As a multilingual pop star, Bruni intimately feels each language. Photo: AFP
As a multilingual pop star, Carla Bruni intimately feels each language. In her native Italian, she explains, reading a simple menu sounds like poetry but the words can be hard for non-natives to decipher.
French, her main professional language, is wonderful for writers but lacks tonality – “Rr! rr! rr! rr! rr! rr!” she explains for emphasis, exaggerating the Gallic uvulars.
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