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Old 06-30-2011, 02:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Mon Maquis View Post
Don't let Alizee fool you, she speaks English and if she did not speak it to you, then she must of not wanted to communicate with you.
She knows some English, but she's not fluent. I can tell that from her attempts with it in concert and from her efforts at written English. She makes a fair number of mistakes, although I generally know what she means. Also, as I said earlier, even people who can speak or write a foreign language may have trouble following it when it's spoken. My best guess about what happened at the autograph session is that Scruffy was speaking too quickly for her to be sure about understanding what he said. His American accent may also not have helped matters. I'm pretty sure that French people who study English in school learn the language as spoken in the UK.

And since she did communicate with us (in French), that last is clearly not the case.
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