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What foreign languages can Marie and Per speak?
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girl7twenty7 said on September 3, 2004 13:49:
*FACTS*
Well, they DO speak English ;)
They don’t speak Spanish.
*?*
What about other languages? Did P&M say anything about?
Probably Per once had been learning French? He used this language few times in the lyrics: ’toujours l’amour’-words in Sleeping Single and ’deja vu’ in June afternoon. Or it were only well-known idioms without any connection to learning French?
BTW I can’t find any other foreign for Per language (not English or French) being used by him.
regn said on September 4, 2004 01:19:
Marie’s able to say ” hello” “we’re happy to be here” in any language... hahhah
kibkalo said on September 4, 2004 08:11:
Yep, I remember her in Moscow, reading “Spasibo, Moskva” (Thanx, Moscow) from her hand :)
AURYTE said on September 4, 2004 08:17:
Oh. yeah. ROXETTE are really capable to say Hello in every language. But I guess, THEY forget those phrases as soon sa THEY out of that country:):):)
kriszta said on September 4, 2004 09:39:
Marie’s husband is Hungarian extraction.So,I think she can few Hungarian words!
animalkingdom said on September 4, 2004 11:00:
To speak a language and say something in a different language are two completely different things!
...English I guess...
Sascha said on September 4, 2004 16:15:
I think they learned german as 2nd foreign language in school. And Per goes for holidays in France frequently, so he’ll speak a bit as well.
daniel_alv said on September 4, 2004 22:26:
I learned spanish as second language in school, but I can’t speak spanish...
I think they only can swedish and english...
LittleGirl78 said on September 4, 2004 22:31:
I´ve read at the swedish biography that Per had german as second language, but he had only a “två” in german, it´s like a D-E in the english marks. ;)
So I think he can maybe a bit understand in german, and he do it, I see it in much german interviews, but I don´t think he can really speak it. :-
Understand a language and know some words in the foreign language, and really speak the foreign language are big different things. ;D
Sparvogamarie said on September 5, 2004 01:28:
Marie can understand a lot of Danish since her dialect (skånsk) is very similar to Danish. But Per finds it hard to understand and sometimes Marie has translated for him in interviews! I heard Per understands a bit of Dutch too. Marie loves to say she can speak Spanish and then say “Un dia sin ti!” but that seems to be all she knows apart from Hola and Grazias!
AURYTE said on September 5, 2004 10:46:
Our Danish lecterer at University said that thos three Scandinavian languages (Swedish, Danish & Norwegian) are quite similar. So ROXETTE should understand at least a bit. Maybe not to speak, however.
Nox1983 said on September 11, 2004 17:28:
im sure Marie speaks spanish, but i dont get why she always said that she coulndt... :-S
after 16 spanish ballads, sung in perfect spanish im pretty sure she speak better than me!
Bunio said on September 11, 2004 20:35:
Nox, you are wrong.
Marie doesn’t speak spanish, even little, but now it isn’t a big problem. 21st century... Hundreds of rehearsals and the cd is ready :)
AURYTE said on September 3, 2004 14:44:
In my opinion, both ROXETTE should understand Danish and Norwegian. Maybe THEY speak a little bit of German???