Alizee's English?

[Future Raptor Ace]

Originally Posted by Azhiri

I've always admired that about her. She seems to take a lot of little steps to make her public image clean and perfect. Very neat and professional, it's rare in entertainers, especially nowadays.

Is it just me or is it a treat every time she speaks english? Her accent is too cute.

Lol no its not just you .... she is adorable indeed
Did not looked rehearsed to me, nevertheless she speaks English better than many of my crappy professors who have been here for a few years

[User22]

Originally Posted by Azhiri

Is it just me or is it a treat every time she speaks english? Her accent is too cute.

it's not just you...i specifically watch videos of her speaking english for pure enjoyment since her accent is

[Future Raptor Ace]

Originally Posted by Aaronius31

it's not just you...i specifically watch videos of her speaking english for pure enjoyment since her accent is

where is the like button?

[Scruffydog777]

Originally Posted by lefty12357

I believe Alizée probably reads English pretty good. If you think about it, she has had a lot more exposure to English throughout most of her life compared to the amount of exposure the average person here has had to French. She has listened to, and even sang a lot of English language music, for example. She has also had English classes.

I also believe Alizée likes to represent herself well in public and prefers not to speak or answer in English unless she has to, simply because she doesn't like to make mistakes or be embarrassed. It's been posted before, but the first 20 seconds of this video shows her using English rather than Spanish. She isn't perfect at it, but it shows she can put a few sentences together and get her point across. I don't think she learned and rehearsed this word for word, because if she had, knowing Alizée, she would have said it perfectly.

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That could very well be. She's probably smart enough to realize if at let's say the autograph session, she tries to converse in English and she makes some type of mistake, it will be all over Youtube the next day.

[Naft]

Originally Posted by Scruffydog777

That could very well be. She's probably smart enough to realize if at let's say the autograph session, she tries to converse in English and she makes some type of mistake, it will be all over Youtube the next day.

That, or the fact that she's proud of her heritage and culture, at least I seem be getting the signal that it is one of the reasons.

[Mon Maquis]

Originally Posted by Scruffydog777

That could very well be. She's probably smart enough to realize if at let's say the autograph session, she tries to converse in English and she makes some type of mistake, it will be all over Youtube the next day.

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.

[Deepwaters]

Originally Posted by Mon Maquis

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.

[User22]

Originally Posted by Mon Maquis

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.

VIRGIN MEGASTORE PARIS FOOTAGE

Alizee: "Where do you come from?"
RMJ: "Finland"
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Did she need a translator for that? No.

Therefore she can speak English. It's just a matter of how much she knows off the top of her head. Case closed!

And if she was willing to talk to RMJ (several times) over the years, I'm more than sure she would like to (and did) talk to Scruff.

[Scruffydog777]

Well as someone pointed out in another thread today, in such a situation as the autograph session, she might not want to engage in a conversation in Enlish with the fear that if she made some type of faux pas because she's not an expert at English, it would be all over Youtube the next day.

[DrSmith]

There is that stereotype that French people refuse to speak English. Maybe there's some truth in that.

<a href="http://sg.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080717062214AAJe8Pg" target="_blank"><b>Why do most french people refuse to speak english?</b></a>

I'm French so I can answer. A lot of French people feel ashamed to speak English, because even if they can understand, they don't feel comfortable enough to speak. Plus, a funny thing is that even if most foreigners like the French accent, our accent is considered as a bit ridiculous to ourselves. I can speak enough English to answer a question in the street and I still find my self ackward when I speak English, it makes me feel a little embarassed. If you go to Germany, Sweden, Norway ..., most people speak very well English because their language look like English. In Spain, Italy or France, we don't speak very well most of the time and always assume that no one could understand our English.