[2008-11-04] Alizée in NEW YORK right now!

[Deepwaters]

Originally Posted by Ruroshen

Maybe we should kick off a forum section titled 'Apprendre l'anglais', and see if she bites?

We could do that with general lessons. She has never posted to a fan site as herself, though, and to do it in disguise might be a bit too much of a giveaway. Still, there's nothing to stop her from browsing.

Actually, I doubt that her limited English is the reason why she doesn't try to break into the U.S. market. Her Spanish is no better, but she went to Mexico. She has almost no Russian at all, but she went to Moscow. She's been to Italy and Germany, but she doesn't know Italian or German except a few words. She went to Japan, and AFAIK she knows no Japanese.

There is probably another reason, and the best suggestion I have seen is that she wants to preserve the U.S. as a place she can come and visit and have fun without being deluged by huge numbers of fans, papparazzi, etc. Success here would be enormously lucrative, but perhaps not worth that price.

But mastering a foreign language is worthwhile for its own sake. I see nothing wrong with people whose command of English is excellent offering to help her out, as a friendly gesture.