Alizee's English?

[User22]

Originally Posted by Jalen

Well, you can't really blame Her Grace and Beauty for the MCÉ songs since they were just odd translations that so happened to fit the music. I could be wrong, but I don't think she had any influence with those.

Nowadays... I'm sure she's taken some form of English lessons, but they don't seem to have gotten her very far...

Take 2001 Alizée
I can't stand how this lady pronounces her name

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and compare it to 2008 (I think?)





I've never understood why the hell she threw that in there... and can't stand it either, which is a shame because the rest of the song sounds amazing.

I can feel the left side of my brain swell whenever I hear that "DJ" stuff...

To me, it's like

"Allons enfants de la patrie
Le jour de gloire est arrivé
Red bull gives you wings!
Contre-nous de la tyrannie"

Nah man it defintiely has gotten better because that J'en Ai Marre concert shows her saying like 2 full sentences with no problems...

Hey Mr. DJ, How do I get on I wanna dance with my baby....haha

[wasabi622]

Really old(and of lower quality) footage of pre-Gourmandises Alizée singing in English!

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[Deepwaters]

Thanks for all that video footage, folks. As we can tell, Alizée's English is (or was then) not fluent, but probably sufficient to hold a limited conversation especially if someone also knows some French so as to end up in Franglish.

She's improved her English quite a bit over the years, partly I believe by coming here and reading our posts -- God help her. So if everyone would try to write grammatically and spell correctly, that would surely be a big help to her.

[User22]

Originally Posted by Deepwaters

She's improved her English quite a bit over the years, partly I believe by coming here and reading our posts -- God help her. So if everyone would try to write grammatically and spell correctly, that would surely be a big help to her.

Yes, keep the language down so she can have good cerebral hygiene. We need to keep our Lilly in tip-top shape for when she arrives so she doesn't lay down the F-bomb during a concert and blame it on AAm's members haahha

[wasabi622]

Originally Posted by aaroniu31

Yes, keep the language down so she can have good cerebral hygiene. We need to keep our Lilly in tip-top shape for when she arrives so she doesn't lay down the F-bomb during a concert and blame it on AAm's members haahha

Hehehee.. in that case, I'm going to start using "I love Tommy" as a way of saying "Welcome to my concert!"

Can you imagine that? The Goddess herself walks up on stage... microphone in hand... lights, camera... zoom up of her face... she opens her mouth and says "I. Love. Tommy."

I would die.

[User22]

Originally Posted by wasabi622

Hehehee.. in that case, I'm going to start using "I love Tommy" as a way of saying "Welcome to my concert!"

Can you imagine that? The Goddess herself walks up on stage... microphone in hand... lights, camera... zoom up of her face... she opens her mouth and says "I. Love. Tommy."

I would die.

I love Tommy??? What sort of future Lilly concert are you thinking of???

[Topaz]

Originally Posted by Deepwaters

She's improved her English quite a bit over the years, partly I believe by coming here and reading our posts -- God help her. So if everyone would try to write grammatically and spell correctly, that would surely be a big help to her.

"God help her".

That's really funny!

This is a great place to learn English 'slang'.

[Criss_pl]

Originally Posted by Topaz

This is a great place to learn English 'slang'.

Obviously

Alizée's English is probably on a bit higher level than French command of an average user here

English become such a popular language worldwide, and nowadays a lot of people learn it, so I suppose that Alizée can (easily) communicate in 'normal' English, or for us in Europe it's British, not American

[User22]

Originally Posted by Criss_pl

Obviously

Alizée's English is probably on a bit higher level than French command of an average user here

English become such a popular language worldwide, and nowadays a lot of people learn it, so I suppose that Alizée can (easily) communicate in 'normal' English, or for us in Europe it's British, not American

haha yep. But it did seem like when she explained that she couldn't sing in spanish in the vid above that she definetely knew the meaning of what she was saying. I don't think she was told the exact words to say she didn't know it. She def just whipped it out. Cuz who would tell her what to say?Mylene?haha jk

[jung_adore_ALIZEE]

Originally Posted by aaroniu31

What I'm trying to get to, is does anyone know if she can carry on small conversations in English?

Yes.

Regards,

Jung