{"id":378,"date":"2007-05-09T19:33:59","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T18:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/09\/le_pm_parle_le_francais\/"},"modified":"2007-05-09T19:33:59","modified_gmt":"2007-05-09T18:33:59","slug":"le_pm_parle_le_francais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=378","title":{"rendered":"Le PM parle le fran\u00e7ais"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I came across a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P6Cu9187tCY\">video<\/a> on YouTube of Tony Blair congratulating Nicolas Sarkozy, in French, for his victory in the recent French presidential election. I didn&#8217;t know that old Tony could speak any other language other than English, but he seems to speak French pretty fluently, with quite an English accent.<\/p>\n<p>He starts the video with the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bonjour \u00e0 tous. J&#8217;ai d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de me risquer \u00e0 vous adresser ce message en fran\u00e7ais, ce qui est peut-\u00eatre une bien mauvaise id\u00e9e.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This suggests that he isn&#8217;t entirely confident about his French abilities, or maybe he&#8217;s just being modest.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if Tony actually speaks French when on official visits to France or other French-speaking countries. Or does he use interpreters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I came across a video on YouTube of Tony Blair congratulating Nicolas Sarkozy, in French, for his victory in the recent French presidential election. I didn&#8217;t know that old Tony could speak any other language other than English, but he seems to speak French pretty fluently, with quite an English accent. He starts the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-french","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}