Emily VanCamp - 50th Monte Carlo TV Festival 2010 speaking French

[brunaara1234]

what did emily said?

[technologywontsaveus]

@brunaara1234 Merci tout les monde pour regardez la series (sorry, but there might be some grammar mistakes ^^). Hehe, I remember the text. :D She said ~Thank you everybody (all the world) for watching the show.

[raymondleeleggs]

lol at Ice T

[patafix1988]

why you can't believe it. I mean it's not that big of a deal for a canadian. there are a bit crazy o'r there you hav' to know ;)

[patafix1988]

do you know if she learned french from beginning. I mean she is Canadian and they're partly french so it wouldn't be that much of a surprise.

[technologywontsaveus]

@patafix1988 Hey! Thank you for your nice comment! ;) Emily is from Canada, she speaks both French and English fluent, French was her first language, I think she learned English later. That is a hard to understand fact for me, can't really beleive it. She's even cuter if the talks French, la langue de l'amour, tu sais. :D

[havah350]

@technologywontsaveus But how could a native French speaking say:" Merci tout le monde pour regarder la télé" instead of "Merci tout le monde d'avoir regardé l'émission" if she meant to say "Thank you everybody for watching the show?" I don't care what her wiki article states: she isn't fluent if she can't even translate that one simple sentence. She was cute though speaking in French.

[technologywontsaveus]

@havah350 Emily is a native French speaker, she's Franco-Canadian, she kinda grew up bilingual with French and English she learned at school I think that was it. Honestly I have no idea, she's not from France, please don't ask me if there are differences between French-French and Canadian-French. And my translation is not perfect, but that's just kinda what she said, not exactly. And she said "serie" not "tele". Yeah, she's very cut speaking French, would love to hear it more often.

[technologywontsaveus]

@technologywontsaveus Thank you for your comment, may I ask how good your french is? Are you a native speaker and do you honestly think that Emily's French isn't like perfect? She actually spoke French in one scene on Everwood, I think it was a deleted scene from the pilot/episode 2, when Ephram had a dream and Emily was in it talking French. Now I'm confused...

[havah350]

@technologywontsaveus French is my mother tongue, I learned English in high school. I said she isn't fluent or at least proficient because she literally translated from English to French: "Thank you everyone FOR watching the show." In French, if you wanna say "Thank for doing something", it's "Merci de +verbe", you don't say "Merci pour". It's something someone raised in a French-speaking household knows because it's one of the most basic grammar rules.

[lheureuxdube]

@havah350 She grew up in Port Perry, Ontario. It's common, especially in small northern Ontario towns for people to grow up speaking French at home, and therefore having a perfect accent or nearly perfect accent like hers, but to speak with many grammar mistakes.

[havah350]

@lheureuxdube Diversité linguistique et grammaticale francophone, quand tu nous tiens!!! Who cares about grammar, anyway;-)?

[technologywontsaveus]

@lheureuxdube Intesting what you right, thanks for that info. It's still weird for me that Emily can speak French but never does, never heard besides one deleted Everwood scene. Now I am relieved.