of the time was disrupted by Kamek and Baby Bowser, the rest are basically behind the scenes. In the Yoshi's Island games, Baby Mario and Baby Luigi were portrayed as younger, less sentient characters who are mostly unable to speak or think for themselves, the only exception being Yoshi Touch & Go, the only Yoshi game where Baby Mario receives his proper Charles Martinet voice and therefore speaks in that one.

I have to question why they speak in Italian accents though, from a narrative standpoint and not because they're younger versions of Mario and Luigi. It either means they're bilingual in this age (unlikely scenario) or they were raised with peers who also had Italian accents (more likely scenario) as kids adopt accents of their peers rather than their parents, which begs the question, is Mushroom Kingdom have a large embedded Italian culture or what?

Even if Baby Mario and Baby Luigi don't spend time with English-speaking characters, language will come to them innately, just not under English regardless. It's just what humans are, humans are wired towards language as they're adapted to it.

 

[Jigglypurin]

It was Joshy himself. Super Mario 64, anybody?

 

[Tyrell Badd]

 

[Mister Wu]

I have to question why they speak in Italian accents though, from a narrative standpoint and not because they're younger versions of Mario and Luigi. It either means they're bilingual in this age (unlikely scenario) or they were raised with peers who also had Italian accents (more likely scenario) as kids adopt accents of their peers rather than their parents, which begs the question, is Mushroom Kingdom have a large embedded Italian culture or what?

Why did I correct this, it was obviosuly the ultimate truth and I treated it like trolling.

the only officially Italian place is Isle Delfino, as far as I know, so it would be quite interesting to know. Maybe the mother came from there, hence "Mamma Mia"?

Just curious cuz Yoshi cant talk

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