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Post by an on Aug 17, 2011 18:32:44 GMT -5
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Post by maxima25 on Aug 17, 2011 21:04:19 GMT -5
What an idiot answer she gives to why she converted!! What does it have to do that she has catholic relatives and that she wants to spend her life in Monaco? ???God, she´s dumb. Je vais pratiquer? ahhaha And what has she been doing all these years?? 5 years in Monaco and still doesn' t get the French takes the accent at the end. It´s a lost case.
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Post by cm7007 on Aug 17, 2011 21:22:29 GMT -5
I couldn't even listen to the whole interview. God she is soooo low class! The way she moves her head when she talks is just oh, so common! She has no poise, no polish and that accent! Then listening to him - I just want to go hide from embarrassment! It has been said you can't pull a person up to your level - if you try, they will only drag you down to theirs. I've always found this to be true. Albert is very quickly going down, down, down!
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Post by emmeline on Aug 17, 2011 22:06:27 GMT -5
Hahha, poor loonies...i will practic with my friends still french? or what? what did she try to say? What a dumb. I couldn't even listen either the whole interview. I wanted to listen to her french but i couldn't.
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Post by MyAdia on Aug 18, 2011 8:48:27 GMT -5
Well, her French is even worse than you imagine since for all these interviews the questions for Charlene had to be submitted in advance - and in English. So, whatever Charlene stated in French - she practiced it! The sugar loonies don't know this because they don't read information about Charlene and this relationship - they only look at photos.
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Post by MyAdia on Aug 18, 2011 8:54:10 GMT -5
I couldn't even listen to the whole interview. God she is soooo low class! The way she moves her head when she talks is just oh, so common! She has no poise, no polish and that accent! Then listening to him - I just want to go hide from embarrassment! It has been said you can't pull a person up to your level - if you try, they will only drag you down to theirs. I've always found this to be true. Albert is very quickly going down, down, down! OMG, CM, I couldn't watch the entire interview either - for the exact same reason. So, I didn't get to the part where she speaks French. What in the hell happened to people in Monaco? Is everyone in Monaco stark raving mad or are they all smoking crack? Can't they see just how low class and trashy Charlene not only looks, but also speaks and carry herself? I cringed just watching her for a few seconds. It is so embarrassing, but these people aren't embarrassed. They have made this woman the flagship of their country - pure trash is what Monaco will be known as. Actually, as the Financial Times state Monaco is vulgarity masquerading as class - and that is exactly what Charlene is - vulgar - it is so obvious with anyone with more than 3 brain cells!
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Post by hibou on Aug 18, 2011 9:06:33 GMT -5
Well where to begin? Let's see, when she first arrived in Monaco and had the freedom to walk around and go shopping etc, that was the time to practice French before people actually knew her as the girlfriend or "official companion". People there would have been very happy to correct her pronunciation. I don't so much mind the horrific accent as the fact that the reality is that she can't speak it at all. If she was able to put a sentence together and sound flowing in her speech, then the accent would slowly come into line. As for the accent, some people just can't get it ever, so what I look at is can she speak conversationally (bad accent and all). If she could carry on a conversation and it was just the accent, well then she needs a little Eliza Doolittle work in elocution - practice, practice practice.
It has only just dawned on her that without French people will NEVER accept her. Grace had problems with French but she had almost no time to learn it before marrying Rainier. Charlene had 5 years to at least be able to carry on a simple conversation. As said many times here, she should have worked on her education and improving her skills instead of the surface appearance. JMO.
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Post by mrplowfan on Aug 18, 2011 11:45:40 GMT -5
There's an interview with Grace, totally in French when Albert was a toddler. By then she'd been in Monaco less time than Charlene has been - MAYBE 4 years. She spoke it almost perfectly. The video strangely disappeared a year or so ago. It includes Albert saying "Na Na".... Grace actually had a grasp of the French language by the time she arrived. She applied herself to the work. Rainier was so impressed he bragged after she spoke in French to Father Tucker (who teased him that love must be deaf as well as blind). Grace made the effort. As far as Charlene's trashy behavior. It's totally nouveau riche. You can't take the trailer part out of the girl. If you read Taki Theodoracopulos's daughter's online editorial (Mandolyna Theodoracopulos) you can see why the royals think of Monaco and Charlene as trashy. takimag.com/article/a_manners_guide_for_the_nouveau_richetakimag.com/article/a_manners_guide_for_the_nouveau_riche_part_deux
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Post by hibou on Aug 18, 2011 12:41:50 GMT -5
There's an interview with Grace, totally in French when Albert was a toddler. By then she'd been in Monaco less time than Charlene has been - MAYBE 4 years. She spoke it almost perfectly. The video strangely disappeared a year or so ago. It includes Albert saying "Na Na".... Grace actually had a grasp of the French language by the time she arrived. She applied herself to the work. Rainier was so impressed he bragged after she spoke in French to Father Tucker (who teased him that love must be deaf as well as blind). Grace made the effort. As far as Charlene's trashy behavior. It's totally nouveau riche. You can't take the trailer part out of the girl. If you read Taki Theodoracopulos's daughter's online editorial (Mandolyna Theodoracopulos) you can see why the royals think of Monaco and Charlene as trashy. takimag.com/article/a_manners_guide_for_the_nouveau_richetakimag.com/article/a_manners_guide_for_the_nouveau_riche_part_deuxthanks for the info!
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Post by smt on Aug 18, 2011 13:04:14 GMT -5
I've heard better french accent spoken by high school students here in the states. That's all she could muster up after 5 years in Monaco! God, the woman is just DUMB! One other observation -- did her shoulders get wider? Lawdy ... I think the Philadelphia Eagles should sign her as a linebacker! She'd fit right in w/Michael Vick and his crew
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Post by paca on Aug 18, 2011 13:33:11 GMT -5
she can't speak decent English and hold a conversation. Of course she won't be able to ever speak any other language. SHe needs to learn English first. Or better simply learn. Anything.
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Post by paca on Aug 18, 2011 13:42:49 GMT -5
There's an interview with Grace, totally in French when Albert was a toddler. By then she'd been in Monaco less time than Charlene has been - MAYBE 4 years. She spoke it almost perfectly. The video strangely disappeared a year or so ago. It includes Albert saying "Na Na".... Grace actually had a grasp of the French language by the time she arrived. She applied herself to the work. Rainier was so impressed he bragged after she spoke in French to Father Tucker (who teased him that love must be deaf as well as blind). Grace made the effort. As far as Charlene's trashy behavior. It's totally nouveau riche. You can't take the trailer part out of the girl. If you read Taki Theodoracopulos's daughter's online editorial (Mandolyna Theodoracopulos) you can see why the royals think of Monaco and Charlene as trashy. takimag.com/article/a_manners_guide_for_the_nouveau_richetakimag.com/article/a_manners_guide_for_the_nouveau_riche_part_deuxa friend of mine used to work with Grace and he remembered her "sweet American" accent fondly. They spoke French together all the time. I know he is very fussy about how people speak French. A very cultured person.
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Post by refia on Aug 18, 2011 13:56:27 GMT -5
I read now some other articles of Takimag and the comments are so ignorant and disgusting. Eww..
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Post by hibou on Aug 21, 2011 13:14:04 GMT -5
At some point Charlene is going to have to give a speech in French. The question is, how long will it take her to rehearse it and sound like she's actually speaking it? Only now is she starting to practice her French with the only two friends she says she has, it doesn't look promising for her. I think she realizes she screwed up and now people expect her to speak it, and I'm sure, because she is so competitive, it irks her that Kate nailed it in Canada. They were thrilled with her French from what I read. JMO
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